Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman β 416 pages ARC from Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when sheβs abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby....
Pretending by Holly Bourne
Pretending by Holly Bourne β 416 pages ARC from Mira Books for an honest review Book Blurb: April is kind, pretty and relatively normalβyet she canβt seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks sheβs found someone to trust, they reveal themselves to be awful,...
The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke
The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke β 336 pages ARC from Ballantine Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Concert pianist Diana is finally ready to marry her longtime fiance, Arie; she's even composing a beautiful love song for him, and finishes it while...
Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard
Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard β 381 pages Book Blurb: When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, heβs a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry...
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman β 400 pages ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse upon her sister more than two hundred years ago, not one second-born Fontana daughter...
A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne
A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne - 465 pagesΒ ARC from Doubleday and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his fatherβs violence in his...
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey β 256 pages ARC courtesy of Tor Books for an honest review Book Blurb: Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwellβs award-winning research. Sheβs patient and gentle and obedient. Sheβs everything Evelyn swore sheβd...
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue β 288 pages ARC courtesy Little, Brown and Co. for an honest review Book Blurb: In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who...
The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Dr. Edith Eger
The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Dr. Edith Eva Eger Book Blurb: Edith Egerβs powerful first bookΒ The ChoiceΒ told the story of her survival in the concentration camps, her escape, healing, and journey to freedom. Oprah Winfrey says, βI will be forever changed...
The Forgotten Daughter by Joanna Goodman
The Forgotten Daughter by Joanna Goodman β416 pages ARC from Harper Paperbacks and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: 1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebecβs fight to gain independence, and wild, beautiful VΓ©ronique Fortin, daughter of a radical...
