Book Review: The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi

Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, March 28, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 368 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): The final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha’s budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past.Paris, 1974. … Continue reading Book Review: The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi

Book Review: Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, March 28, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 368 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans.Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a … Continue reading Book Review: Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

Book Review: Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt

Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, March 14, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 448 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Set against Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear…Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique … Continue reading Book Review: Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt

Book Review: Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood

Publisher: Harper Collins Canada, March 7, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 432 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): Each spring, Ithaca condemns twelve maidens to the noose. This is the price vengeful Poseidon demands for the lives of Queen Penelope’s twelve maids, hanged and cast into the depths centuries ago.But when that fate comes for Leto, death … Continue reading Book Review: Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood

Book Review: The Lady of the Loch by Elena Collins

Publisher: Boldwood Books, February 23, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 438 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): ‘Although I believe I will die here in this castle, my spirit will never be silent.’Ravenscraig Castle, Scotland. 1307When the castle she works in is sacked by the army of Prince Edward of England, kitchen maid Agnes Fitzgerald manages to … Continue reading Book Review: The Lady of the Loch by Elena Collins

Book Review: The Lost English Girl by Julia Kelly

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada,  March 7, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 416 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): The acclaimed author of The Light Over London weaves an epic saga of love, motherhood, and betrayal set against World War II.Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what’s expected of her: marry a Catholic man … Continue reading Book Review: The Lost English Girl by Julia Kelly

Book Review: Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey

Publisher: Avon Books  February 7, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A steamy new rom-com about a starchy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn...Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family's winery. Now the prodigal hottie … Continue reading Book Review: Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey

Book Review: In the Belly of the Congo by Blaise Ndala

Publisher: St. Martin's Press,  February 7, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 432 Rating: 3/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A sweeping historical novel and an intergenerational family saga about the mysterious disappearance of a Congolese princess and the niece who is determined to uncover her fate more than four decades later, by the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Congolese … Continue reading Book Review: In the Belly of the Congo by Blaise Ndala