Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, January 2, 2024 Format: paperback Pages: 352 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A spellbinding, sweeping novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII—and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: … Continue reading Book Review: The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada, November 28, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 416 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom-com YA debut about love, friendship, and being brave enough to change the course of history.It’s been hundreds of years since King Arthur’s reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, … Continue reading Book Review: Gwen and Art are Not In Love by Lex Croucher
Publisher: Forever Publishing, November 23, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Lady Vesper Lyndhurst is beautiful, clever, and popular. Afforded every luxury as a duke’s daughter, she fills her days with friends, intrigues, and a self-professed knack for matchmaking. She may have sworn off love for herself, but she is rather … Continue reading Book Review: Never Met a Duke Like You by Amalie Howard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, November 21, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 304 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A riveting historical thriller about a Jewish cigarette girl in 1930s New York who finds the soldier who burned down her Russian village years earlier only to be swept up in a political conspiracy on the eve of … Continue reading Book Review: The Jazz Club Spy by Roberta Rich
Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, October 31, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Santiago "Saint" Vega gets a second shot at love with Lola León, but when duty to his family forces him to do something she'll never forgive, will everything he's built come crumbling down?Years ago, Santiago “Saint” Vega walked away … Continue reading Book Review: A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Cana
Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada, July 18, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 336 Rating: 3/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, … Continue reading Book Review: Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, October 3, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 416 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): The discovery of a hidden label on a famous gown unearths the story of a talented young seamstress in this glittering novel of family, love, ambition, and self discovery by the USA Today bestselling author of The Flight Girls.2023, … Continue reading Book Review: The Roaring Days of Zora Lily by Noelle Salazar
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, October 3, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 304 Rating: 3/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): From Julia Kelly, internationally bestselling author of The Last Dance of the Debutante, comes the first in the mysterious and immersive Parisian Orphan series, A Traitor in Whitehall.1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as “The Parisian Orphan” as a child, is working on … Continue reading Book Review: A Traitor in Whitehall by Julia Kelly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, September 26, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 560 Rating: 5/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends comes the second book in the captivating Foul Lady Fortune duology following an immortal assassin in 1930s Shanghai as she races to save her country and her love.Winter … Continue reading Book Review: Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong
Publisher: Atria Books, October 31, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 226 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Millicent Foxboro is haunted.Not by ghosts but by the anguish of her past and the uncertainty of her future. After all, even in the progressive year of 1928, most people would balk at hiring a woman who’d spent two months … Continue reading Book Review: The Cruel Dark by Bea Northwick
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