Title/Author: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See Publisher: Scribner In a nutshell: Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile…
In anticipation for the sequel, #TheDragonReplublic, Jee reads & reviews #ThePoppyWar by #RFKuang @kuangRF #historicalmilitaryfantasy #asianFiction #fantasy @HarperVoyagerUS
Title/Author: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang Publisher: Harper Voyager In a nutshell (Publisher): A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu’s Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy….
Jee’s #bookreview of #WomenTalking by Miriam Toews #BloomsburyUSA #womensfiction #NetGalley #eARC
Title: Women Talking by Miriam Toews Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Verdict: 3/5 Publication day: Apr 2, 2019 In a nutshell (Publisher): One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been…
Jee reviews #BadRomance by @HDemetrios @HenryHolt #YA #abusiverelationship #teenromance
Title/Author: Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios Publisher: Henry Holt In a nutshell (Publisher): Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her…
Jee reviews #HouseOnFire by #BonnieKistler #AtriaBooks #NetGalley #eARC #GeneralFiction #WomensFiction
Title/Author: House on Fire by Bonnie Kistler Publisher: Atria Books In a nutshell (Publisher): Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett knows all too well that most second marriages are doomed to fail. But five years in, she and Pete Conley have a perfectly blended family of her children and his. To celebrate their anniversary, they grab some…
Jee reviews #MotherCountry by #IrinaReyn #Netgalley #StMartinsPress #eARC #WomensFiction
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…
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 #TheIslandofSeaWomen by @Lisa_See #eARC #NetGalley #Scribner #HistoricalFiction #InternationalWomensDay
Title/Author: The Island of Sea Women Publisher: Scribner In a nutshell (Publisher): Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As…
Jee reviews #TheFamiliars by #StaceyHalls #Harlequinn #Netgalley #eARC #historicalFiction
Title/Author: The Familiars by Stacey Halls Publisher: Harlequin – Mira In a nutshell (Publisher): IN 1612 IN LANCASTER, ENGLAND, THE HUNT FOR WITCHES IS RAMPANT… BUT IN A TIME OF SUSPICION AND ACCUSATION, TO BE A WOMAN IS THE GREATEST RISK OF ALL 1612 Pendle Hill Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the…
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