Publisher: Atria Books, March 8, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 320 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): The author of the “unforgettable story of strength, love, and survival” (Jillian Cantor, USA TODAY bestselling author) The Light After the War returns with a sweeping and evocative story of love and purpose in WWII Italy. Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is … Continue reading Book Review: A Girl During the War by Anita Abriel

Publisher: Head of Zeus, March 3, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): When everything you hold dear is torn apart by war, can love put you back together again?It's 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts … Continue reading Book Review: Before the Dawn by Emma Pass

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, March 1, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 272 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. … Continue reading Book Review: One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada, March 1, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 5/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary YA novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents.Lahore, Pakistan. Then.Misbah is a dreamer and … Continue reading Book Review: All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada, February 22nd, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 320 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): A scintillating, gorgeously written historical novel about a mother and a daughter in eighteenth-century France, beginning with decadence and palace intrigue at Versailles and ending in an explosive new era of revolution.During the reign of Louis XV, … Continue reading Book Review: The School of Mirrors by Eva Stachniak

Publisher: Inkyard Press, March 29th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 368 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): Myra Whitlock has a gift. One many would kill for.She’s an artist whose portraits alter people’s real-life bodies, a talent she must hide from those who would kidnap, blackmail, and worse in order to control it. Guarding that secret … Continue reading Book Review: A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. Olsen

Publisher: One More Chapter, February 25th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 490 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): Three sistersThe Great WarThe end of innocence…In 1913, in a quiet corner of London, the three Fry sisters are coming of age, dreaming of all the possibilities the bright future offers. But when war erupts their innocence is … Continue reading Book Review: Love in a Time of War by Adrienne Chinn

Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada, February 15th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 272 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): From National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to the critically acclaimed PET that explores both the importance and cost of social revolution--and how youth lead the way.After a childhood in foster care, Bitter is … Continue reading Book Review: Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

Publisher: Thomas Nelson, February 15th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 320 Rating: 3/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): Savannah Cade is a low-level editor at Pennington Publishing, a prestigious publisher producing only the highest of highbrow titles. And while editing the latest edition of The Anthology of Medieval Didactic Poetry may be her day job, she has two secrets … Continue reading Book Review: Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, March 1 2022 Format: Paperback Pages: 384 Rating: 5/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): For readers of Joanna Goodman and Genevieve Graham comes a masterful debut novel about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the … Continue reading Book Review: Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall