Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s The Tuscan Child
Guilt and the need to escape her own trauma finds Joanna Langley pursuing unrevealed truths about her distant father’s past only to find others prefer the past be left alone.
Genre: fiction
Book Review: Jack Messenger’s Four American Tales
A collection of four short (short!) fictional stories about events in four separate tales of American lives.
Book Review: Beverly Cleary’s Beezus and Ramona
The too active and imaginative Ramona makes it hard for her older sister, Beezus, to feel the love.
Book Review: Christina Lauren’s Dating You / Hating You
It’s bad enough Carter and Evie are competing high-powered agents, but then their firms merge with their boss determined to sabotage Evie, and Carter caught in the middle.
Book Review: Lee Child’s MatchUp
Eleven short stories in a matchup of fiction and thriller writers — a man and a woman pairing — revolving around a blend of the main characters in each pair of authors’ series.
Book Review: Diana Gabaldon’s Seven Stones to Stand or Fall
An anthology of seven short stories in the Outlander / Lord John Gray historical fiction series with an emphasis on the military side with Lord John’s involvement.
Book Review: Sharon Creech’s Ruby Holler
“Trouble twins” Dallas and Florida are orphans who have given up believing there is such a thing as a loving home. Not even Tiller and Sairy can make them believe.
Book Review: A. LaFaye’s Worth
Nate must face the truth of his leg, even as Worth regrets that nickel game — both longing for something they no longer have and finding the resources to face the future .
Book Review: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Deadmen Walking
To catch evil, it takes evil. And the captain and crew of the Sea Witch are deadmen with tales to tell and evil to banish back, back to their hell realms and repair the gates.
Book Review: Louis Sachar’s Small Steps
Two years after Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin. With a record, everyone expects the worst except disabled neighbor Ginnymm as they take small steps on the right path.