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expendablemudge · 5 months

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THE WITCHES AT THE END OF THE WORLD is a supernatural novel set in wintry, beautiful Norway via Sourcebooks Landmark's Chelsea Iversen. Perfect #Booksgiving read: atmospheric, beautifully written revenge story. My #BookRecommendation is here:

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quirkycatsfatstacks · 23 days

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Review: The Resort by Sara Ochs

Author: Sara OchsPublisher: Sourcebooks LandmarkReleased: February 6, 2024Received: Own (BOTM)Find it on Goodreads | BOTM | More BOTM Reviews Summary: Cass has been running from her past for a very long time. Yet she’s finally found a place to call home – where nobody knows her real name – or what she’s accused of doing. So she made a new life on a remote little island in Thailand, and things…

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lilibetbombshell · 24 days

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howdidthatbookend · 29 days

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Ashley Winstead | In My Dreams I Hold A Knife

The Book: In My Dreams I Hold A Knife by Ashley WinsteadPublished August 3, 2021 by Sourcebooks LandmarkDate read: May 5, 2022 The Characters: Jessica ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Buy it on Bookshop.org | Amazon This page contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this site. The Plot (from Goodreads): Six friends.One college…

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bargainsleuthbooks · 5 months

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Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen by Sarah James #BookReview #NetGalley #ARCReview #historicalmystery #LGBTQ #hollywood #Sourcebooks

When a playwright's nemesis, a gossip columnist, is found murdered in the same way as one of her murder mystery plays, all eyes turn to her as a suspect. #lastnightatthehollywoodcanteen #sourcebookslandmark #bookreview #ARCReview #netgalley #bargainsleuth

Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is the Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by those in show business. Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes to rub elbows with the right stars. Maybe then she can get her movie made. But Hollywood proves to be more than tinsel and glamour. When despised…

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#ARC Review #Book Review #Historical Fiction #Historical Mystery #Hollywood #Hollywood Canteen #Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen #Mystery #NetGalley #New Books #Recorded Books Inc #Sarah James #Sourcebooks Landmark

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ispeakbooknerd · 6 months

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Now Available - The Witches at the End of the World by Chelsea Iversen

Now available for purchase! #Books #BookRecommendations #Fiction #Fantasy #HistFic #Witches #MagicalRealism #Bibliophile #Bookish #Reading #BookReviews

Do you believe in magic? Well, I do after reading The Witches at the End of the World, a mystical debut novel by Chelsea Iversen. Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley for making this available for me. My opinions are mine alone. Set between an enchanted forest and a fishing village in 1677 Norway, Iverson’s tale of sisterhood is transportive. Kaija and Minna were young girls when their…

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prose-mortem · 7 months

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Book Review: The Clinic by Cate Quinn

Rating: 3.75 stars rounded up to 4

Meg, who works in a casino as undercover security, finds out that her sister Haley has passed away at The Clinic where she went to receive mental health support. The Clinic helps recovering addicts detox and find their footing again. However, Meg discovers that The Clinic is hiding some big secrets, and that her sister's death is not as straightforward as it seems. Meg decides to check into The Clinic as a patient to find out what happened to her sister. A Hollywood actress with Haley's strong will choosing to commit suicide so randomly just doesn't make sense. As notes warning Meg to get away from The Clinic start appearing in her pockets ,and she is forced to submit to treatments that are… unique… to say the least, Meg realizes that she must hurry to uncover what happened to her sister and what secrets The Clinic is hiding deep inside the premises.

Things I loved about the book:

Exploration of trauma that is relevant to the author's experience. Those stories need to be told. So many people will find comfort in flawed and recovering characters.

Quirky characters that I couldn't quite pin down personality-wise (they kept me guessing)

Murder mystery

Main character's (Meg's) development and growth throughout the story

The setting at The Clinic and all the atmospheric "villain-scientist" vibes

Validation that neurodivergence (ASPD) does not always equate to violence or intrinsic personal corruption

Things I didn't like:

The story really dragged on in the middle and could have been a teeny bit shorter

I have mixed feelings about all the chaos near the end… I love twists, but it was a bit much at times… loved the ending overall though. The common thread of unresolved trauma will most likely speak to many readers.

The Clinic is a worthy thriller if you love institutional deception mysteries! It is so clear that Cate Quinn took her time to really care about her characters and give them each a distinct, yet fluid, personality that evolves and reveals itself throughout the story. This is very character-driven, and I loved it. Thank you to the publishers at NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for sending me an e-ARC for review!

#netgalley #elyrria'sbookreviews #reading recs #bookish #advanced reader copy #sourcebooks landmark #cate quinn #thriller #institutional thriller #book review #the clinic #character driven

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triviareads · 8 months

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ARC Review of Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons

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This is a twist on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet from Rosaline's point of view. Rosaline Capulet is on the precipice of being sent away to a nunnery for good, so she decides to take life by the reins while she can. In doing so, she meets Romeo and has a brief affair with him. But when Romeo's true colors are revealed and he turns his wandering eye on her cousin Juliet, Rosaline has no choice but to stop him.

Review:

So all the sex that takes place in this book is when Rosaline is under the age of 18— I thought this was worth putting out there right off the bat. This is also not a historical romance; it's closer to historical fiction, and really well-written historical fiction at that. The descriptions are lush and lyrical, and you really get a fuller sense of the Verona Shakespeare might have imagined (he was very taken with Italy as a setting, but never visited, according to Natasha's author's note).

I loved the characterization of Rosaline. Rosaline's mother has just died, and she's faced with being sent to a nunnery rather than being married off. For a relatively outspoken and forthright teenager (she's fifteen? or sixteen?), it's a difficult situation to accept, so her decision to take these twelve days before she's sent away and throw caution to the wind totally makes sense. I also really liked her relationship with Juliet as well as Tybalt. Natasha humanized both of them, and even if Rosaline/Tybalt as a concept was a little jarring to read, I was on their side.

What was a little more difficult to read was Romeo's characterization: He is written as a sexual predator. Like sure, he's smooth and charming in a way I never quite got into in Shakespeare's original work, but it did come across here (at first at least), but you read the way he behaves with Rosaline and it's textbook predatory behavior: the love bombing, the manipulations, plying her with alcohol before sex, "forbidding" her from seeing family, promising he'll marry her, etc.. I was shocked when Rosaline described him up close as having a few grey hairs, and I was like, how old is this man??

Romeo's sins don't end there either. His trifling with girls is actually a part of a wider, more horrific conspiracy. And Friar Laurence is involved 😬. By the end of the story, a lot of the events are carried out similarly to the original text, with Rosaline watching it all go down, but she's no longer a passive observer.

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I read Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade and didn't think much of it, but reading Fair Rosaline actually made me revise my stance on a lot of the actions characters in the book took. Now, I'm more inclined to give them some grace because they were teenagers. That too, teenagers facing some very grown-up decisions. Remember, Juliet was going to be betrothed to Count Paris, a much older man, in the original text. No wonder she took the leap with Romeo! Similarly in this book, Rosaline had just lost her mother, and was likely going to be sent to a nunnery for the rest of her life by her father. It actually makes sense she'd meet and sleep with a guy she just met because again, teenagers.

All that being said, it was.... definitely a Choice for Natasha to write Romeo a) as old as he was (we don't know how old he is in the original but he's definitely on the older end of the spectrum here) and b) turn a character that seems fuckboy-ish at worst in the original play into an absolute monster, one who knows exactly what he's doing. It's an interesting interpretation, because it turns a cautionary tale into one with an outright villain and his victims. I'm reserving my judgement on exactly what this sort of interpretation means in the broader context of Romeo and Juliet adaptations as a whole, but by itself, I can't deny it was a pretty great book.

Thank you to Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my review.

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readingwithwrin · 11 months

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Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn | Book Review

Title: Cradles of the Reich Author: Jennifer Coburn Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published Date: October 11, 2022 Genre: Historical Fiction, WWII Source: Library Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Goodreads Summary: Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race. At Heim Hochland, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria, three women’s fates are…

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#3 star #book review #Cradles of the Reich #historical fiction #Jennifer Coburn #sourcebooks landmark #WWII

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whatsheread · 1 year

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Novel Nuggets - November 2022 Releases Part 2

Novel Nuggets – November 2022 Releases Part 2

Well, folks. I did it. By the end of this post, I will be caught up on reviewing the almost eighty books I’ve read since March of this year. I didn’t think it would be possible because whenever I tried to do it at other times this year, something always came up that prevented me from being able to write. Whew. It’s a good feeling. The Choice concludes Nora Roberts’ Dragon Heart Legacy trilogy,…

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jewishbookworld · 2 years

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Shadows of Berlin by David R. Gillham

A captivating novel of a Berlin girl on the run from the guilt of her past and the boy from Brooklyn who loves her 1955 in New York City: the city of instant coffee, bagels at Katz’s Deli, ultra-modern TVs. But in the Perlman’s walk-up in Chelsea, the past is as close as the present. Rachel came to Manhattan in a wave of displaced Jews who managed to survive the horrors of war. Her Uncle Fritz…

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#David R. Gillham #Jewish Book Council #Sourcebooks Landmark

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expendablemudge · 5 months

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THE WITCHES AT THE END OF THE WORLD is a supernatural novel set in wintry, beautiful Norway via Sourcebooks Landmark's Chelsea Iversen. Perfect #Booksgiving read: atmospheric, beautifully written revenge story. My #BookRecommendation is here:

#book blog #book review #book tumblr #booksgiving #sourcebooks landmark #norse fantasy #gift ideas #christmas gift #supernatural #revenge story

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quirkycatsfatstacks · 1 year

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Review: The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

Author: Julie ClarkPublisher: Sourcebooks LandmarkReleased: June 21, 2022Received: Own (BOTM)Warnings: Drugging, Sexual assault I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I love that BOTM convinces me to buy books that I might have otherwise overlooked or missed out on. The latest example of this is The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark. I had no idea it was released this month, so I was happy to snag…

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#Book #Book of the Month #Book Review #Books #BOTM #Fiction #Julie Clark #Literature #Review #Sourcebooks Landmark #The Lies I Tell #The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

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lilibetbombshell · 2 months

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bookdivareads · 2 years

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Book Spotlight: THE BOOK WOMAN'S DAUGHTER by Kim Michele Richardson

Today's book spotlight shines on the long-awaited sequel to THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK, THE BOOK WOMAN'S DAUGHTER by @kybookwoman, published by @Soucebooks, releasing 05/03/2022. #recommendedread #recommendedseries #fiction #historicalfiction

The Book Woman’s Daughter, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek #2, by Kim Michele RichardsonISBN: 9781728242590 (paperback)ISBN: 9781728252995 (hardcover)ISBN: 9781728242606 (ebook)ISBN: 9781665066594 (digital audiobook)ASIN: B09HY61WGX (Audible audiobook)ASIN: B09DTLD7DK (Kindle edition)Publisher: Sourcebooks LandmarksRelease Date: May 3, 2022Genre: Historical Fiction | Southern…

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bargainsleuthbooks · 9 months

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#ARCReview #ThePresidentsWife #TraceyEnersonWood #NetGalley #BookReview #EdithWilson #WoodrowWilson #HistoricalFiction #August2023Books #SourcebooksLandmark

A forthcoming book examines the role #EdithWilson played in her husband, Woodrow's presidency. It's a fascinating look at the woman some say was the first female president! #ThePresidentsWife #TraceyEnersonWood #NetGalley #BookReview #WoodrowWilson

Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she’s determined to rise to the challenges of her new…

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#ARC #ARC Review #August 2023 Books #Book Review #Edith Bolling #Edith Bolling Galt #Edith Galt Wilson #Edith Wilson #Historical Fiction #NetGalley #Rebecca Boggs Roberts #Sourcebooks Landmark #The Great War #The President&039;s Wife #Tracey Enerson Wood #U.S. Presidents #Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson #Woodrow Wilson #World War I

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