Book Reviews

Rating: 3.0/5 Stars Deepa Anappara’s The Last of Earth is a richly atmospheric historical novel set in 19th-century Tibet, a land shrouded in mystery and closed […]

Rating: 4.0/5 Stars Dawn of the Firebird is a complex fantasy novel about Khamilla Zahr-zads’s life and her trials of having the heavenly magic of nur. […]

Rating: 3.25/5 Stars Filled with conflicting notions of love and hopelessness, compassion and stubbornness, Hello Wife takes us into the struggles of passive, lonely Charlotte, and […]

Rating: 4.4/5 Stars There are so many things I loved about this book! For one, after coming off of two DNF’s for not being able to […]

Rating: 4.0/5 Stars The Phoebe Variations by Jane Hamilton is a character-driven coming-of-age novel that takes place during the 1970’s. Before high school graduation, 17-year-old Phoebe […]

Rating: 3.75/5 Stars The beginning of the novel immediately draws you in since Mrs. Stanford, based on the actual woman, has survived a poisoning attempt. As […]

Rating: 4.2/5 Stars During a stay at the Ara Hotel in Escalante, Frida and her brother Gabriel wake up to find that a fellow guest has […]

Rating: 4.0/5 Stars The Mires, Tina Makereti’s debut novel, deftly articulates realistic struggles of three mothers and their lives in Aotearoa, New Zealand, doing their best […]

Rating: 4.0/5 Stars Stephanie Cowell’s The Man in the Stone Cottage is a beautifully imagined and emotionally resonant portrait of the Brontë sisters, set against the […]