Book Review: Joanne Harris’ The Girl With No Shadow
Blown to Paris, Vianne Rocher has a new identity, a new chocolatarie, and two daughters. Then Zozie de l’Alba blows into their lives with her lollipop shoes and treachery.
Genre: fiction
Book Review: Joanne Harris’ Chocolat
An enchanting novel about a small French town turned upside down by the arrival of a bewitching chocolate confectioner, Vianne Rocher, and her spirited young daughter.
Book Review: Meg Cabot’s Princess in the Spotlight
Just when Mia thought she had the whole princess thing under control, things get out of hand, fast. An unexpected announcement from her mother. Grandmère arranges a national primetime interview. Then intriguing, exasperating letters from a secret admirer begin to arrive.
Book Review: Sophia McDougall’s Romanitas
Ancient Rome never fell and Marcus Novius Faustus Leo is the heir apparent to the Imperial throne, as he flees the same assassins who murdered his parents. Read of his adventures as he meets unexpected people while he searches for the truth.
Book Review: Frances and Richard Lockridge’s A Pinch of Poison
At a swanky rooftop restaurant in New York, a pair of husband-and-wife sleuths must find out who spiked a woman’s drink with murder.
Book Review: John Williams’ Stoner
Meant to study agronomy and return to his farming family, William Stoner falls in love with English literature and the scholar’s life. Yet Stoner endures disappointment after disappointment, driving deeper into himself, confronting an essential solitude.
Book Review: David Weber’s Worlds of Weber: Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington and Other Stories
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Worlds of Weber: Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington and Other Storiesby David WeberIt is part of the Ranks of Bronze, 1632, , , , , , , , , Honorverse, Ring of Fire, Honor Harrington #0.5 series and is a historical fiction, military science fiction in Hardcover edition on September 30, 2008 and has 600 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books in this series include [books_series] Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Mission of Honor, Insurrection, Worlds of Honor, Empire from the Ashes, Changer of Worlds, Torch of Freedom, Hell’s Gate, Hell Hath No Fury, In Fire Forged, In Fury Born, Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, Mission of Honor, By Heresies Distressed, A Rising Thunder, A Mighty Fortress, How Firm a Foundation, Fire Season, Midst Toil and Tribulation, Shadow of Freedom, House of Steel, Beginnings, Like a Mighty Army, Cauldron of Ghosts, Treecat Wars, A Call to Duty, Hell’s Foundations Quiver, At the Sign of Triumph, A Call to Vengeance, Uncompromising Honor, […]
Book Review: Elizabeth Wein’s Code Name Verity
A look back through Verity’s life through an intricately woven confession when the Gestapo captures her when her spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Her Nazi interrogators have given her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.
Book Review: Jennifer McGowan’s Maid of Secrets
Orphan Meg Fellowes makes her living picking pockets—until she steals from the wrong nobleman. Instead of rotting in prison like she expected, she’s whisked away to the court of Queen Elizabeth and pressed into royal service, where she joins four other remarkable girls in the Maids of Honor, the Queen’s secret society of protectors.
Book Review: Hong Ying’s K: The Art of Love
A tragic tale of romance, sexual desire, and untimely death. Julian Bell is hungry for experience while Lin is hungry for a life her husband denies her.