Year 2021 | Good Book Fairy Reviews

The Social Graces by Renee Rosen

by Good Book Fairy | Feb 9, 2021 | Addiction, Favorites, Feminism, Fiction, Friendship, Historical Fiction, Marriage, Motherhood, New York, Year 2021

The Social Graces by Renee Rosen – 400 pages ARC from Berkley Books, Netgally and author for an honest review. Book Blurb: In the glittering world of Manhattan’s upper crust, where wives turn a blind eye to husbands’ infidelities, and women have few...

The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley

by Good Book Fairy | Feb 9, 2021 | Beach Read, Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, East Coast States, Environment/Nature, Fiction, Mental Health, Mystery, Romance, Year 2021

The Invisible Island of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Piper Parrish’s life on Frick Island—a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay—is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one...

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

by Good Book Fairy | Feb 3, 2021 | Beach Read, Body Image, California, Environment/Nature, Family, Favorites, Fiction, Friendship, Historical Fiction, Marriage, Motherhood, Southern Fiction, Suspense, Year 2021

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah ARC from St. Martins Press and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are...

Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 28, 2021 | Abuse, African American or Black, Book Club, Civil War, East Coast States, Favorites, Historical Fiction, Mothers/Daughters, Race, Slavery, Suspense, Year 2021

Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson – 288 pages ARC from Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. But when her birthday finally...

The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 26, 2021 | Adoption - Surrogacy - Pregnancy, Adventure, Beach Read, California, Environment/Nature, Favorites, Fiction, Friendship, Historical Fiction, Marriage, Mental Health, Motherhood, Mystery, San Francisco, Year 2021

The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner – 384 pages ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees...

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 14, 2021 | African American or Black, Book Club, Coming Of Age, Fathers/Sons & Daughters, Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBTQA+, Mothers/Daughters, Music, Race, Year 2021

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson by – 196 pages Book Blurb: Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson’s taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of...