Reviews by Mary C. (Lewisville, TX)

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Home Sweet Home
by April Smith
Disappointing (12/12/2016)
Idealistic liberal NYC couple and children relocate to conservative North Dakota town in 1950s. The story is created around the Kusek family's personal tragedy in the 1980s which was assumed to be based on past clashes of conservative vs. liberal misunderstandings and themore
Rise: How a House Built a Family
by Cara Brookins
Rebuilding a family (10/6/2016)
I was not sure that "Rise" was the story for me, because of the history of domestic abuse. Rebuilding the life of a family after experiencing domestic abuse and mental illness from a spouse is an overwhelming order. However, this was a story about overcoming and rebuilding.more
Fallen Land
by Taylor Brown
Brilliant Debut Novel! (11/25/2015)
This is an awesome debut novel by Taylor Brown! A Civil War odyssey, Fallen Land takes place in the last year of the war amidst the darkest days in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. The author's writing is spellbinding. Taylor Brown is so descriptive in telling thismore
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