Code Name Sapphire by Pam Jenoff – 368 pages ARC from Park Row and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: 1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she...
Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner – 288 pages ARC from Flatiron for an honest review Book Blurb: Ana will never forget her mother’s face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar,...
The Apprentice of Buchenwald by Oren Schneider – 195 pages ARC from Amsterdam Publishing for an honest review Book Blurb: Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life...
When We Had Wings by Susan Meissner, Kristina McMorris, Ariel Lawhon – 432 pages ARC from Harper Muse and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: When We Had Wings: The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and...
Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn ARC from Sourcebooks Landmark and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn: At Heim Hochland, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria, three women’s fates are irrevocably intertwined....
The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris – 448 pages ARC from Sourcebook Landmark for an honest review Book Blurb: The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris: As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan’s Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own...
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