Thanks to Bookouture via NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Though I hadn't read the first to novels in this series, I had great hopes for this book based on the description and the positive reviews. Unfortunately, it didn't live up to my expectations. While the basic plot was intriguing - plotting the parents of two kidnapped girls against ...
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Review of “The Secret Chord” by Geraldine Brooks
Having never read Geraldine Brooks, and being rusty at best when it came to the story of David, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to really appreciate this book. Fortunately, the author did such a fantastic job of weaving in all of the relevant back stories and personal histories of the characters that I didn't feel I had to use so much of my brain that the book became less than pleasurable. (I ...
Review of “My Name is Lucy Barton” by Elizabeth Strout
Thanks to Random House for providing me with a free ARC of this book. This is a beautiful, poignant novel about a woman from a highly dysfunctional family. Lucy Barton is in the hospital recovering from complications after an appendectomy. Her mother, who she has not seen in years, flies in to sit at her bedside day and night for five days. As they discuss the unfortunate relationships of some of ...
