Pretending by Holly Bourne β 416 pages ARC from Mira Books for an honest review Book Blurb: April is kind, pretty and relatively normalβyet she canβt seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks sheβs found someone to trust, they reveal themselves to be awful,...
The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke β 336 pages ARC from Ballantine Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Concert pianist Diana is finally ready to marry her longtime fiance, Arie; she’s even composing a beautiful love song for him, and finishes it...
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman β 400 pages ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse upon her sister more than two hundred years ago, not one second-born Fontana daughter...
A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne – 465 pagesΒ ARC from Doubleday and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his fatherβs violence in...
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey β 256 pages ARC courtesy of Tor Books for an honest review Book Blurb: Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwellβs award-winning research. Sheβs patient and gentle and obedient. Sheβs everything Evelyn swore sheβd...
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue β 288 pages ARC courtesy Little, Brown and Co. for an honest review Book Blurb: In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who...
Review:The Measure by Nikki Erlick was a book I waited far too long to read. I just couldnβt stomach the idea that everyone in the world would find out their relative life span. The whole idea of this scared me but when my book club chose to read it, I dug in with enthusiasm.Iβm so glad I did. This book is more about life and how we live it, rather than about dying. Itβs told by a cast of eight characters who are deeply affected by the strings they received. The length of the string parallels the length of your life. All the characters are struggling with their results because even if he or she gets a long string, there will still be people they know will be gone soon.How the world at large handles the strings was so well done. People are switching boxes hoping it could change their destiny. Support groups are offered. Protests occur. The world is in a very different place. Much of this book made me think about the differences between fate and destiny. This story offers many intertwined connections between the characters that makes for a powerful and meaningful ending. Iβm so looking forward to whatβs next from this author. @nikkierlick @williammorrowbooks William Morrow π Would you open a box that told you how long your lifespan is?#themeasure #scifilight#bookreader #bookclubpick #goodbookfairy... See MoreSee Less
goodbookfairy Happy PUB DAY!!! Here are a fewhighlights:π Real Americans by @rrrrrrrachelkhong @aaknopf π The Funeral Cryer by @wenyanwritesHanover Square Press π The Demon of Unrest by @erikxlarson #crownbooksπ Happy Medium by @sarahadlerwrites@berkleyromanceπ The Swans of Harlem by @kvalby @pantheonbooks π Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by @jskesliencharles@berkleypubπ Within Arms Reach by @annnapolitano@thedialpressπ Effie Olsen's Summer Special by @rochBerkley Romanceey Romance π: What book would you bring If you were stuck deserted #pubday#pubweeky#happybpubdayp#newbooks#goodbookfairydbookfairy ... See MoreSee Less