B- Reviews / Book Reviewsarranged-marriage / author heroine / family relationships / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / RegencyComments Off on REVIEW: The Viscount’s Lady Novelist by Alissa Baxter
Harriet Linfield is a lady novelist who has been disillusioned by love. She sets out to write more realistic tales about the emotion when she returns home to Linfield Court for the summer. Vowing to avoid any romantic entanglements along the way, she focuses instead on her writing and her ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / 1960s / African American women / American historical / domestic abuse / domestic violence / dual-timeline / estranged marriage / family relationships / First-Person / gender-based violence / Historical / journalist / Los Angeles / POC / POC author / police brutality / racism / road novels / road trip / Womens-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: In the Face of the Sun by Denny S. Bryce
At the height of the Civil Rights Movement amidst an America convulsed by the 1960s, a pregnant young woman and her brash, profane aunt embark upon an audacious road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles to confront a decades-old mystery from 1920’s Black Hollywood in this haunting novel of historical ... more >
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This isn’t the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It’s the one where she kills him. Marra never wanted to be a hero. As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an uncaring throne. ... more >
Book Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / divorcee / family relationships / immigrant / Indian American / POC / POC author / Running / Seattle / self discovery / The Sood Family Series / Womens-Fiction2 Comments
She’s always done what was expected of her. Until… When 30-year-old Seattle-based Indian housewife Mira Sood is blindsided by her husband’s extramarital affair, her three-year arranged marriage is shattered. Humiliated, heartbroken, near-broke, and facing the united dissension of her orthodox family, Mira is desperate to rebuild her life. She moves ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsarranged-marriage / calligraphy / Contemporary / dysfunctional family / family relationships / holiday novella / Islam / London / Muslim / novella / POC / POC author / Ramadan / Ramadan Nights series2 Comments
Hafsah Simpson is different from some of the women she knows. She’s not interested in falling into someone arms, just because her parents think she should. Neither is she aching for love. Finding that the men who’ve approached her, have done so because their parents arranged the meeting, she’s fed ... more >
Book Reviews / C ReviewsCon / Contemporary / family relationships / farce / humorous / Italy / Movie / movie-star / older MCs / Small-Town6 Comments
The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming debut novel. Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to ... more >