🌟🌟🌟🌟 “As long as I could return to the library in my mind, I felt I could face whatever came." An engaging historical drama, beginning in 1918, opening the door on a little-known group of women, female volunteers with the American Committee for Devastated France (abbreviated as “CARDs”when translated from…
A sweet story, straddling the line between warm and bubbly contemporary romance, and a tender, heartrending treatise on loss, grief, and finding one’s path through what may feel overwhelmingly insurmountable. Pen (Penelope) Auberge is thirty-two years old, a financial wizard and an avid cyclist, with social skills that leave much…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Darkly themed, this Scottish crime story is brutal, intense, and layered with police procedural details that ring with authenticity. DC Jazzy Solanki, — recently demoted from Sergeant to her new lowly rank on the D-team, has lived through some hard times. Still suffering from the effects of her traumatic…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A haunting saga about growing up different, disconnected and isolated, and the winding journey a life can take in its journey through to rootedness. Diamond, our first-person POV narrator, is a uniquely authentic voice. A young black girl whose narrative age varies from nine or so to sixteen, as…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An excellent thriller unravelling the tale of two young American women, friends for life, and their harrowing trip to Far North Queensland Australia - a trip of a lifetime and one that is also driven by secrets - facts hidden that will in fact come to change the entire…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A snappily paced and absorbing story that weaves around, and eventually nicely connects, the volatile world of several point-of-view characters. First, in Leavenworth Kansas, we meet Ryan, a six-foot-four high-school basketball star, who experiences a terrible crime and the crushing loss of his teen sweetheart, Alison. Five years later,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟A beautifully-written story about being seen - a feeling so addictive and rapturous, once encountered, nothing can stand in its way. And so we meet Tatum Vega, the first person POV narrator of this story, a young Latina woman, living in San Antonio, Texas. A Literature and Fine Arts college…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫A gleefully sociopathic read, featuring Hannah, our first person POV narrator, who is best described as a sort of female Mr Ripley, - as emotive as a lizard, for Hannah is as self-obsessed and calculating as she is stunningly beautiful. Hannah’s curves, her glossy hair, her absolute focus, and her…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fast read with a twisty plot, focusing on a neighborhood populated by a collection of accessible characters, each of them hiding secrets and living a life very different from which it appears. Lena Clarke, a 32 year old business owner, recently betrayed by her partner of eleven years…
🌟🌟🌟💫 A somewhat madcap mystery focusing on young women scorned, misunderstood, and betrayed, - and their search for closure. Focusing mainly on two first person POV heroines, Cass and Anna, each telling their separate story, and expanding to include a troupe of big-hearted down-on-their-luck colorful ladies, whose bbq hotdogs, poolside…