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…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 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…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A slowly building story, haunting in its evocative treatment of life on the island of Newfoundland of the 90’s, as seen through the eyes of the twelve-year old son in a multigenerational fishing family. Set in one long and poignant summer in 1991, Pierce, our first person POV narrator,…
🌟🌟🌟💫 A moody look at a troubled marriage in an unsettling and violent environment, the masoleum-like mansion of a family home in Lagos, Nigeria. As Nicole and her husband Tonye, newly immigrated from the UK, struggle to adjust to life in the new country, an atmospheric trail of foreboding follows…
🌟🌟🌟 1/2 An interesting premise, - part competitive cozy-baking tv show, cleverly merged with an Agatha-Christie-like murder mystery. Like the characterizations it is based on, this book has a “folksy niceness”, a clean demarcation of the main players, (each with their idiosyncrasies, secrets, and struggles), and a twisty plot to…
🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 A wildly imaginative ride through the past, and the present, and the silken threads that weave both together, featuring faeries, griffons, unicorns, giants and other creatures as strange and as wonderful as human dreams, hopes and imaginings are able to construct. Once there was a girl named Marjan Dastani,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 What would you sacrifice for love? What would you give for just one more moment with someone who meant everything? A twisty, confusing and absolutely intriguing look at love and loss, narrated by Dr David Asha, supplemented with the journals, writings and diaries of other characters, including the fascinating…