Book Review: The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor

Publisher: Berkley Publishing,  June 13, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent : Alice King is not brave or daring—she’s happiest … Continue reading Book Review: The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor

Book Review: Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada,  April 4, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 280 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring Indigenous identity from the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series.Winifred has lived in the apartment … Continue reading Book Review: Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Book Review: His Majesty’s Airship by S.C. Gwynne

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada,  May 2, 2023 Format: paperback Pages: 320 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a stunning historical tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer … Continue reading Book Review: His Majesty’s Airship by S.C. Gwynne

Book Review: Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

Publisher: Berkley Books, May 2, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 336 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in … Continue reading Book Review: Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

Book Review: Coronation Year by Jennifer Robson

Publisher: William Morrow Books, April 4, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent historical novel—as the lives of three very different residents of London’s historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of … Continue reading Book Review: Coronation Year by Jennifer Robson

Book Review: The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox

Publisher: Harlequin Trade Books, April 4, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 336 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): In post–World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets…With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy … Continue reading Book Review: The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox