Book Reviews / C ReviewsFirst-Person / mental health / mental illness / YA / Young-AdultNo Comments
Secrets are con artists: they trick you into letting them out. Sadie loves her rocker boyfriend Henry and her running partner and best friend Lucie, but no one can measure up to her truest love and hero, the dazzling and passionate George. George, her secret. When something goes wrong and ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / Contemporary / England / family relationships / holiday novella / Holley Sisters of Thornthwaite / mental health / novella / religion / shy heroine1 Comments
Welcome to Thornwaite, a quaint village tucked up in England’s beautiful but rainy Lake District… where homecomings happen and surprises are in store for the four Holley sisters… Anna Holley, the third of four sisters, has always felt a little bit forgotten. A family tragedy when she was a child ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsEngland / Historical / mental health / nurse / Paranormal / post WWI / PTSD / retired military / turn of the 20th century / War / Military7 Comments
In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsCalifornia / Contemporary / graduate student / mental health / Turkey / veteranComments Off on REVIEW: Forever a Soldier by Genevieve Turner
A wounded soldier searching for healing… Hank Moreno returned home from combat not quite broken but definitely battered. His job now is to recover from his tour of duty and to keep a hundred-year-old house from falling down around his ears. No one calls, no one visits—just as he likes. ... more >
Letters of Opinionableism / appropriation / genre critique / mental health / representation63 Comments
[themify_box style=”light-yellow rounded ” ]Kris used to review and blog on book related things before RL intervened in big, scary ways. Now she tends to somewhat vaguely hang out on Twitter, comment *very* infrequently on reading matters that pique her interest and talk about her mental health journey on tumblr ... more >
Publishing Newsauthors / copyright / damages / federal law / fraud / harassment / infringement / journalism / mental health / plagiarism / reader expectations / reviews / rumors / sock puppets19 Comments
Update on the STM Plagiarism Case – You may remember Rachel Ann Nunes’s post about being plagiarized and then harassed by the person who allegedly plagiarized her book, A Bid for Love. In this case, plagiarism also amounts to an infringement of copyright. I am so excited to report that ... more >