[amazon_link id=”0670026611″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Girl You Left Behind Author : Jojo Moyes Genre : Romance Publisher : Pamela Dorman Books Pages : 369 Source : Publisher Rating : 3.5/5 The first half of the novel is Sophie’s story. Sophie is the wife of painter Edouard Lefevre, who has left to fight […]
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Book Review : The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
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Posted in 2013, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, pamela_dorman_books, penguin_books, review, romance, women |
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Book Review : Pastors’ Wives by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen (April 2013)
[amazon_link id=”0452298822″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Pastor’s Wives Author : Lisa Takeuchi Cullen Publisher : Plume Books Genre : Contemporary Fiction Pages : 359 Source : Publisher Rating : 3.5/5 Candace Green, Ginger Green and Ruthie matters are pastors’ wives. Their husbands work for the Greenleaf mega-church. Aaron Green is the senior pastor and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Caretaker by A.X.Ahmad
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Posted in 2013, 3.5_star_rating, books, culture and society, desi, india, netgalley, review, south-asian, st_martins_press, thriller, usa |
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[amazon_link id=”1250016843″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Caretaker Author : A.X.Ahmad Genre : Thriller Publisher : Minotaur Books (St. Martin’s Press) Pages : 304 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Instead of the bookish, intellectual characters that we see in diaspora stories, “The Caretaker” has as its protagonist a desi Jason Bourne like […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book review : The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
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Posted in 2013, 3.5_star_rating, books, culture and society, netgalley, random_house, recommended, review, romance, sci-fi, women |
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[amazon_link id=”0345534050″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Best of All Possible Worlds Author : Karen Lord Genre : Science Fiction/ Romance Publisher : Del Rey Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Pages : 320 Rating : 3.5/5 Karen Lord’s new sci-fi novel is set in the future when humans have colonized new planets. When the planet […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Pretty One by Lucinda Rosenfeld
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Posted in 2013, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, contemporary, little_brown, netgalley, review, women |
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[amazon_link id=”0316213551″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Pretty One Author : Lucinda Rosenfield Genre : Women’s fiction Publisher : Atria Books Pages : 320 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Olympia (Pia) is the middle sister of three. She is the pretty, artsy one. Imperia or Perri is the eldest – the perfectionist […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Rally Around the Corpse by Hy Conrad
[amazon_link id=”0983735042″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Rally Around the Corpse Author : Hy Conrad Genre : Mystery Pages : 348 Publisher : Seven Realms Publishing Source : Author/Virtual Author Book Tours Rating : 3.5/5 Amy Abel and her tenacious mother Fanny, owners of Abel adventures, run a mystery tour, a travel tour with a […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Broken Harbor by Tana French
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Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, crime, mystery, penguin_books, viking_books |
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[amazon_link id=”0670023655″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Broken Harbor Author : Tana French Genre : Mystery/Thriller Publisher : Viking Pages : 450 Source : Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Broken Harbor features Detective Mike “Scorcher” Kennedy, who appeared in a minor role in Faithful Place – French continues to build upon her “connected” people stories. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Somebody to love
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[amazon_link id=”0373776586″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Somebody to love Author : Kristan Higgins Genre : Romance Publisher : Harlequin Pages : 432 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 My one guilty pleasure : romance. I don’t read or review them often enough because one is very much like the other – the hero […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : In a Fix
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Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, fantasy, netgalley, new books, review, tor |
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[amazon_link id=”0765331802″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : In a Fix (Ciel Hannigan Series) Author : Linda Grimes Genre : Fantasy Publisher : Tor Pages : 336 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Ciel Halligan is an “aura adaptor”, a person with the very special ability to morph into someone else. She uses this to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
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Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, bloomsbury, books, culture and society, historical, netgalley, review, women |
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[amazon_link id=”1608198111″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar Author : Suzanne Joinson Genre : Women’s Publisher : Bloomsbury Pages : 384 Rating : 3.5/5 The book has two parallel tracks, each running independently until the later half of the book where we begin to glimpse tenuous links. In the first […]
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