Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, July 2, 2024 Format: ebook Pages: 327 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in … Continue reading Book Review: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
Tag: historical-fiction
June 2024 Wrap UP
I read 21 books in June, and here’s what I thought of them:-⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️📱Triple Sec*📱Powerless🎧The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna🎧A Sky Beyond the Storm-⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5🎧China🎧The Bone Shard Daughter📱Reckless🎧Daughter of the Moon Goddess📱Hopeless📱Tangled Up In You*-⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️📱All’s Fair in Love and War*🎧The Heiress🎧Girl With a Pearl Earring🎧Warlight📱The Rom-Commers*🎧Sex and Vanity📖The Secret History of Audrey James*🎧Birdsong-⭐️⭐️⭐️.5🎧The Queen’s Rising📱Right … Continue reading June 2024 Wrap UP
Book Review: The Secret History of Audrey James by Heather Marshall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, June 11, 2024 Format: paperback Pages: 432 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a pianist in Berlin on the cusp of WWII and a choice she makes that echoes across generations.Sometimes the best place to hide is … Continue reading Book Review: The Secret History of Audrey James by Heather Marshall
Book Review: All’s Fair in Love and War by Virginia Heath
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, May 28, 2024 Format: ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): A new Regency romp of a series, about governess who believes in cultivating joy in her charges, clashes with the children's uncle who hired her, only to find herself falling in love.When the flighty older sister of former … Continue reading Book Review: All’s Fair in Love and War by Virginia Heath
Book Review: Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, May 7, 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 318 Rating: 3/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman’s World) The Paris Library returns with a brilliant new novel based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France.1918: … Continue reading Book Review: Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade
Book Review: Queen of None by Natania Barron
Publisher: Solaris, May 21, 2024 Format: Ebook Pages: 352 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): First in a sumptuous, female-led Arthurian Fantasy Romance trilogyWhen Anna Pendragon was born, Merlin "Through all the ages, and in the hearts of men, you will be forgotten."Married at twelve, and a mother soon after, Anna - the famed King … Continue reading Book Review: Queen of None by Natania Barron
Book Review: The Paris Network by Siobhan Curham
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, March 26, 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 416 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. ‘You must go to the café and ask at the counter for Pierre Duras. Tell him that I sent you. Tell him you’re there to save the people … Continue reading Book Review: The Paris Network by Siobhan Curham
Book Review: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, May 14, 2024 Format: Ebook Pages: 336 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant novel of love and art, of grief and memory, of confronting the past and facing the future.In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her … Continue reading Book Review: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner
Book Review: The British Booksellers by Kristy Cambron
Publisher: Thomas Nelson, April 9, 2024 Format: Ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): Inspired by real accounts of the Forgotten Blitz bombings, The British Booksellers highlights the courage of those whose lives were forever changed by war—and the stories that bind us in the fight for what matters most.A tenant farmer’s son … Continue reading Book Review: The British Booksellers by Kristy Cambron
Book Review: The Book of Thorns by Hester Fox
Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, April 2, 2024 Format: Ebook Pages: 328 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars and the rise of the floriography craze in Europe, two sisters separated at birth are bound together by a secret language of flowers passed down to them by the mother they … Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Thorns by Hester Fox
