Publisher: Romaunce Books,  September 1, 2023 Format: ebook Rating: 3/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): No longer one of the spoils of war, Catherine, Queen of England and France, resolves to fight for her new life – on her own terms Catherine of Valois, daughter of the defeated king of France, looks down from the battlements as … Continue reading Book Review: The Widow Queen and Her Lover by Alan Gold

Publisher: Atria Books,  August 15, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 272 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): The latest New York Times bestseller from beloved author Alice Hoffman celebrates the enduring magic of books and is a “wonderful story of love and growth” (Stephen King).One June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to … Continue reading Book Review: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, September 5, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children’s team in this smalltown love story in the vein of Ted Lasso and It Happened One Summer —from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love … Continue reading Book Review: The Long Game by Elena Armas

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada,  October 24, 2023 Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Rating: 5/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before … Continue reading Book Review: Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada,  August 29, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 3/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a life-changing journey.Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has … Continue reading Book Review: The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner

Publisher: Little Brown,  August 29, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 336 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. They talk in whispers, not to disturb the maids who lie sleeping on the other side of … Continue reading Book Review: Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue

Publisher: Boldwood Books,  August 10, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 275 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): If Samantha’s Baker’s life were as simple as one of the movies she produces, when she – a latte-loving city girl - gets banished to the country and fights with the local hunk cowboy soon afterwards they’d fall in love.But … Continue reading Book Review: Love to Hate you by Camilla Isey

Publisher: Alcove Press,  August 15, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 285 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Isla Jane is living the millennial nightmare. She’s got a shiny new MBA and no way to pay for it, thanks to her dead-end entry-level job, and nowhere to live, thanks to her miserable salary. Going home to her parents … Continue reading Book Review: Rent to Be by Sonia Hartl

Publisher: Shadow Mountain Publishing,  June 6, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 368 Rating: 5/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A soldier and a young woman, on opposite sides of the revolution, must run for their lives across a war-torn France in this gripping novel of friendship, love, and survival.France, 1794Maxence Étienne, a soldier for the République, believes fiercely … Continue reading Book Review: Along a Breton Shore by Arlem Hawks

Publisher: Thomas Nelson,  August 8, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): The Great War consumes all in its path, but for the assassins at Talon it’s just another day on the job . . . until a new threat rises from the smoke of war-torn Europe to obliterate the world as … Continue reading Book Review: To Free the Stars by J’nell Ciesielski