Michelle (4 KP) rated American Gods: TV Tie-in in Books
Jan 23, 2018 (Updated Jan 23, 2018)
The Country Set
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Compton Magna and Nether Bagot sit high on the Fosse Hills to either side of the...
My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance
Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
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Written with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Schnayerson, My Song is an inspiring story of...
A Life to Remember: The Life Story of Morella Kayman, Co-founder of the Alzheimer's Society
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Morella Kayman's was destined to be an opera singer until she developed cancer in her twenties. Her...
Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity
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Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It...
The Story of Silence
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A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark...
The Story of My Tits
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"Truly moving. Hayden has created a heartfelt and often hilarious tribute to her life-and to the...
Stormi (105 KP) rated The Plum Tree in Books
Apr 13, 2018
This book was wonderful. It is written in such detail that you can just imagine being there. The characters are real and relatable. Christine and Isaac face so much hardship. Between the stations they hold to the religions they follow, they face such trouble in being together. The determination these two show is inspiring. Christine is followed more than Isaac, and her story is inspiring. The War takes this story to new light. I thought this was going to be a book about romance in hard times. While it was that, it was also a book of survival and hope in in a country ravaged by war. It was a new view on the horrors that the Germans and the Jews faced. Bombings, death, persecution, love, survival, and hope for a better future are all part of this story. This story was truly a marvelous read about a horrible time. This story provides so much emotion that at times I was so happy while others just broke my heart and brought me to tears. This certainly was an emotional read, but that just makes this an even better story. This was a story filled with love, loss, hope, and a world war that changes the lives of so many.
This is the second book I have read by this author and each book is amazing in detail and written in such a way that you can't help but be sucked into the story. I am so glad I was able to review this story for such a talented author.
Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction
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The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction is a detailed overview of the rich history and...
MelanieTheresa (997 KP) rated The Wife Who Knew Too Much in Books
Mar 10, 2020
Rich boy meets middle-class girl at his country club and embarks upon a summer fling that becomes a little more. Rich boy can't bear the thought of giving up his money for the love of the middle-class girl, and so their summer fling is unceremoniously concluded. Some years later, middle-class girl is waitressing when rich boy (now married, still rich, but with his wife's money instead of his grandmother's) pops back up in her life (is this orchestrated somehow, or fate?), and the ride truly begins.
"I'm writing this to raise an alarm in the event of my untimely death. This is hard to admit, even to myself. For obvious reasons. He's in love with someone else. And he wants my money."
Connor's wife, Nina, is a rich widow whose diary entries we are privy to, detailing what she believes to be the plot between her husband and his mistress to kill her and inherit her millions, and this is what immediately sucked me in to the story, because of course I wanted to know if he/they killed her! The author almost manages to make Nina a sympathetic character, but never quite gets there; she's quite unpleasant, but she probably didn't deserve to die.
Tabitha (middle-class girl) can be a semi-annoying character. She makes questionable decisions and justifies them to herself all for her love of Connor (rich boy). Half the time you can almost see the hearts in her eyes. I understand being in love, but being so completely besotted that you disregard some major red flags? That's something else entirely.
And Connor? Well, Connor's kind of a dick, while also being clueless in many ways. As a teen, he "loves" Tabby but gives her up for his grandmother's money. As an adult, he "loves" Tabby but can't quite leave his rich wife just yet. Come ON.
I do have to say that I saw the big reveal coming, so it was a bit predictable in that way, but everything builds to a satisfying conclusion. See for yourself June 9th!
Thank you to St. Martin's Press for the digital ARE!