

Review of The Light After the War by Anita Abriel
Vera and Edith are such a complementary WWII partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young friends.
Jan 11, 2020


Review of The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
Hoffman made me feel anchored to the characters and the emotions, concerns, and life-and-death decisions the three women grappled with....
Jan 4, 2020


Review of Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera
Although the three interconnected women faced sometimes staggeringly tragic challenges, Spera injects moments of joy and wonderful...
Nov 21, 2019


Review of All the Forgivenesses by Elizabeth Hardinger
I loved Bertie! I would very happily read a full Little House in the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life. Oh, I loved this...
Aug 23, 2019


Review of The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The character-driven post-WWII story was wonderful, with compelling and lush detail and a gutsy female pilot determined to help take down...
Jun 29, 2019


Review of The Parting Glass by Gina Marie Guadagnino
There's a love triangle and fantastic details that bring the era1830s to life. The Parting Glass has both substance and lovely lighter...
Apr 5, 2019


Review of A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
I loved this; Fowler strikes a realistic balance between Alva's frivolity and meaningful growth and explores her important role in the...
Mar 16, 2019


Review of A Murder by Any Name by Suzanne M. Wolfe
Wolfe's book was a fun, quick read that kept me engaged the whole way through. The Elizabethan-era detail in A Murder by Any Name was...
Mar 2, 2019


Review of The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker
Hawker brings to life a quiet existence in the German countryside set against a background of the unpredictable violence and destruction...
Feb 4, 2019


Review of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
Bird does an excellent job of keeping up the tension and making clear the high stakes of Williams’s enormous secret in this story, which...
Jan 4, 2019


Review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles
This is character-driven historical fiction at its best.
Jan 26, 2018


Review of The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
This beautiful book broke my heart and I just adored it.
Jan 1, 2018


Review of Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The landscape is vividly evoked, the characters feel faulted and real, and the story is compelling.
Dec 2, 2013
