Book Review
The Other Side of Luck
by Karen Rigby
"The Other Side of Luck" is a charming, adventure-filled fantasy novel centered on a friendship between an alienated royal daughter and the son of a botanical forager. Princess Una’s mother died giving birth to her brother. While Una...
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The Gentleman's Daughter
by Karen Rigby
Sir Henry March, agent to the crown, returns in The Gentleman’s Daughter, Bianca M. Schwarz’s gritty romance sequel set in the 1820s, when Henry encounters unexpected love. Henry is determined to find a respectable bride to ensure...
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My Mistress' Eyes Are Raven Black
by Karen Rigby
In Terry Roberts’s ominous historical novel My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black, Ellis Island’s immigration policies take a bleak post-war turn. In 1920, an Irish immigrant vanishes after being sent to the Isolation Ward. Suspecting...
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The Darlings
by Karen Rigby
Angela Jackson’s "The Darlings" is an eccentric novel set within a contemporary Scottish marriage. Mark is a graying, demoralized, antsy office worker who aspires to work as a comedian. But he feels guilty about his past: he killed his...
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The Third Mrs. Galway
by Karen Rigby
Deirdre Sinnott’s potent historical novel "The Third Mrs. Galway" covers the early abolitionist movement in New York via the story of a multidimensional family. Helen is young when she marries Augustin Galway, an older financier...
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Everything Together
by Karen Rigby
Feeling like a third wheel during the summer, a teenager becomes a volunteer in Benjamin Klas’s Everything Together, a largehearted novel set within an LGBTQ+ family and in Minneapolis’s diverse neighborhoods. In this sequel,...
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A Man of Impeccable Taste
by Karen Rigby
"A Man of Impeccable Taste" is an engrossing mystery novel in which a detective reflects on a past case—and on French cuisine. A philosophical detective leads R. Brooke Jeffrey’s nostalgic mystery novel, "A Man of Impeccable Taste"....
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Trails of the Soul
by Karen Rigby
"Trails of the Soul" is an empowering romance novel about second chances. A divorceé and recent empty nester find renewed purpose on a Colorado vacation in Karen D. Hamilton’s brisk romance novel about healing, "Trails of the Soul"....