Valencia and Valentine by Suzy Krause

I have not read/reviewed anything in what constitutes a long long time for me. I was visiting relatives with young kids and it was a blast and obviously, I had no time to actually stay cooped up in a corner to read. I did not read anything during my long flights to and fro either…

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Cake by Nicole Brooks

I need to preface the following review with the fact that this was not the book for me. I may seem to be stating this often of late, but I think it counts as a bias that needs to be taken into account when reading a review because it indicates the slant of the review…

The Aunt Who Wouldn’t Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

The book is still available to request as of 28th July 2019 Due to the ways I actually get my hands on books and where I get my recommendations, I rarely read books by Indian authors. When I saw this small book available for request I wanted to give it a try to mend that…

The Seventh Train by Jackie Carreira

There were two topics I wanted to start my review with and both are warring to be the first to be mentioned(in my head), so I thought I could state both and then talk about them in reverse order and whoever reads this can pick which one ought to have come first. 1)The beginning part…

It All Comes Back to You by Beth Duke

The premise of the book has great promise, it is the story of two women separated by more than a generation and a way of life. One is Violet who led a full life with a lot of pitfalls, and the other is Roni who has only had pitfalls and an occasional ray of sunshine.…

The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain

This book was all the rage when I first started blogging, every second person was talking about it and it piqued my curiosity and it was probably in the first batch of books I added to my TBR thanks to other reviews. When I got an opportunity to request the ARC for the latest version,…

A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

  Ann Goldstein (Translator) This is not a book for the faint of heart or people on the lookout for something breezy to read. It is a very short book but packs so much emotion into the pages that it is hard to look away. We meet the girl who was 'returned' in the very beginning,…

Drowning Lessons (Red Frog Beach Mystery #1) by Rachel Neuburger Reynolds

When you read a ton of books a year (a fact for which I will remain eternally grateful) there will always be cases of books both pleasantly and unpleasantly surprising you. When the former happens, it makes your day. This is one such case. I have had this book with me for a while, and…