Siblings

Jan 4

Review of Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

In Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro offers characters and consequences that connect through time and in unexpected ways. The loss and...

Nov 10, 2022

Review of The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

I was hooked on the captivating details of Renaissance life, masterfully paced swirling danger and paranoia, and richly developed major...

Oct 4, 2022

Review of The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy

Zusy's Frederick sisters navigate a complicated, stressful situation and drastic changes with plenty of mistakes, forgiveness, and...

Sep 27, 2022

Review of Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

In Nethercott's Thistlefoot, estranged siblings Bellatine and Isaac Yaga find their way back to each other within this odd, dark story...

Sep 22, 2022

Review of Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

Carley Fortune offers a satisfying story of coming home, young love, mistakes and redemption, romance, lake life, and some past and...

Sep 15, 2022

Review of And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgman #1) by Nick Jones

Much of the book involves thwarted attempts to unravel the past by a main protagonist who has been emotionally destroyed by trauma and...

Jul 19, 2022

Review of Upgrade by Blake Crouch

Main protagonist Logan was hard for me to emotionally connect to, but I was hooked by the heart-pounding action, the fascinating imagined...

Jul 14, 2022

Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

The premise of When Women Were Dragons is exquisite, the strong-woman elements are irresistible, and despite what felt like slow pacing...

May 19, 2022

Review of Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

Vaishnavi Patel's debut is a captivating retelling of the Indian epic Ramayana, with immersive details and an irresistible feminist main...

May 3, 2022

Review of Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

In Unlikely Animals, Hartnett's irresistible, oddball tragicomedy with heart, characters explore the limits and solidity of friendship...

Apr 19, 2022

Review of Let's Not Do That Again by Grand Ginder

Much of Ginder's novel is focused on a revenge fantasy, but I was drawn more to Nancy Harrison's strong personality and political...

Mar 10, 2022

Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu

In Marie Lu's young adult dystopian series starter Legend, the Republic and Colonies war with each other, a plague separates the haves...

Feb 9, 2022

Review of Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

Faulkner's debut mystery is twisty and turny, with various potential bad seeds and complications--and it ends in a satisfying whirl of...

Feb 8, 2022

Review of My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan

Hanan's 1980s Irish coming-of-age story is full of angst, secrets, life-and-death danger, youthful determination--and the feeling that...

Jan 12, 2022

Review of Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

Betty is based on the author's family stories of difficulties, abuse, tragedies, and a hardscrabble life in the Appalachian foothills of...

Jan 6, 2022

Review of Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes #1) by Elizabeth Lim

I was captivated by Lim's fairy tale of a fantasy novel, particularly the vivid magical realism, Shiori's strength and abilities, and...

Dec 29, 2021

Review of Landslide by Susan Conley

Conley's book explores a mother's emotional struggle to care for her wild teenage sons and to cope in the wake of her husband's serious...

Dec 24, 2021

Review of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

Robinson's 1971 classic for young readers is a wonderful read-aloud during the Christmas season. "Hey! Unto you a child is born!" We read...

Dec 23, 2021

Review of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

As the young men in The Lincoln Highway face challenge after challenge, they grow, learn, and fight for resolutions to difficult...

Nov 1, 2021

Review of The Best of Me by David Sedaris

This collection of previously published Sedaris works is a gold mine of discomforting, edgy, offbeat observations--with more heart than I...

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