Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Publisher: One World Publication date: March 21, 2023 Length: 240 pages Adelaide Henry left her home and boarded a steamship for Seattle. Leaving the only home that she knew, she didn’t look back. The wagon carrying her to the port moved slowly. The driver was very curious about her destination and her luggage. She had […]

The Space Between: Book 1 of The Space Between Trilogy by Shawn Brink

I received this book to review from the author. Hunter had been having the same horrible dream for the past five nights. He did not want to experience it for the sixth night. According to his dream, he needed to find a hundred-year-old woman in a hundred-year-old store guarding a hundred-year-old door. Why? Could this […]

The House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

Publisher: Flatiron Books Publication Date: 4/4/2023 Pages: 304 pgs. Nineteen-year-old Magnolia just lost her grandmother. Mama Brown was the only stability in her life. Magnolia’s mother, Cherry, became drug-addicted and abandoned her. Mama Brown raised Magnolia and taught her about life. Magnolia helped by working at the local gas station at night. Now that Mama […]

The Drift by C.J. Tudor

Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication Date: January 31, 2023 Length: 352 pages I received this book from the publisher. An outbreak of a deadly disease has ravaged the world. People have gone into hiding. If you need money, you can volunteer to help test cures developed by “The Professor”, the only scientist that seems close to […]

The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

Publisher: Ballantine Publishing Publication Date: May 2, 2023 I received this book from the publisher. In the ocean, we find several islands grouped together. The main island, Prospera, houses most of the citizens. They live in harmony. There are two classes of people, citizens and support staff. The citizens have health monitors embedded in their […]

When The Moon Turns Blue by Pamela Terry

Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication Date: February 21, 2023 Length: 320 pages A well-loved member of the Wesleyan, Georgia community has died. After his funeral, an ice storm hits the town causing power outages. His widow, Marietta, shelters two friends and her sister-in-law from the storm’s aftereffects. As they awaken to their ice-covered town, one thing […]

Loving Miss Bessie by Bryan M. Powell

Publisher: Independently Published Published Date: November 9, 2018 Length: 162 paperback I purchased this book to read for the Rockmart Cultural Arts Center bookclub. Miss Bessie is an elderly woman living alone outside of Albany, Georgia. Wise beyond her years, she guides the residents with wit, humor, and grumpy grace. The new pastor of the […]

Play The Fool by Lina Chern

Publisher: Bantam Publication Date: March 23, 2023 Length: 320 pages I received this book from the publisher. Katie True lacks ambition. She tried to be a professional tarot card reader. That didn’t work. She is floating through a series of entry-level jobs that lead nowhere. Life in the city was expensive so she moved back […]

Livid by Patricia Cornwell

Publication Date: October 25, 2022 Length: 369 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing I received this book from the publisher, Grand Central Publishing. Kay Scarpetta is the Chief Medical Examiner. She is testifying in a contentious, high profile trial when the judge’s sister is discovered dead. As Dr. Scarpetta examines the area where the judge’s sister […]

Clouds Without Water by Garry Harper

Publisher: CWW Publishing Date of Publication: October 12, 2022 Length: 388 pages, paperback I received this book from the publisher. Henry Smith is a widow. Dealing with three children who have lost their mother is difficult. He misses her too. Their son Benji suffers from asthma and his condition appears to be worsening. The only […]