Good Book Fairy | Best Book Reviews by Lauren Margolin

Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen

Mar 29, 2014 | Beach Read, Family, Fiction, Friendship, Magical Realism / Dreams, Year 2014

Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen – 296 pages Book Blurb: Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one memorable...

The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan

Mar 29, 2014 | Art, Historical Fiction, Sisters, Year 2014

The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan – 357 pages Book Blurb: Paris. 1878. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the...

The Enchanted by Rene Denefeld

Mar 29, 2014 | Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism / Dreams, Year 2014

The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld – 224 pages Book Blurb: The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes...

The Orphan Master’s Son

Mar 29, 2014 | Asian, Historical Fiction, Korea, Literary Fiction, Year 2014

The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson – 443 pages Book Blurb: In this epic, critically-acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie,...

The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh

Mar 29, 2014 | Adventure, Family, Favorites, Fiction, Sisters, Year 2014

The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh – 336 pages Book Blurb: After their mother's probable suicide, sisters Olivia and Jazz are figuring out how to move on with their lives. Jazz, logical and forward-thinking, decides to get a new job, but spirited, strong-willed Olivia,...

Thirteen Reasons Why

Mar 29, 2014 | Fiction, YA, Year 2014

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher – 288 pages Book Blurb: Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who...

Perfect

Mar 27, 2014 | England, Fiction, Mystery, Year 2014

Order on Amazon today! Perfect by Rachel Joyce – 400 pages Book Blurb: On a foggy spring morning in 1972, twelve-year-old Byron Hemming and his mother are driving to school in the English countryside. On the way, in a life-changing two seconds, an accident occurs. Or...

My Name Is Resolute by Nancy E. Turner

Mar 17, 2014 | Adventure, Family, Historical Fiction, Year 2014

My Name Is Resolute by Nancy E. Turner - 608 pages Book Blurb: The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica, and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial...

The Pieces We Keep by Kristina McMorris

Feb 23, 2014 | Favorites, Fiction, Historical Fiction, WW2, Year 2014

The Pieces We Keep by Kristina McMorris- 464 pages Book Blurb: Two years have done little to ease veterinarian Audra Hughes’s grief over her husband’s untimely death. Eager for a fresh start, Audra plans to leave Portland for a new job in Philadelphia. Her...

The Midwife Of Venice by Roberta Rich

Feb 21, 2014 | Historical Fiction, Italy, Judaic Themes or Characters, Year 2014

The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich- 352 pages Book Blurb: Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers using her secret birthing spoons. When a count implores her to attend his dying wife and save their...