Reviews by Jeanette L. (Marietta, GA)

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Black Widows
Black Widows: A Novel
by Cate Quinn
Black Widows (1/25/2021)
In an arid lonely desert in Utah a man, a polygamist, and his three wives live in a very dilapidated house. When the story begins the man, Blake has been found brutally mutilated.
The story develops slowly as we meet the wives; they are all very different from each other and …more
Patsy
Patsy: A Novel
by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy (5/31/2019)
Patsy is the story of a Jamaican woman who Leaves her family and her 5 years old daughter Trudy-Ann (Tru) and travels to New York to follow the woman she has fallen in love with.
Patsy leaves Tru with her father Roy and Marva his wife; Tru never really adapts to living here, …more
Happiness
Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
by Heather Harpham
Happiness (6/14/2017)
This book is a recompilation of a real part of this author's life making this story more touching and at times more gut-wrenching. When Heather gives birth and holds her baby for the first time, you feel with her the wonder and limitless love one feel for this tiny, perfect …more
If I Forget You
If I Forget You
by Thomas Christopher Greene
If I Forget You (4/27/2016)
This is a beautifully written book about an intense love between two people of two different social classes who are forced apart to find each other again after 20 plus years, in one way it is actually a sad story which shows us even today that the world is full of prejudice …more
The War Reporter
The War Reporter
by Martin Fletcher
The War Reporter (8/8/2015)
Tom Layne is a famous TV Journalist who has in several occasions covered the war in Slovenia, Croatia or Bosnia. This time he is in Sarajevo with Nick his camera man and Nina a local fixer and translator who he always calls. Tom in looking for a big story decides to leave …more
Jade Dragon Mountain
Jade Dragon Mountain
by Elsa Hart
Jade Dragon Mountain (6/29/2015)
The story takes place at the beginning of the eighteen century in Dayan a frontier town in China.

The main character is Li Du a librarian and intellectual, a scholar who has been exiled from Beijing by the Emperor almost 5 years ago. Li Du has been traveling Jade Dragon …more
The Rabbit Back Literature Society
The Rabbit Back Literature Society
by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen
The Rabbit Back Literature Society (11/8/2014)
This is a strange story that left a lot of loose ends and unanswered questions when it finished.

The books in the town's library have some kind of virus that changes the stories in famous books, one of them being Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky but we never really find …more
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
by Nayomi Munaweera
Island of a Thousand mirrors (4/24/2014)
Most of the story takes place in Sri Lanka, an island off the south coast of India. Nayomi Munaweera 's prose is so incredibly beautiful that one can visually be transported to stand under the shade of the mango tree or feel the rolling waves of the ocean under your feet. …more
The Mouse-Proof Kitchen
The Mouse-Proof Kitchen
by Saira Shah
The Mouse Proof Kitchen (6/8/2013)
What a wonderfully human book, it pulls at the heartstrings. This book is about Anna, Tobias and Freya, their new born daughter. Her brain didn't develop properly; she'll be physically and mentally handicapped. It's their journey of coping, learning the everyday …more
The Lion in the Lei Shop
The Lion in the Lei Shop
by Kaye Starbird
The Lion in the Lei Shop (5/19/2013)
This is the story of military families in Hawaii just after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. The book is written from the point of view of the mother April and the daughter Marty who is 5 years old and doesn't really understand the consequences of war and why her …more
The Jericho Deception
The Jericho Deception
by Jeffrey Small
The Jericho Deception (3/6/2013)
This fantastic novel will have your brain working overtime; Jeffrey Small's writing reminds me of Dan Brown with all the intrigue, the thrills and surprising conclusion. This is a compelling story of scientists, modern technology and the search for mystical sensations and …more
The Edge of the Earth
The Edge of the Earth
by Christina Schwarz
The Edge of Earth (10/17/2012)
"Women in the late 1800's were expected to marry at a young age and portray herself as a delicate individual, weak and helpless. Her opinion was not to be expressed publicly, at least not in the presence of men." The protagonist, Trudy, wants more excitement in her life and …more
The Devil in Silver
The Devil in Silver: A Novel
by Victor LaValle
The Devil in Silver (8/15/2012)
The story takes place in New Hyde mental hospital in Queens, NY where Pepper is taken after an altercation with undercover police even thought he does not belong there; Pepper realizes that he is now locked in a mental hospital. The first friendly face that comes to greet …more
The Healing
The Healing: A Novel
by Jonathan Odell
The Healing (1/31/2012)
I read The Healing in two sittings it is a fascinating story of plantation life at the beginning of the Civil War. Granada, a slave newborn child whom the plantation mistress takes from the slave mother to fill-in her grief over the lost of her own child, is raised in the …more
All the Flowers in Shanghai
All the Flowers in Shanghai: A Novel
by Duncan Jepson
All the Flowers in Shanghai by Duncan Jepson (10/13/2011)
The story is told as a letter from Feng, the main character, to the daughter she abandoned at birth, thru flash backs we learn the story of her arranged marriage to the Sang family whose humiliations and cruelty turn Feng into a bitter, revengeful woman. All the flowers in …more
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