Clover Blue by Eldonna Edwards โ 352 pages Finished Copy provided by Kensington Books in exchange for an honest review. Book Blurb: There are many things twelve-year-old Clover Blue isn’t sure of: his exact date of birth, his name before he was adopted into the...
The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister โ 320 pages ARC provided by St. Martins and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Book Blurb: Emmeline lives an enchanted childhood on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her...
The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner โ 389 pages Book Blurb: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943–aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on...
Chuckerman Makes A Movie by Francie Arenson Dickman – 317 pages Book Blurb: โThe words of thirty-five-year-old David Melman’s Jewish grandmother still haunt him. He’s scared to settle down. Instead, he dates twenty-something pop stars that he meets...
Beartown by Fredrik Backmanโ 432 pages Book Blurb: People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever-encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working...
The Wildlands by Abby Geniโ 368 pages Book Blurb: When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media...
Review:Mercury by Amy Jo Burns is a story that shows the dysfunction of family in a pretty dysfunctional small town in Pennsylvania. When Marley comes to town with her single mother, she is the one that sets the crux of the book in motion. Her power over the Joseph boys is remarkable and her maturity at this young age was immense. She seemed to be omnipresent at times because she got into all of the Joseph families heads. The authorโs strength is in her multi-layered character building. I felt like a knew each character quite well. I found the discord between Elise and Marley to be incredibly well written. They were the adage of: so close and yet so far.Themes of mental illness, egotistical misogyny, sibling relationships, motherhood, and mystery were all woven through the storyline. Book clubs will get a good discussion out of this one.@burnsamyjo @celadonbooks๐: Do you have any sisters or brothers? #newbookreview#bookreview#bookstagram#bookreader #tbr #addtoTBR #bookreviewer #goodbookfairybookreview #goodbookfairy... See MoreSee Less
Miss your smile. Miss your face. Miss your calls. Miss your laughter. Miss your honesty. Miss you telling me what I needed to hear when I was too fragile to hear it. Miss you telling me the hard truths when I couldn't see straight. Miss not celebrating our birthdays together. I just plain miss you. Enjoy your lemon drop ๐ธ in Heaven. ... See MoreSee Less