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

Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada,  April 4, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 480 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): A series opener inspired by Arthurian legend and fueled by love, revenge, and pure adrenaline!Tamsin Lark didn’t ask to be a Hollower. As a mortal with no magical talent, she was never meant to break into ancient crypts, or … Continue reading Book Review: Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire, August 1, 2023 Format: ebook Pages: 320 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (Goodreads): From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches and Wild is the Witch comes a lush romantic fantasy about forbidden love, the choices we make, and the pull between duty and desire.Tana Fairchild’s fate has never been in question. Her life has … Continue reading Book Review: Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin