Set in rural North Carolina in the 1950s, 18-year-old Rowen Hart is forced to grow up fast after his father kills himself and his mother has a nervous breakdown. The problem is, Rowen has lived a life of extreme privilege and doesn’t really understand what being an adult means. In the meantime, his mother and her long-time housekeeper Adeline take in 10-year-old Eden, who has been kicked out of her house by her mother after … Read More “Eden by Jamie Lisa Forbes” »
Author: Erin Shanahan
Former in-house book editor turned stay-at-home mom who will hopefully return to the industry some day -- let me know if you hear of any openings -- but for now who reads as much as I can and reviews online, both here and on Instagram (@bookwormerin.) I love books. Reading them. Buying them. Recommending them. I was the kid whose mother had to limit the number of books I could check out from the library each week to the number of books I could physically carry home. Now, I have a husband who enables me, children who love books almost as much as I do, and a bit too much time on my hands, which I fill with reading.I have to admit that I’m reading this series in the wrong order. (Matchmaking for Beginners is on my TBR shelf still.) But after reading this book, I can’t wait to read that one. And I still really liked this one. “Whatever happens, love that.” This is the mantra bequeathed to Marnie — along with a Brooklyn brownstone and a matchmaking business — by Blix, her ex-husband’s late great-aunt. Marnie is 33, in love with … Read More “A Happy Catastrophe by Maddie Dawson” »
Set in Chawton — where Jane Austen lived while writing three of her famous books — right after the second World War, a group of eight people come together to create the Jane Austen Society. The characters have very little in common, but for their love of Jane Austen, but it’s enough for them to create their own community. The first half of the book is slow. Perhaps if I was more in love with … Read More “The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner” »
I’m not 100% sure what I just read, honestly. We start off with an older Carol, who starts off telling us that she killed Frankie and lost their daughter too soon. We also know that Frankie wasn’t such a good guy since she believes he went straight to hell when he died. And we know that everyone is about to find out. The first half of the book goes through Carol’s life as a 16-year-old … Read More “Killing The Girl: A story of murder and redemption” »
Liza, Maggie, and Tricia are the Sweeney Sisters, very different adult sisters dealing with the unexpected death of their father, famous author William Sweeney. While dealing with the memorial and estate, they are shocked to discover they have a fourth sister, Serena, who lived next door while they were growing up and is now an accomplished reporter. Their father not only left a surprise daughter but a contract guaranteeing his publisher a tell-all memoir, which … Read More “The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan” »