Category: All Book Reviews
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Forget Me Knot by B. R. Goodwin: Content Guide
Publication Date: Apr 2025 Blurb: Life is simple and sweet and best enjoyed with twisted, buttery carbs. Or that’s what I tell myself when I relocate to quaint Honey Hill, Georgia and open up my very own pretzel bakery, Knotty & Nice. I may have been skeptical of my sister’s love…
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Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2001 Blurb: On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre…
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Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1956 Blurb: Orual was born ugly and even though she’s a princess, she struggles with the death of her mother and the friction between her sisters. There are two lights in Orual’s life. One is her tutor, the Fox, a Greek slave captured through war. The other…
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Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: The gods sent monsters to the five kingdoms to remind mortals they must kneel. I’ve spent my life kneeling―to their will and to my father’s. As a princess, my only duty is to wear the crown and obey the king. I was never meant to…
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Swimming in a Sea of Stars by Julie Wright: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2023 Blurb: Addison is no stranger to feeling stressed, insecure, and sad. Her therapist recommended she keep a journal to help her understand those feelings better, which she really needs today. It’s her first day back to school, several weeks after she survived her suicide attempt. She…
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Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Blurb: My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up…
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Dune by Frank Herbert: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 1965 Blurb: Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness.…
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My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2018 Blurb: American Ella Durran has had the same plan for her life since she was thirteen: Study at Oxford. At 24, she’s finally made it to England on a Rhodes Scholarship when she’s offered an unbelievable position in a rising political star’s presidential campaign. With the…
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Before Dorothy by Hazel Gaynor: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2015 Blurb: The greatest journey is the one you least expect… Kansas 1932: When news reaches Kansas that her beloved sister has tragically died, Emily Gale must become a mother overnight. Her sister’s orphaned child, Dorothy, desperately needs a home. But Emily doubts her ability to fill…
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The Ivory City by Emily Bain Murphy: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2025 Blurb: The St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904: A miniature city of palaces and pavilions that becomes a backdrop for romance, betrayal—and murder.Cousins Grace and Lillie have been best friends since birth, despite Grace’s vastly inferior social status ever since her mother married for love instead of wealth. When…
