REVIEW: Tommy’s world is upended when he has to tell his wife Alexis and daughter CeCe that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. For years, Alexis has been a workaholic and has typically tended to miss important events in the lives of her husband and child. 14-year-old CeCe doesn’t have a lot of affection […]
REVIEW: The Shape of Family is the story of the Olander family’s experiences with grief after tragedy. I have had loss in the not-too-distant past, and that was the main reason that I picked up this book. I’ve moved far enough along in my own process of grief that I felt like I could handle […]
REVIEW: It is crazy to me to think that not long ago, husbands were allowed to commit their wives for mental issues. This is the story of Esther Durrant, who leaves home with her husband thinking they’re going on vacation only to find that he is leaving her at a private and isolated treatment facility […]
REVIEW: I’ve read several books lately where it is just best to start reading without having background info about the story, and I think this is another of those. I’m not going to go over any of the plot because there are other reviews out there where you can find good plot a run-down. What […]
REVIEW: Alice was kidnapped as a child, but her policeman father found her within a day. He then packed up his family and moved them to another town, where he started a different career. Now, Alice works for her father at his business, and he’s super protective of her. In her spare time, she tries […]
REVIEW: I cannot describe how excited I as to read The Hollows after loving The Widows so much. I think I loved this one just a little bit more than the last one, but that’s because I already know these characters pretty well after reading the first book twice. In the previous story, Lily was […]
Review: I just reread this is one sitting! I love historical mysteries, particularly when they feature strong women. The Widows is set in a small coal-mining town in Ohio in the early 1900’s. Lily Ross’ husband Daniel, the sheriff, has been killed and Lily is named acting sheriff until the next election. She is fiercely […]
REVIEW: Jill Shalvis books are so consistently good. Almost Just Friends is the fourth book in the Wildstone Series, but it works perfectly as a standalone. Piper Manning lives alone in the great big house that her grandparents left her after they passed away many years ago, leaving Piper to raise her younger brother and […]
Review I’ve said before that books set out in the American West during the 1800’s are my FAVORITE. This story is set in Wyoming in the 1870’s. There are two families living in proximity to one another in the shadow of the Bighorn Mountains: the Bemis family and the Webber family. There is no one […]
REVIEW: The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul is about Grand Duchess Maria Romanov, who was rumored to have survived and escaped her family’s execution after being imprisoned by the Bolsheviks. I am not very knowledgeable about this period of time in our world history, so I was excited to dive into this dual-timeline narrative. In […]