by Stephen Febick | Jun 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories
Set between China and The US over a thirty-year period, My Old Faithful tells the story of one Chinese family and their growth over ten interconnected stories. Author Yang Huang’s debut novel, Living Treasures, told the story of two young lovers in the summer of 1989...
by Seniye Groff | Jun 20, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Jojo Moyes continues the story of Louisa Clark in her latest book, Still Me. Louisa’s constant reminders of Will launch her into her next adventure in New York City. Louisa takes a role as a personal assistant to a super wealthy couple, specifically the wife...
by Addison Fleming | Jun 14, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Pierre-François Chaumont has always considered himself a collector; his favorite destination the auction house across the street from his place of work. When he discovers the pièce de résistance for his collection, a painting with an uncanny resemblance to himself, he...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jun 12, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
As one might imagine about a 2017 Man Booker Prize finalist, Fiona Mozley’s debut novel Elmet is well crafted. The title, as explained in an epigraph by Ted Hughes, Elmet was the last independent Celtic kingdom in England and into the seventeenth century was a hideout...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Jun 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Religious Fiction
In the small town of Henry Adams, Kansas, a historically African-American town owned by a powerful African-American woman, a tornado touched down leaving two young children abandoned and homeless. Gemma Dahl, a white woman with a difficult past, finds them walking...
by Barbara Cothern | Jun 4, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Romance
Nora Stuart was confident that when she left her small Maine home on Scupper Island that she would never return. She was a doctor, had a great boyfriend, and everything in her life was great – or so she told herself. When Nora was hit by a car and overheard her...