Reviews and ramblings from my pages…
Powerful and emotional, Golden Child is a novel that stays with you. Thank you so much Beth @ Biblobeth for securing a copy of this novel for me from the publisher. Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, … Continue reading Book Review: Golden Child by Claire Adam
As the summer of 2018 was coming to an end, I decided to live through the summer of 1969. But, I wasn’t alone, Beth @ Bibliobeth joined me, as our September buddy read was The Girls by Emma Cline. Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under … Continue reading Book Review: The Girls by Emma Cline
*Thanks for the free book, @aaknopf; it’s my pleasure to be a part of your monthly book send programme and provide honest reviews for the titles chosen* There's just something so simple, yet stunning, about this cover. And the writing inside is equally as stunning, The Book of Essie is an intelligent and emotional novel. … Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Essie: A Novel by Meghan MacLean Weir
Drawn to the colourful cover and my love of novels set in small-communities, I decided to give The Mothers a go. Sensitive subject warning: this novel deals with issues, such as suicide and abortion, handled with care in this novel but I’m aware these may be topics some readers want to avoid reading about. Set … Continue reading Book Review: The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Us Against You was my most anticipated read of the year, it is the sequel to Beartown (also published as The Scandal). Can a broken town survive a second tragedy? The follow-up to the international bestseller Beartown. Beartown is dying . . . Tucked in a forest in the frozen north, Beartown's residents are tough and … Continue reading Book Review: Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (Beartown #2)
After 5 or so days of no reading, I decided to abandon all review copies and pick up a book I’ve been wanting to read for ages, and I’m so glad I did. It was just the read I needed, and I had so much fun buddy reading it with Eva @ Novel Deelights. Everyone … Continue reading Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Winthrop’s latest novel, The Mercy Seat, publishes June 14th. As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime some believe he … Continue reading Book Review: The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H. Winthrop
