Reviews by Leah L. (Lawrence, NY)

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The Lost English Girl
The Lost English Girl
by Julia Kelly
It's all about the choices we make (3/8/2023)
I liked this book. It's well-written with decent character development. As a reader, I grew to care about the characters (and despise others). World War II books abound nowadays yet this offers a different perspective. The war is the setting for a complicated parent/child …more
The Woman Before Wallis
The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal
by Bryn Turnbull
Lots to discuss here (7/21/2020)
This review has several well known sayings because they are all relevant.

First -- Truth is stranger than fiction. Bryn Turnbull's debut novel is an engrossing piece of historical fiction that proves this adage true.

When I was growing up, my late mother talked about Edward, …more
The Paris Diversion
The Paris Diversion: A Novel
by Chris Pavone
Twist followed by twist followed by twist (12/19/2019)
Paris, the City of Lights, is the backdrop to what appears to be extraordinarily well coordinated multi acts of terrorism. But then it’s not. Without giving too much away, this page turner reveals some of the more base sides of people. And that revenge can destroy worlds. …more
Remembrance
Remembrance
by Rita Woods
Layered, textured, engaging (10/16/2019)
Set in 3 different eras, Rita Woods' debut novel is a home run that deals with African American women of assorted ages in situations of flux and peril, including a female slave named Abigial who leaves behind during the revolution in Haiti everyone she loves in order to …more
The Secrets We Kept
The Secrets We Kept: A novel
by Lara Prescott
An interesting slice of history (7/13/2019)
Two stories parallel and intersect one another is this novel about the behind-the-scenes of the epic book-turned-film Dr. Zhivago and the cadre of women in this country who were recruited to be spies. The author admirably works the threads together of different groups of …more
D-Day Girls
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by Sarah Rose
A new and engaging twist to World War II (3/13/2019)
Sarah Rose's D-Day Girls is a worthwhile addition to the tsunami of both fiction and non-fiction about World War II that has proliferated and continues to do so. The war had to be "turned around" and with necessity being the mother of invention, some of the Allies recruited …more
Make Your Home Among Strangers
Make Your Home Among Strangers
by Jennine Capó Crucet
Bogged in detail (5/6/2015)
Reading books is a passion but I was pushed hard on this one. It was bogged down in local detail that detracted from what might have been a more engaging story. For those who read reviews, you know this is not usual.
Three Many Cooks
Three Many Cooks: One Mom, Two Daughters: Their Shared Stories of Food, Faith & Family
by Pam Anderson, Maggy Keet & Sharon Damelio
This is going to be a best seller!!! (2/11/2015)
What a YUMMY, DELECTABLE book. These are three awesome women who are powerful, gentle, funny, self-confident and humble -- And all these qualities at the same time. To top it off, they are all outstanding writers. The themes they cover -- from food to love to marriage to …more
Accidents of Marriage
Accidents of Marriage
by Randy Susan Meyers
Are there really accidents of marriage? (6/9/2014)
Ben's boundless rage careens with Maddy's brain injury so that the top of the Illica marriage is blown off and the foundation of the family is compromised. Clearly, Meyers knows the world of emotional abuse and battered families and brings it into 20-20 vision. While …more
Glitter and Glue
Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
by Kelly Corrigan
Not just another Mommy Dearest memoir (12/23/2013)
I'll admit it up front -- It took me a while to get into this book. In this "selfie" age when memoirs on just about anything proliferate, especially when a 20-something is trying to find herself, I groaned. Yet Kelly Corrigan is not run-of-the-mill. Her worldwide odyssey …more
Safe with Me
Safe with Me
by Amy Hatvany
Grief, abuse, IVF, nurturing, separation....It's a book for the 21st century! (11/13/2013)
Hannah's and Olivia's worlds intersect in what some may call serendipity and others say G-d. Does it matter how? In any event, each woman has made life decisions, journeying different courses yet bonded in a way unfathomed. They and Maddie benefit from the friendship which …more
The Girl You Left Behind
The Girl You Left Behind
by Jojo Moyes
JoJo strikes again! (8/28/2013)
JoJo Moyes has a unfailing gift of creating characters who get under your skin, staying with you long after you finished reading her books. Sophie is a deliciously warm, kindhearted person who goes to all ends to help her family and fellow townsmen during the German …more
Once We Were Brothers
Once We Were Brothers
by Ronald H. Balson
Truth vs. Evil (8/26/2013)
Articulate, intelligent, tenacious, loving and lovable, Holocaust survivor Ben accuses Elliot Rosenzweig, a well known Chicagoan leader, of being a former Nazi officer. According to Ben, his family in Poland gave Elliot, then known as Otto, a home. The Solomons raised, fed …more
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