I know we talk about auto-buy authors a lot around here, and Kristin Harmel is one of those for me. I haven't read all of her books, but I've read enough to know that she does not disappoint. I recently finished her newest book, The Forest of Vanishing Stars (out on July 6). Previously, I've read The Room on Rue Amelie and The Book of Lost Names. All three of these were five-star reads for me. The Forest of Vanishing Stars is one of the most unique WWII historical fiction boo

Words cannot express how excited I was to receive a physical galley of Kelly Rimmer's highly anticipated new release, THE WARSAW ORPHAN. Rimmer's 2019 release, THE THINGS WE CANNOT SAY, was one of my favorite reads of 2020, and I know THE WARSAW ORPHAN will be on my 2021 favorites list. GOODREADS SYNOPSIS In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the G

Happy pub day to the fourth installment of the Cuba series by Chanel Cleeton, The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba! I first fell in love with the Cuba series when the first book, Next Year in Havana, was selected as a Reese's Book Club pick, and I have thoroughly enjoyed how Cleeton makes the characters and setting jump from the page. The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba is no different. GOODREADS SYNOPSIS At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedo