NB: This week, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite and our most popular pieces of writing this year. We’ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, sales, and more. We hope you enjoy revisiting our archives, and most of all, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday and a happy new year – with all the very best of reading. … We’re onto the final … Continue reading Best of 2018 Reviews, Part Two!
A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams is $1.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals. This is a historical fiction novel set in New York’s Jazz Age. This book was released earlier this summer and readers loved the sense of place Williams created. It’s also a retelling of an opera, which is pretty cool! However, others found the story a bit underwhelming compared to the jacket copy. It has a 3.6-star rating on Goodreads.
I am not a crier by nature. I follow the much healthier (that’s sarcasm) path of pushing my feelings down deeply inside of me until they eventually swell up, geyser-like, and get all over everyone. I sobbed while reading Against All Odds. I’m talking full-on, mascara smearing, snotty tissue, alone by the light of the Bookmas Tree sobbing. It was wonderful and cathartic, and honestly, I think this is my favorite book of 2017. Here’s what you … Continue reading Against All Odds by Jezz de Silva
