Book Review: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada, August 3rd 2021 Format: ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): For fans of Wilder Girls and Ninth House comes a dark, twisty, atmospheric thriller about a boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past.Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School.Perched in the … Continue reading Book Review: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

Book Review: Radar Girls by Sarah Ackerman

Publisher: Harper Collins Canada and Harlequin Books, July27th 2021 Format: ebook Pages: 368 Rating: 5/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): An extraordinary story inspired by the real Women’s Air Raid Defense, where an unlikely recruit and her sisters-in-arms forge their place in WWII history.Daisy Wilder prefers the company of horses to people, bare feet and salt water … Continue reading Book Review: Radar Girls by Sarah Ackerman

Book Review: Yours Cheerfully by A.J. Pearce

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, August 10th 2021 Format: Paperback Pages: 304 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): London, November 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Henrietta Bird from Woman’s Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake as she takes on the challenge of becoming a young wartime advice columnist. Her relationship with boyfriend … Continue reading Book Review: Yours Cheerfully by A.J. Pearce

Book Review: Don’t Let It Get You Down by Savala Nolan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, July 13th 2021 Format: ebook Pages: 208 Rating: 5/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces—between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.Savala Nolan knows what it means to … Continue reading Book Review: Don’t Let It Get You Down by Savala Nolan

Book Review: Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, July 13th 2021 Format: ebook Pages: 352 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): We had no warning that she’d come back.Hollow’s Edge used to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic neighborhood where neighbors dropped in on neighbors, celebrated graduation and holiday parties together, and looked out for one … Continue reading Book Review: Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda

Book Review: The Queen’s Spy by Clare Marchant

Publisher: Avon Books UK, July 8th 2021 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): A perilous mission. An unforgivable betrayal. A secret lost in time…1584: Elizabeth I rules England. But a dangerous plot is brewing in court, and Mary Queen of Scots will stop at nothing to take her cousin’s throne.There’s only one … Continue reading Book Review: The Queen’s Spy by Clare Marchant

Book Review: Leaving Coy’s Hill by Katherine Sherbrooke

Publisher: Pegasus Books, May 4th, 2021 Format: Hardcover Pages: 352 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): An unforgettable story about the triumphs and travails of a woman unwilling to play by the rules, based on the the remarkable life of pioneering feminist and abolitionist Lucy Stone. Born on a farm in 1818, Lucy Stone dreamt of extraordinary … Continue reading Book Review: Leaving Coy’s Hill by Katherine Sherbrooke

Book Review: The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

Publisher: Avon Books UK, July 8th, 2021 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big … Continue reading Book Review: The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

Book Review: The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

Publisher: Little Brown, June 15 2021 Format: Ebook Pages: 368 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, a profound debut about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever.In the waning days of the … Continue reading Book Review: The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris