These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Cardโ 288 pages ARC provided by Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Stanford Solomon has a shocking, thirty-year-old secret. And itโs about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford Solomon is...
The Summer Country by Lauren Willig – 480 pages Book Blurb: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous merchant clanโmerely a vicarโs daughter, and a reform-minded vicarโs daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the familyโs lucrative shipping...
Chariot on the Mountain by Jack Ford โ 320 pages Finished Copy provided by Kensington for an honest review Book Blurb: Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named...
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird โ 399 pages ARC courtesy of St. Martins Press in exchange for my honest opinion Book Blurb: Though born into bondage on a โmiserable tobacco farmโ in Little Dixie, Missouri, Cathy Williams was never allowed to consider...
Trouble the Water by Jacqueline Friedland โ 353 pages Book Blurb: Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abbyโs parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old...
The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers โ 288 pages Book Blurb: When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husbandโs three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living...
Review:The Measure by Nikki Erlick was a book I waited far too long to read. I just couldnโt 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.Iโm so glad I did. This book is more about life and how we live it, rather than about dying. Itโs 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. Iโm so looking forward to whatโs next from this author. @nikkierlick @williammorrowbooks William Morrow ๐ Would you open a box that told you how long your lifespan is?#themeasure #scifilight#bookreader #bookclubpick #goodbookfairy... See MoreSee Less