I really enjoyed this mix of mystery, family drama, and love story with a bit of “magick” thrown in. The Moon Girls are taught from a young age that their singular goal in life is to have a daughter — specifically without a husband — and to raise her to follow in the Moon legacy of strength and magick. Elzibeth (Lizzy) Moon wants nothing to do with that life, and leaves for New York, not … Read More “The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis” »
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
This was the second novel I’ve read by Barbara O’Neal, and while I liked When We Believed in Mermaids more, I still enjoyed this one. Set in a small village in Devon, England, four generations of women in one family — Lillian, Poppy, Zoe, and Isabel — try to heal from each other’s actions and flaws, while trying to find Diana, Zoe’s best friend from childhood, who had gone missing. Told in chapters alternating between … Read More “The Lost Girls of Devon by Barbara O’Neal” »
Over and over again, Lake Union Publishing releases books that I really enjoy and want to recommend to others, and The House at Mermaid’s Cove continues this pattern. Set in WWII, Alice washes ashore in Cornwall after her Ireland-bound ship is torpedoed by the Germans. Jack, the lord of the nearby manor rescues her, but doesn’t have completely selfless intentions… Not only is this a slow burning love story, but it’s a story about the … Read More “The House at Mermaid’s Cove by Lindsay Jayne Ashford” »
This was a sweet love story, split between 18-year-old Betty set in 1951 and 84-year-old Boop in modern time. Young Betty lives with her Jewish grandparents at their South Haven resort, where she dreams of being crowned a beauty queen, going to college in NY, and having a successful career as a fashion magazine editor. But life throws her a curveball when she meets and falls in love with the handsome Abe, who could only … Read More “The Last Bathing Beauty by Amy Sue Nathan” »
If you’ve ever seen the movie Sliding Doors, then you already have an idea of how this book will play out, just with a criminal defense attorney as the main character. I really wanted to like this one more than I actually did. Lila Bennett, a wildly successful criminal defense attorney, has a husband who has been depressed for years, a best friend who doesn’t know Lila is sleeping with her husband Sam, and a … Read More “The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke” »