🏘️🏘️🏘️🏘️1/2 Buckeye Patrick Ryan 451 pages Random House Publishing Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org As I have aged, I have found that my patience with character-driven novels has worn thin. I have eschewed many works of literary fiction in favor of psychological suspense, mysteries … Continued
💲💲💲💲 The Great Mann Kyra Davis Lurie Crown Publishing 302 Pages Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org This novel is an unabashed retelling of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which takes place in a wealthy Black community in Los Angeles. I was not … Continued
🎡🎡🎡 The Ivory City Emily Bain Murray 352 pages Union Square & Co. Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org I have to admit that in this case, I was seduced into reading this book by its cover. There is nothing like a bright red book … Continued
📕📕📕📕📕 The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes Chanel Cleeton 352 pages Berkeley Publishing Amazon/Goodreads/Bookshop.org I have been less than enthralled with Ms. Cleeton’s novels recently—until this one. The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes is one of Ms. Cleeton’s best books … Continued
Dragon of Denmark Jennifer Ivy Walker 322 pages Pub: October 5, 2024 🐉🐉🐉🐉 Goodreads | Amazon This was my first Viking read. Other than struggling through the names in my head, I raise my figurative chalice to the author for her … Continued
👑👑👑👑👑 Christmas With the Queen Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb 384 pages William Morrow Paperbacks November 19. 2004 Amazon/Goodreads/Bookshop.org If you are looking for a hardcore Christmas novel, this is not it. This is a fetching cover and there are … Continued
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 The Sunflower House Adriana Allegri 336 pages St. Martin’s Press November 12, 2024 Amazon/Goodreads/Bookshop.org This was a very difficult but important book to have read. Quite honestly, I was seduced by the cover and had I actually read the … Continued
👶👶👶👶 The Twins on the Train Suzanne Goldring 400 pages Bookouture October 30, 2024 Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org This book explores the role of the Quakers during WW II in Kindertransport (transportation of Jewish children out of Germany as the Nazis were rising … Continued
🧙🏻♀️🧙🏻♀️🧙🏻♀️🧙🏻♀️🧙🏻♀️ SILENCE Julia Park Tracey 243 pages Cybilline Press September 24, 2024 Goodreads/Amazon.com Bookshop.org I love historical fiction about the times of the Salem Witch trials and it has been a long time since I have read one. This one … Continued
Embraced by Love Lisa Vanoni 🐴🐴🐴🐴 114 pages Pub: April 27, 2023 WestBow Press Amazon| Goodreads This book was such a delight to read. So, refreshing after what I usually read. I loved the concept of a poker group that studies … Continued