This isn’t really related to the book, but for some reason, I keep getting Kate Morton mixed up with Kate Mosse and that this book is by the same author as Labyrinth (which I thought I had read but apparently not). But anyway, I have learnt my lesson and given how much I enjoyed The… Read More Book Review: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
I don’t know why, but I’ve been seeing Kristin Hannah pop up a fair bit on bookstagram, which made me want to reread her books. Happily, I found out that I own Winter Garden, and happily dove into this. Winter Garden is the story of Meredith, Nina, and their distant mother. After their father, who… Read More Rereading: Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
This is the other book that I received from my bookswap with Jamie (lonelygirlbookclub)! I mentioned that I liked Japanese fiction and she sent me this – a novel by a Singaporean-British author set in Tokyo and inspired by true crime. What’s Left of Me Is Yours is dual-timeline novel. In the past, unhappily-married Rina… Read More Book Review: What’s Left Of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott
The annoying thing about one book having two different titles is that you’ll end up misunderstanding how many library copies there are. I searched for this book under “Darling Rose Gold” and thought that there weren’t many copies available, but then I searched by author name and found it in the library I was visiting!… Read More Book Review: The Recovery of Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
I first heard about this book in mid-2020, when Lila from Hardcover Haven talked about it for her Black and Bookish tag. I’ve never read a North African-inspired fantasy, so I was immediately intrigued and put it on my TBR list. A River of Royal Blood is the story of Evalina, a princess of Myre.… Read More Book Review: A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy
Younger me thought this was an amazing book and older me was a bit scared that my memories were wrong, which is why I didn’t read this book for years (apart from the fact it’s extremely yellowed, another sign of age, this book is not in my Goodreads catalogue, so I don’t even know when… Read More Rereading: Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan