Showing posts with label ARC-Ballantine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ARC-Ballantine. Show all posts
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Review: Good Dirt (by Charmaine Wilkerson)

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My Rating: 4 stars I really enjoyed Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel Black Cake , which I found to be a very interesting story told in a wa...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Review: The Lost Story (by Meg Shaffer)

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My Rating: 5 stars   I had read Meg Shaffer’s debut The Wishing Game last year and absolutely adored it.   That story was an imaginativ...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Review: Shelterwood (by Lisa Wingate)

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  My Rating: 4 stars I’ve been quite a bit behind on my leisure reading as of late and while I hope to catch back up as soon as possible, th...
Monday, January 1, 2024

Review: The Book of Fire (by Christy Lefteri)

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My Rating: 5 stars Happy New Year!  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and that, like me, you were able to spend some time imme...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Review: The Wishing Game (by Meg Shaffer)

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My Rating:  4.5 stars Meg Shaffer's smart, whimsical, and utterly delightful debut novel  The Wishing Game  is the feel-good story I di...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Review: The Golden Doves (by Martha Hall Kelly)

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 My Rating: 2.5 stars For the second time this month, looks like I am once again an outlier who didn't like a book written by a popular...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Review: Central Places (by Delia Cai)

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My Rating: 4.5 stars It's not often that I come across a book where I'm able to resonate so deeply with the main character that, as ...
Monday, August 15, 2022

Review: Carrie Soto is Back (by Taylor Jenkins Reid)

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My Rating: 4 stars The first Taylor Jenkins Reid book I read was last year's  Malibu Rising.  Overall, it was an entertaining book and ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Review: The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle (by Jennifer Ryan)

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 My Rating:  4 stars This is the third of Jennifer Ryan's novels that I've read and I enjoyed it just as much as I did her previous...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Review: Forbidden City (by Vanessa Hua)

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My Rating:  3.5 stars In her third book (and second novel), journalist Vanessa Hua explores the political history of the years leading up to...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Review: Black Cake (by Charmaine Wilkerson)

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My Rating:  4 stars Charmaine Wilkerson's debut novel  Black Cake  is one of those books where a key component of what makes the story w...
Friday, November 26, 2021

Review: Wish You Were Here (by Jodi Picoult)

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  My Rating: 4.5 stars Jodi Picoult is known for not being afraid to tackle difficult subject matter in her stories, which I definitely ap...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Review: Songbirds (by Christy Lefteri)

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 My Rating: 4 stars Even though it's been nearly two years since I read Christy Lefteri's award-winning second novel  The Beekeepe...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Review: Malibu Rising (by Taylor Jenkins Reid)

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My Rating: 3 stars I've been wanting to read a Taylor Jenkins Reid book for a while now and actually have several of her previous works ...
Sunday, April 4, 2021

Review: Sunflower Sisters (by Martha Hall Kelly)

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My Rating: 4 stars   My family and I moved to a new place recently and with so much there has been to do, both before and after the move, my...