Thank you to the lovely people at Doubleday Books for my copy of Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. All thoughts and images are my own.
Title: Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Author: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Genre: Fiction
Pub date: July 31, 2018
Read if you like: stories of badass, very human women, set against a powerfully dramatic backdrop. Continue reading
Thank you to the lovely people at Viking Books for my copy of The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. All thoughts and images are my own.
Title: The Great Believers
Author: Rebecca Makkai
Genre: Literary fiction
Pub date: June 19, 2018
Read if you like: A Little Life, The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Angels in America, The Goldfinch. Continue reading
Title: Euphoria
Author: Lily King
Genre: Historical Fiction
Pub date: June 3, 2014
Read if you like: State of Wonder or love triangles a la The Great Gatsby and Gone With the Wind. Continue reading
Each of the books I read in December, organized by mood. I’ve linked my more in-depth reviews wherever possible! Continue reading
Thank you to the team at Berkley Pub for gifting me this copy of A Most Extraordinary Pursuit by Juliana Gray. All thoughts and images are my own.
Synopsis: (as told by the back of the book)
February 1906. As the personal secretary of the recently departed Duke of Olympia – and a woman of scrupulous character – Miss Emmeline Rose Truelove never expected her duties to involve steaming through the Mediterranean on a private yacht under the prodigal eye of one Lord Silverton, the most charmingly corrupt bachelor in London. But here they are, improperly bound on a quest to find the duke’s enigmatic heir, current whereabouts unknown. Continue reading
Synopsis: (as told by the back of the book)
Winter, 1945. Four teenagers. Four secrets.
Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies… and war. Continue reading