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.…

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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,…

The Paper Bark Tree Mystery (Crown Colony #3) by Ovidia Yu

I have been prescheduling all my blog posts the last week, not by much but by a couple of days. I will be moving on to my second week of holidays and each might be more hectic than the last, so I am staying prepared. This post, however, is going out an hour after my…

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor

I saw this book everywhere when it was first released. I saw rave reviews and my interest was piqued. I do read a lot of historical fiction and this one seemed like something I would enjoy. The best part of the book, something I definitely need to mention up front is the writing. The author…

A Few Right Thinking Men (Rowland Sinclair #1) by Sulari Gentill

I randomly read the book: Gentlemen Formerly Dressed (Rowland Sinclair #5) and enjoyed the concept. It is rare that I pick up a country and a time and social complications that I did not encounter in any earlier books. Rare mostly because I tend to stick to known people and places. When I saw the first book…

One Enchanted Evening by Anton du Beke

I know nothing about the author, but if you follow my blog or even look back at my posts you will notice a preference for interesting historical fiction. Throw in some complicated characters with a lot of baggage and a few people with a heart of gold (and this case great affinity towards dance) and…

The Ghost of Christmas Past by Rhys Bowen

  This book will fall, as many of the following reviews, in the actual library book category. I did not read many library books as I tried to get my NetGalley account in control. I might stroll through it again and mess up my current status of 78% reviewed vs not reviewed status but it…

A Lady’s Guide to Gossip and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery #2) by Dianne Freeman

One of the things I would end up using a time machine for (if I had access to it in my current life), would be to go and pepper those days that I did not feel like posting or ended up posting a bland generic review with fake cheer, with posts that I write on…