Title/Author: Mother Country by Irina Reyn Publisher: St Martin’s Press In a nutshell: Nadia’s daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler’s…
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Jee reviews #TheWolfAndTheWatchman by #NiklasNattochDag @AtriaBooks #Netgalley #eARC #HistoricalFiction
Title/Author: The Wolf and The Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag Publisher: Atria Books In a nutshell (Publisher): One morning in the autumn of 1793, watchman Mikel Cardell is awakened from his drunken slumber with reports of a body seen floating in the Larder, once a pristine lake on Stockholm’s Southern Isle, now a rancid…
Jee reviews #DaughterOfMolokai by #AlanBrennert #Netgalley #eARC #StMartinsPress #HistoricalFiction #MolokaiSequel
Title/Author: Daughter of Molokai Publisher: St Martin’s Press In a nutshell (Publisher): Alan Brennert’s beloved novel Moloka’i, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama―quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa―was forced to give up at birth. The…
Jee’s #bookreview of #TheDreamers by Karen Thompson Walker #RandomHouse #literaryfiction #netgalley #eARC #UNPOPULARopinion
Title: The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker Publisher: Random House Verdict: 3.5/5 Publication date: Jan 15, 2019 In a nutshell (Publisher): One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her…
Jee’s #bookreview of #OnceUponARiver by #DianeSetterfield @DianeSetterfie1 #NetGalley #AtriaBooks #eARC #literaryfiction
Title: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield Publisher: Atria Books Verdict: 5/5 Publication day: Dec 04, 2018 In a nutshell (Publisher): On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on…
Jee’s #bookreview of #WhereTheCrawdadsSing by #DeliaOwens @PutnamBooks
ETitle: Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Publisher: Putnam Books Verdict: 5/5 In a nutshell (Amazon): For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But…
Jee’s #OctWrapUp! #bookblogger #bookreviewer
It’s end of the month, it’s Halloween, and it’s time for a wrap-up! Gonna keep it short and simple because motherhood is taking a lot of my time lately. Yes, we just welcomed a baby boy into our little family of 3, now 4! Busier days ahead.. 😅 (Oh and my Halloween costume this year?…
Jee’s #bookreview of #TheWomanInTheWindow by A. J. Finn #WMmorrowBooks #psychologicalthriller *Warning* #UNPOPULARopinio
Title: The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn Publisher: William Morrow Verdict: 3/5 In a nutshell (Amazon): For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from Fox: a twisty, powerful…
Jee’s #bookreview of #AnAbsolutelyRemarkableThing by Hank Green #PenguinUSA @DuttonBooks #fiction #scifi *WARNING* #UNPOPULARopinion (Please don’t hate me)
Title: A Truly Remarkable Thing by Hank Green Publisher: Penguin USA [Dutton] Verdict: 3/5 In a nutshell (Amazon): In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green—cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow—spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she’s part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have…
Jee’s #bookreview of #InTheHouseInTheDarkOfTheWoods by #LairdHart @littlebrown #NetGalley #eARC #LittleBrownandCo #adultfairytale
A spellbinding read! Find yourself in the deepest, darkest part of the woods, one that’s chilling and eerie. Fly above the clouds in a boat made of human flesh and human bones, with a witch claiming to ‘have a mercy to perform’. Be ready to be enchanted by ‘In The House in the Dark of the Woods’….
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