Good Book Fairy | Best Book Reviews by Lauren Margolin

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...

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

Feb 18, 2014 | Australia, Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Fiction, Friendship, Marriage, Mystery, Romance, Year 2014

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty - 394 pages Book Blurb: Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you...

The Good Lord Bird

Feb 17, 2014 | Civil War, Historical Fiction, Slavery, Year 2014

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride - 432 pages Book Blurb: Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the...

Divergent

Feb 13, 2014 | Adventure, Chicago, Dystopian, Fiction, YA, Year 2014

Divergent by Veronica Roth - 487 pages Book Blurb: In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave),...