Reviewsday: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Everything that is great about 20th century American culture is on display in this novel. Unafraid. Unrelenting. It’s that good. This was my second time around, and I could see myself reading it again in another fifteen years or so. This time I really enjoyed Chief’s narrative focus, and appreciated all the varying depths of […]
Reviewsday: Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact
Loved, loved, loved this second instalment in Alison Goodman’s Dark Days series set in regency England. In The Dark Days Pact Lady Helen learns more about the Dark Days Club and what it means to be a Reclaimer. She has intensive training with Lord Carlston in how to recognise and when necessary fight the Deceivers who […]
Our Tasty Book of The Month: The Chocolate Tin!
Fiona McIntosh’s riveting new novel, The Chocolate Tin, is a story about Alexandra Frobisher, a modern thinking woman who has the hopes and dreams to break free society’s rigid ways, make a career in England’s famous chocolate-making town of York and marry the one she loves. From the battlefields of northern France to her hometown […]
Reviewsday: The Good People by Hannah Kent
I have always considered Hannah Kent as one of my favorite authors. Since reading Burial Rites, I am yet to find another author who can paint a picture in my mind quite like Hannah can. When I heard that she was releasing The Good People I was unsure if she would be able to meet […]