Year 2018 | Good Book Fairy Reviews

The Promise Between Us by Barbara Claypole White

by Good Book Fairy | Feb 12, 2018 | Art, Family, Fiction, Marriage, Mental Health, Year 2018

The Promise Between Us by Barbara Claypole White -384 pages ARC courtesy of author for an honest review. Book Blurb: Metal artist Katie Mack is living a lie. Nine years ago she ran away from her family in Raleigh, North Carolina, consumed by the irrational fear that...

The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 28, 2018 | Beach Read, Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Fiction, Friendship, Marriage, Mental Health, Motherhood, Year 2018

The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth -352 pages Book Blurb: The small suburb of Pleasant Court lives up to its name. It’s the kind of place where everyone knows their neighbours, and children play in the street. Isabelle Heatherington doesn’t fit into...

The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 22, 2018 | Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Family, Favorites, Fiction, Friendship, Year 2018

The Story Of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg – 240 pages Book Blurb: A moving novel about three people who find their way back from loss and loneliness to a different kind of happiness. Arthur, a widow, meets Maddy, a troubled teenage girl who is avoiding school by...

White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 20, 2018 | Asian, Historical Fiction, Korea, Sisters, War, Year 2018

White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht – 320 pages Book Blurb: Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day Hana saves...

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 18, 2018 | Animals, Book Club, California, Family, Favorites, Fiction, Judaic Themes or Characters, LGBTQA+, Literary Fiction, Magic, New York, Sisters/Brothers, Year 2018

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin – 352 pages Book Blurb: If you were told the date of your death, how would it shape your present? It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic...

The Girls In The Picture by Melanie Benjamin

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 16, 2018 | California, Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Friendship, Historical Fiction, Year 2018

The Girls In The Picture by Melanie Benjamin – 368 pages ARC courtesy of Delacorte Press Book Blurb: Hollywood, 1914. Frances Marion, a young writer desperate for a break, meets “America’s Sweetheart,” Mary Pickford, already making a name for herself both on and off...