Today, I'm kicking off the blog tour for The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura, and I'm calling on fans of Japanese fiction, or those looking to read some, to read this book! The Woman in the Purple Skirt is being watched. Someone is following her, always perched just out of sight, monitoring … Continue reading Blog Tour | Book Review: The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura
Tag: translated books
Book Review: Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (Beartown #2)
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)
#Nonfiction Book Review: The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception by Emmanuel Carrère
Thank you to Eva @ Novel Deelights for suggesting we buddy reading this book; I'm so glad it wasn't left unread on my shelf because it contains the greatest act of deception I have ever read about in a true crime book! ON THE SATURDAY MORNING OF JANUARY 9, 1993, WHILE JEAN CLAUDE ROMAND WAS … Continue reading #Nonfiction Book Review: The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception by Emmanuel Carrère
Blog Tour | Book Review: Killed by Thomas Enger (Henning Juul #5)
I’m so happy to be sharing my review of Killed on Valentine’s Day; it’s so fitting, don’t you think? Wait, I know what you’re thinking, today is the day to celebrate love, and I am…. I’m celebrating my loved for Killed by sharing my review with you all today. After reading book 4, Cursed, I … Continue reading Blog Tour | Book Review: Killed by Thomas Enger (Henning Juul #5)
Book Review: The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Angel’s Game is the second novel in Zafón’s ‘the Cemetery of Forgotten Books’ quartet. Book Description: In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the … Continue reading Book Review: The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Book Review: The Sinner by Petra Hammesfahr
The Sinner is November’s Criminally Good Book Club pick – with all the hype surrounding the TV series, I was so excited to read this one! Book Description: Cora Bender killed a man on a sunny summer afternoon by the lake and in full view of her family and friends. But why? What could have … Continue reading Book Review: The Sinner by Petra Hammesfahr
Book Review: Marked for Revenge by Emelie Schepp (Jana Berzelius #2)
Marked for Revenge follows Marked for Life in the Jana Berzelius trilogy. Book Description: When a girl overdoses smuggling drugs across the Swedish border, the trail points to the one man Jana Berzelius most wants to destroy. Notorious criminal Danillo Pena knows the truth about Jana’s old identity – and, as one of Sweden’s best-respected … Continue reading Book Review: Marked for Revenge by Emelie Schepp (Jana Berzelius #2)