I grabbed this book from Edelweiss because the premise was so interesting. What if you could get a do over simply by updating your Facebook status? Although the writing did not flow very well, the story itself started out strong as we are dropped into the hours before the wedding rehearsal dinner. The devastation of […]
Category: Magical Realism
The Weight of Feathers By Anna-Marie McLemore
There is just something so appealing about a story that begins with two families locked in a feud. It’s such an old idea and it resonates with us as humans, almost to the point where the girl and boy gazing at each other from behind the hatred of their families approaches archetypal status. One […]
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender By Leslye Walton
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Author: Leslye Walton Category: Young Adult Publisher: Chronicle Books Release Date: 3-25-14 Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird. In a […]
Lost Lake By Sarah Addison Allen
Lost Lake Author: Sarah Addison Allen Category: Women’s Fiction Publisher: St. Martin’s Release Date: 1-21-14 Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it’s the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one memorable childhood summer at Lost Lake, had […]
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
The Sugar Queen Author: Sarah Addison Allen Genre: Fiction Format: Paperback Publisher: Bantam Release Date: 5-20-08 At the age of 27, Josy lives a life that involves caring for her mother and playing the role of the dutiful daughter of one of the town’s most well known families. When Della Lee Baker appears in her […]
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Author: Aimee Bender Category: Fiction Publisher: Knopf Release Date: 6-1-10 On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can […]
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
The Peach Keeper Author: Sarah Addison Allen Category: Fiction Publisher: Bantam Release Date: 3-22-11 It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s […]