Tag: Women’s Fiction

Review: A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball.

Review: A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball.

Grade: 4 out of 5 Their husbands were gone, their families were grown, and the future stretched out before them like an unfulfilled promise . . . Tired of always dreaming and never doing, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget make a life-altering decision. Uprooting themselves from their comfortable lives in the suburbs, the three friends buy […]

Review: True Colors by Kristin Hannah

Review: True Colors by Kristin Hannah

The Grey sisters have always been close. After their mother’s death, the girls banded together, becoming best friends. Their stern, disapproving father cares less about his children than about his reputation. To Henry Grey, appearances are everything, and years later, he still demands that his daughters reflect his standing in the community. Winona, the oldest, […]

Review: Love on the Line by Laura Castoro.

Review: Love on the Line by Laura Castoro.

Grade: 4 out of 5 Identity, attitudes, and culture collide as a mother and daughter’s values and backgrounds are challenged by everyone around them in this moving, often humorous, and unforgettable novel from laura castoro. It ain’t easy being biracial and a trust fund baby, but blue-eyed Jesse Morgan is determined to just be herself […]

Review: Hot Flash by Kathy Carmichael.

Review: Hot Flash by Kathy Carmichael.

Hero: Davin WesleyHeroine: Jill Morgan StormGrade: 2.75 out of 5 On Jill Morgan Storm’s fortieth birthday, she declares she is through with love. A conviction well justified, considering her first husband didn’t leave her for another woman; he became one! More recently, her love affair came to a screeching halt when her lover dumped her […]

Guest Review: Pieces of My Sister’s Life by Elizabeth Joy Arnold

Guest Review: Pieces of My Sister’s Life by Elizabeth Joy Arnold

Two sisters who shared everything. One unforgivable moment. Once, Kerry and Eve Barnard did everything together: sailing the Block Island harbor with their father, listening to their neighbor Justin’s magical fairy tales, and all the while longing for their absent mother. They were twin girls arm in arm, secrets entwined between two hearts. Until the […]