Thank you Bonnier Publishing and Netgalley for allowing me to review thus book The story is set in York, just up the road from my home, so I immediately felt at home inside the pages. It felt so magical and I adored the characters too. The book is well written and charming. I adore the cover it look...
Part of me knew that I wouldn't like The Dream as much as I liked The Dress. The other part of me enjoyed this book a lot more than I'd expected to.The Dream is a continuation of The Dress, but it's also a mixing of stories, and a bit of a prequel thrown in for good measure. Not only do we get to co...
Ruby Slippers reminded me very much of a story in lines of The Yellow Wallpaper, or The Awakening - it's not so much a story as it is a study of a psychological disorder. In the case of Ruby Slippers, that would be a dissociative fugue. In a fugue state, a person will forget their previous life, dev...
I absolutely adored this book. I was initially unsure as to whether or not I'd like it - based on the description of the book, it wasn't something I'd usually read. I really only started it because I had gotten it for free, and I was looking for something short to read. Generally, I like my stories ...
It was a free book on Kindle, oh well.
Taking a break from my usual fictional fare, I picked up Jennifer 8. Lee's The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food. Lee frames the story around the curious 2005 Powerball event in which over 100 people won Powerball prizes based on their use of numbers from a Chinese r...
Initially, I was not sure why some people gave poor reviews to this book. However, I did come to understand the point some have said that Lee pretty much ends the book three chapters early. After writing a very nice chapter that brings the book full circle (Chapter 15), the rest of the chapters just...
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