Book: The Winter Rose Author: Jennifer Donnelly Genre: Fiction/Historical/Romance Summary: When India Selwyn Jones graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, she is advised to set up her practice in a fashionable neighborhood. Instead, the idealistic India chooses to work ...
Wow this book was perfection. I laughed, held my breath, cried a bit, and cheered. Donnelly did such a wonderful job with this book I can't wait to read more from her. "Stepsister" follows what happens after Cinderella (Ella) is locked away and her two stepsisters remove parts of their feet (Tavi...
I had wanted to read this for some time...and that was just because of the beautiful cover, to be honest! But then I was pleasantly surprised by the story that weaved together historical fiction, mystery, some romance, a little bit of women's lib in a YA book that read really smoothly, and with a ni...
Book: The Tea Rose Author: Jennifer Donnelly Genre: Fiction/19th Century/Romance Summary: East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes...
Wonderfully written. I was very impressed with this book. I've read several other tales of beauty and the beast and this is by far one of the best ones.
~*Full review on The Bent Bookworm!*~“You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you…instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it’s trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.”Feels:Well, to start off with I got a...
Jennifer Donnelly does it again... Well, this is technically her debut YA novel, but not the first one I read so... anyway, semantics!A Northern Light centres around small American country, and Mattie, who's a young woman yearning for more than her farming community can promise her. I liked Mattie a...
Inhaltsangabe London, 1900: Die junge India Selwyn-Jones bewegt sich in den feinsten Kreisen. Bis sie als Ärztin im berüchtigten Viertel Whitechapel zu arbeiten beginnt – und dort in leidenschaftlicher Liebe zu dem gefürchteten Gangsterboss Sid Malone entbrennt… Meine Meinung Was war ich gespannt,...
Josephine Montfort is just your average turn of the century upper crust girl who wants more from life than marrying an wealthy man and churning out children. Following her fathers unexpected death she sets out to find out how her father could have died cleaning a revolver. The more she finds out, w...
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