The Mercy by Beverly Lewis is the final installment in The Rose Trilogy, which began with The Thorn and continued in The Judgment. The story centers on Rose Kauffman, a young Amish woman who joined the church at an early age but has not yet married. As The Mercy begins, Rose has ended her engagement…
Category Archives: Fiction
Ellen Hopkins’ Novels in Verse
My sister was reading the Ellen Hopkins YA books about drug addiction (to crystal meth) last year. She said that they were riveting, but wouldn’t let her middle school daughter read them. They were not meant for that audience. Based on my sister’s experience, I accepted review copies of her first (I believe) adult novel…
The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides won the Pulitzer for Middlesex, and 9 years later, he’s back with The Marriage Plot, a character-driven novel with fully fleshed out, if not always likeable, characters. Madeleine Hannah is a pretty English major, about to graduate from Brown, who wrote her senior thesis on the marriage plot that was central in novels…
Wonderland Creek, with Giveaway
Alice Ripley couldn’t be happier. Although she is living during the Great Depression, her father’s job as a minister keeps the family fed and sheltered, and Alice loves her job at the local library. For someone who can’t keep her nose out of a book, life couldn’t be much better. When her boyfriend breaks up…
The Time in Between
The Time in Between is an epic-length novel that follows the life of Sira Quiroga from poor working girl to international spy. The novel opens with Spain on the brink of civil war and Sira as a poor apprentice seamstress, working with her mother in an atelier in Madrid, proper and dull and dating a…
The Distant Hours
I spent many hours with The Distant Hours and enjoyed every minute of it. At 576 pages (and an audio running length of over 22 hours), Kate Morton is not short on words, and in fact, amidst all the positive reviews for her books, there are those who complain about how long-winded she is. Yet…
The Unexpected Miss Bennet, Review and Giveaway
Several years ago, I decided to read Jane Austen’s novels. Over the course of a year, I enjoyed them all. Like many Austen fans, I have a special fondness for the Bennet sisters from Pride and Prejudice. Since first reading this classic, I have reread the book and experienced the story through the BBC movie…
The Woman who Heard Color
The Woman Who Heard Color opens with Laurel, an “art detective” who tracks down artwork missing or stolen, especially under the Nazi regime, meeting with Isabella, a German immigrant whose father was Jewish and whose mother, Laurel suspects, worked with Hitler and his minions to steal artwork from Jewish owners and galleries. Isabella is elderly…
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