Year 2021 | Good Book Fairy Reviews

Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 10, 2021 | Adventure, Beach Read, Feminism, Fiction, Friendship, Historical Fiction, Marriage, Mothers/Daughters, Romance, Year 2021 | 2 comments

Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson ARC from Custom House and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: It’s 1938 and women seeking a quick, no-questions split from their husbands head to the “divorce capital of the world,” Reno, Nevada. There’s one...

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 7, 2021 | Addiction, African, African American or Black, Audio, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mental Health, Mothers/Daughters, Year 2021

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi – Audio Book Blurb: Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted...

The Grace Kelly Dress by Brenda Janowitz

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 6, 2021 | Beach Read, Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mothers/Daughters, Year 2021

The Grace Kelly Dress by Brenda Janowitz Book Blurb: In Paris, 1958, Grace Kelly’s royal wedding dress is still all the rage in fashion circles. Rose, a seamstress at a famous atelier, has just been entrusted with sewing another gown in its image. An orphan, she needs...

Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 4, 2021 | Beach Read, Books About Books, East Coast States, Environment/Nature, Family, Favorites, Friendship, Immigration, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Year 2021

Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton – 336 pages ARC from Forge Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would...

When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson

by Good Book Fairy | Jan 2, 2021 | Australia, Favorites, Friendship, Historical Fiction, Iraq, Motherhood, Political, Suspense, Year 2021

When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson – 400 pages ARC from Kensington for an honest review Book Blurb: At night, in Huda’s fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of...