Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie – 464 pages Book Blurb: Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will...
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Pretending by Holly Bourne
Pretending by Holly Bourne – 416 pages ARC from Mira Books for an honest review Book Blurb: April is kind, pretty and relatively normal—yet she can’t seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks she’s found someone to trust, they reveal themselves to be awful,...
The Forgotten Daughter by Joanna Goodman
The Forgotten Daughter by Joanna Goodman –416 pages ARC from Harper Paperbacks and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: 1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec’s fight to gain independence, and wild, beautiful Véronique Fortin, daughter of a radical...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb – 415 pagesBook Blurb: One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing...
The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
The Last Train to Key West by Channel Cleeton – 320 pages ARC courtesy of Berkley Books and Netgalley for an honest Book Blurb: Everyone journeys to Key West searching for something. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day...
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett – 343 pages Book Blurb: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is...
He Started It by Samantha Downing
He Started It by Samantha Downing – 384 pages ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons—we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather...
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi – 256 pages ARC from Riverhead Books and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at...
Fast Girls by Elise Hooper
Fast Girls by Elise Hooper – 512pages ARC from William Morrow and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago’s Betty Robinson competes as a member of the first-ever women’s delegation in track and field. Destined for further glory, she...
Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West
Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West – 352 pages Book Blurb: When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it’s a devastating loss that leaves...