🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 What, after all, is a storyteller? In this seething exposé, itself the work of a fictional storyteller crafted by a real-life storyteller, “ripping through bone and gristle to the tender bleeding heart”, June Hayward, aka Juniper Song, takes us deep into the “grotesque” world of commercial publishing, from a…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A tension-filled decades-long look at the rawness of need - the things we think, or perhaps are lucky enough to know, we need - to make us whole - and what may be unleashed in our compulsion to find them. Told in the alternating intimate first-person POV voices of…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ Reading this book again (this time for a book club discussion) - the first in the fabulous Three Pines series - eighteen years after my initial read, was a rare and sublime treat. Eighteen books later, this is a series so familiar and delightful to this reader, that, going…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 I love Maeve Binchy’s books, and this latest endearing read from her, completed just before her untimely passing in 2012, is no exception. With all the warmth and charm of the author’s signature style, this book deviates slightly to initially follow our main 3rd-person-POV protagonist, Chicky, for a period…
My second read from this talented author; this is a twisty, sinister story that cannot help but evoke echoes of the atmosphere and tension of the terrible true-life crime story of Gabby Petito. With a spectacularly intimate feel, aided by the first-person POV voice of our main protagonist, Cassie Peters…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ Like slipping into a treasured sweater, this book will wrap you up in layers of emotion, familiarity and warmth, as you come to know, and love, the characters in this book. Sisters Liane, Ilsa, and Fiona, each in their thirties, are the children of Helen, a successful folk-singer of…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 The newest addition to an always wonderful series, this is Book 22 in the Dr Temperance Brennan series. In this edition Tempe finds herself transported from a grim but fairly routine examination of what appears to be a young drowning victim in her Montreal homebase, to assisting in the…
🌟🌟🌟💫 A feminist look at love, empowerment and body image, which has admirable intentions and several thoughtful and appealing elements but did not completely hit the mark for me. Abby is a plus-sized woman who has been treated shamefully by her mother (and likely others) since childhood. This part of…
🌟🌟🌟💫 Are we destined to follow in the footsteps (good or even evil) of our ancestors? An interesting premise, explored by this author, as we meet nine-year-old Kate Harmon, with her very complicated parentage, who happens to be the only witness to a horrific fatal event. An event which may…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fun read - a fantasy-romance-science fiction and perhaps even western mashup - and one that will appeal to both YA and adult lovers of imaginative fiction. Vega, our first person POV narrator, is a seventeen-year-old girl who has spent her entire life living in an isolated and remote…