Adam Unrehearsed by Don FuttermanΒ Finished copy from Getred PR and Wicked Son for an honest reviewΒ Book Blurb: From the moment heβs mugged on the subway home from Bat Day at Yankee Stadium, things go wrong for twelve-year-old Adam Miller. He is in the Special...
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetskyβ 240 pages ARC from Ecco Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Margaret Murphy is a natural-born weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Margaretβs first...
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon β 336 pages ARC from Doubleday, PRH audio and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of...
Banyan Moon by Thao Thai ARC from Mariner books for an honest review Book Blurb: When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since sheβs last seen Minh, Ann has built a...
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis β 368 pages ARC from Dutton for an honest review Book Blurb: New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion is over the moon to have been selected to be one of the Rockettes, Radio City Music Hallβs glamorous precision-dancing troupe....
The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok β 288 pages ARC from William Morrow and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate...
Review:Strangers in the Night by Heather Webb was an intimate introduction to Frank Sinatra and his lifelong love, Ava Gardner. Admittedly, I knew next to nothing about the man or the woman behind their star status. I for sure have heard Frankβs music as my parents were, and still are, fans of his songs.The good news is that by writing in the first person from Frankβs POV and Avaβs POV, the reader is introduced to them in an accessible way. It didnβt matter if youβve been a lifelong fan or not familiar with either of them, we all start the book as equals.I was shocked at the at how fast their relationship could go from cold to hot. The way they could both love and fight with such passion and acrimony was crazy. Yet they always, well almost always, came back to one another.Learning about how they were raised, the struggles they went through, and the allowances given to men (not women) were all addressed throughout the book. Depression, alcoholism, addiction, and infidelity were commonplace in star-studded Hollywood.Fans of movies and old Hollywood will adore this book and folks like me, who knew little to none about Frank and Ava will enjoy it too!Heather Webb, Author @msheatherwebb @williammorrowbooks π What's your favorite song? π#newreview#bookreader #bookreview #goodbookfairybookreview #tbr #AddtoTBR#goodbookfairy... See MoreSee Less