What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Ayoyama ARC from Hanover Square Press for an honest review Book Blurb: “What are you looking for?” This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most...
Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon – Audio ARC from PRH audio, Netgalley and Berkley Romance for an honest review Book Blurb: Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in “ghostwriter” until she attends a signing for a book she wrote—and...
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston – Audio ARC from PRH Audio and Berkley for an honest review Book Blurb: Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: stay busy,...
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donughue – Audio ARC from PRH Audio and Knopf for an honest review Book Blurb: Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon...
The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel – 384 pages ARC from Gallery Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of...
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry – 368 pages ARC from Atria and the author for an honest review Book Blurb: The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry: In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are...
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters is a novel not to be missed. I went into the book completely blind, and it served me well. I still can’t believe this is a debut.When Ruthie, the youngest in a large Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia goes missing, her family is wrought with grief. Joe, one of the protagonists suffers the most as he was the last person with Ruthie. His life is shattered in many ways, both physically and emotionally. Not a day goes by where he doesn’t feel guilt and/or shame for his behavior. We learn early on that Ruthie was taken by a woman unable to hold a pregnancy. She is overprotective to a fault for fears of Ruthie (now Norma) getting hurt or recognized. Norma has dreams that relate to her family, but she was too young at four years old to have any real memories of her earlier family. Norma’s parents completely ignore her dreams by shushing them away.There is a lot of grief in this book, but there is also many lessons about forgiveness and hope. Peters also touches on alcoholism, discrimination, and terminal illness. At its heart, this book centers around the meaning of family, the hope of reunion and the ties that bond one person to another.I will be first in line to pick up Peters next book. The writing was exquisite.@amandapetersauthor #Catapult 📘 Have you ever been berry 🫐🍓 picking? #newbookreview#bookreview#bookreader#TBR #addtoTBR #booklover#bookstagram#goodbookfairy#goodbookfairybookreview ... See MoreSee Less