The House at Mermaid’s Cove

⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is set in WWII Cornwall England. We discover Alice on a shore having survived a blast on the ship that she was returning from Africa to Dublin in a mission trip. This tragic event she used to her advantage since she had been a nun and no longer wanted to live in…

Seven Crowns ARC

👑👑👑👑👑/5 Seven Crowns ARCRelease date: July 31, 2020 This book hit all the young adult/teen boxes for me! Strong empowered young woman, tough childhood but makes her stronger, love interest but that’s not the story, she has to save something important to the family she didn’t know she had, there’s an elite royal school for the…

Opium and Absinthe

🧛🧛🧛🧛/5 Book ReviewA fast paced, mystery, sleuth, possibly vampiric, gothic novel. I read through this one pretty quickly and enjoyed the world created complete with intense patriarchal structure and substance abuse. Though at the time the substances were over the counter and pushed heavily by certain males to control. I was having a hard time…

Sex and Vanity

Rating: 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Thank you @netgalley and @doubleday for the opportunity to read this book! The cover alone had me drooling and after the success of his past books I was eager to devour this book. Though once I got to Chpt 2 I realized something I recognized this story. I had to Google to be…

Florence Adler Swims Forever

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I absolutely loved this book! The writing style, the characters, the setting, I love historical books. This one is based on a true story from the writer’s own family. I won this on @Goodreads giveaways surprisingly! Thank you @SimonandSchuster!  I loved how each chapter changed POV and also introduced the character while letting…