Tag Archives: Book Review

Title: The Woman with the Blue StarAuthor: Pam JenoffPublication: May 4, 2021Publisher: Park Row BooksGenre: Historical FictionPages: 336 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and …

Title: The UnhoneymoonersAuthor: Christina LaurenPublication: May 14, 2019Publisher: Gallery BooksGenre: Comedic Literature, RomancePages: 434 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Her meet-cute with her fiancé …

Title: Just Get HomeAuthor: Bridget FoleyPublication: April 13, 2021Publisher: MIRAGenre: ThrillerPages: 272 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Beegie is riding the bus when the quake hits. The teenager was heading back to her unhappy foster home, but then she’s thrown into a broken world. Roads crumble, storefronts shatter and people run wild. …

Title: The Last Bookshop in LondonAuthor: Madline MartinPublication: April 6, 2021Publisher: Hanover Square PressGenre: Historical FictionPages: 251 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and blackout curtains that she …

Title: In Times of Rain and WarAuthor: Camron WrightPublication: April 6, 2021Publisher: Shadow MountainGenre: Historical FictionPages: 312 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) During World War II, an American soldier encounters a German woman living a secret life in bomb-blighted London. In September of 1940, the Blitz had begun. Like other British civilians, …

Title: The Wedding GameAuthor: Meghan QuinnPublication: March 1, 2021Publisher: MontlakeGenre: RomancePages: 397 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Luna Rossi is a veritable crafting genius—she can bedazzle and bead so hard her Etsy site is one of the hottest in the world. So it’s only natural that Luna would convince her brother and …

Title: Every Last FearAuthor: Alex FinlayPublication: March 2, 2021Publisher: Minotaur BooksGenre: ThrillerPages: 368 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) After a late night of partying, NYU student Matt Pine returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly his entire family—his mom, his dad, his little brother and sister—have been found dead from …

Title: The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)Author: Alyssa SheinmelPublication: March 2, 2021Publisher: Sourcebooks FireGenre: YA FictionPages: 400 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) When Moira Dreyfuss’s parents announce that they’re sending her to an all-girls boarding school deep in the Maine woods, Moira isn’t fooled. She knows her parents are punishing her; she’s …

Title: Midnight in AustenlandAuthor: Shannon HalePublication: September 4, 2012Publisher: BloomsburyGenre: RomancePages: 288 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Charlotte Kinder is in need of true escape when she heads from Ohio to Pembrook Park, a Jane Austen-themed retreat in the British countryside. But as it turns out, this vacation is no time to …