Tag: literary fiction

Book Review: Letters to the Lost

November 26, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Review of: Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary Jess is running away from her abusive boyfriend on an icy night in February in downtown London. When she comes to an abandoned flat, she has no choice but to break in or freeze to death.  Never…

Book Review: The Lake House by Kate Morton

November 9, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Review of: The Lake House by Kate Morton Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery Alice Edevane is an imaginative, budding writer at the tender age of sixteen.  In 1930’s Cornwall, England, she lives with her family on an idyllic estate near the lake until tragedy strikes at a Midsummers Eve party when…

BOOK REVIEW: The Sandcastle Girls

October 24, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Review of: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she is there with one purpose–to use her newly acquired nursing degrees to aid the relief of the Armenian refugees trickling through Syria in the first breakers of the Great War.  She…