k2reader July 26, 2022

The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin #bookreview

Thank you to Thoughts From a Page, Kathleen Carter Communications, Hanover Square Press, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Librarian Spy in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hanover Square Press Published: July 26, 2022   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London comes a moving new novel inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II. Ava thought her job as…

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k2reader July 22, 2022

The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green #bookreview

Thank you Celadon Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Kingdoms of Savannah in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books Published: July 19, 2022   Summary: Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city’s history. But look deeper and you’ll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It’s the…

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k2reader July 14, 2022

The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Dutton, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Magnolia Palace in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook via my subscription with libro.fm. Publisher: Dutton / Penguin Audio Published: January 25, 2022   Summary: Fiona Davis, New York Times best-selling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City’s most impressive Gilded Age mansions.…

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k2reader July 6, 2022

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden #bookreview #audiobook #seriesreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Del Rey Books / Random House Audio Published: Paperback – June 27, 2017 / Audio – January 10, 2017   Summary: At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind–she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers…

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k2reader June 29, 2022

The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer #blogtour #bookreview #netgalley #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and Graydon House/Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of  The German Wife in exchange for my honest review. Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The German Wife. Thank you Graydon House for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Graydon House / Harper Audio Published: June 28, 2022   Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns…

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k2reader June 26, 2022

The Ghosts of Paris by Tara Moss #bookreview #netgalley #seriesreview

Thank you Dutton / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The New Neighbor in exchange for my honest review.    Publisher: Dutton Published: June 7, 2022 Summary: A thrilling tale of courage and secrets set in postwar London and Paris, in which a search for a missing husband puts investigator and former war reporter Billie Walker on a collision course with an underground network of Nazi criminals It’s 1947.…

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k2reader June 24, 2022

Jackie and Me by Louis Bayard #bookreview #blogtour

Thank you Algonquin Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Jackie and Me in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Algonquin Books Published: June 14, 2022 Summary: Master storyteller Louis Bayard delivers a surprising portrait of a young Jackie Kennedy as we’ve never seen her before. In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. Her mission in life is…

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k2reader June 19, 2022

Shadows of Pecan Hollow by Caroline Frost #bookreview

Thank you William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of The Shadows of Pecan Hollow in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: February 8, 2022   Summary: It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal. Longing for the family and security she never had, she allowed herself to be coddled and groomed into Manny’s partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and…

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k2reader June 5, 2022

The Lost Summers of Newport by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and William Morrow #partner,  for the finished copy of The Lost Summers of Newport in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Harper Audio / William Morrow Published: May 17, 2022   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White–a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a…

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k2reader June 3, 2022

Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Simon & Schuster #partner,  for the advanced copy of Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: June 14, 2022   Summary: For readers of The Light Between Oceans and The Island of Sea Women, a feminist adventure story set against the backdrop of the dangerous pearl diving…

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k2reader June 3, 2022

The Foundling by Ann Leary #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Scriber/Marysue Rucci Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Foundling in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Scriber/Marysue Rucci Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 31, 2022   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test…

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k2reader May 30, 2022

Review: On Gin Lane by Brooke Lea Foster (audio)

Publisher: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 31, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via @BookClubFavorites / Gallery Books / Audio – ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: After her fiancé whisks her off to the glistening shores of Southampton in June of 1957, one young socialite begins to realize that her glamorous summer is giving her everything—except what she really wants—in this new novel…

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k2reader May 28, 2022

Review: The Fault Between Us by Bette Lee Crosby

Publisher: Bent Pine Publishing Published: October 19, 2021 Source: Author   Summary: April 18, 1906 – A devastating earthquake rocks San Francisco and Templeton Morehouse fears her husband is lost forever. A powerful and compelling story from USA Today bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby Chances were a million to one that a girl born and raised in Philadelphia would encounter a stranger from California on the trolley and fall madly…

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k2reader May 22, 2022

Review: The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani (audio)

Publisher: Dutton / Penguin Audio Published: April 26, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via Dutton / Audio via Library   Summary: From Adriana Trigiani, “a master of visual and palpable detail” (The Washington Post), comes a lush, immersive novel about three generations of Tuscan artisans with one remarkable secret. Epic in scope and resplendent with the glorious themes of identity and belonging, The Good Left Undone unfolds in breathtaking turns. Matelda, the…

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k2reader May 20, 2022

Review: The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding by Lydia Kang (audio)

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: May 1, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Author / Audio – ALC via Brilliance Publishing   Summary: From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes a spellbinding historical mystery about hidden identities, wartime paranoia, and the tantalizing power of deceit. Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will…

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k2reader May 16, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner (audio)

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner. Thank you Austen Prose PR for inviting me to participate.     Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: May 17, 2022 Source: ALC via Macmillan Audio   SUMMARY: Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and…

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k2reader May 6, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray. Thank you Austen Prose PR for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: Vintage Anchor Books Published: May 3, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via AustenProse PR   Summary: A summer house party turns into a whodunit when Mr. Wickham, one of literature’s most notorious villains, meets a sudden and suspicious…

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k2reader May 2, 2022

Book Event: Long Island Reads & Book Review: The Living and the Lost by Ellen Feldman

Yesterday, I attended my first of what I hope will be many Long Island Reads events. Long Island Reads is an island-wide initiative that began in 2002 to bring readers together from both Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Each spring readers across both counties read the same book, participate in book discussions and enjoy events related to the book in the libraries. Now that in-person events are happening again, this year…

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k2reader April 23, 2022

Review: Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr (audio)

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks / Harper Audio Published: March 1, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio – ALC via Publisher   Summary: From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece – forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth. After talking her way into a job with…

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k2reader April 16, 2022

Review: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (print/audio)

Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: March 29, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via William Morrow / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish…

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k2reader April 15, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: Mrs. England by Stacey Halls (audio)

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Mrs. England by Stacey Hall. Thank you MIRA for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: MIRA / Harper Audio Published: April 12, 2022 Source: Print – Paperback via HTP Books / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   SUMMARY: Simmering with slow-burning menace,  Mrs. England  is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, an enthralling tale of men and…

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k2reader March 22, 2022

Review: Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Published: March 15, 2022 Source: Personal copy   Summary: A “beautifully rendered” novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories, Peach Blossom Spring follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home (Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author). “Within every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and so it goes, until the end…

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k2reader March 16, 2022

Review: Three Sisters by Heather Morris (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: October 5, 2021 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio via library   Summary: From Heather Morris, the New York Times best-selling author of the multimillion-copy best seller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story. Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the most notorious death camp in…

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k2reader March 9, 2022

Review: Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal (audio)

Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books / Simon and Schuster Audio Published: February 1, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Atria / ALC via Simon and Schuster Audio   Summary: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the “lush, evocative Gothic” (The New York Times Book Review) The Doll Factory comes an atmospheric and spectacular novel where one woman’s life is transformed by the arrival of a Victorian circus of wonders… Step up, step…

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k2reader March 4, 2022

Review: Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia (audio)

Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 30, 2021 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio via library   Summary: A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to…

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k2reader March 2, 2022

Review: The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: March 1, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via Kathleen Carter Communications / Audio: ALC via Netgalley   Summary: North Carolina, 1946. One woman. A discovery that could rewrite history. “A beautifully rendered portrait of a young woman finding her courage and her voice.”—Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who’s just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina—the tobacco capital…

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k2reader February 27, 2022

Review: I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys (print/audio)

Publisher: Philomel Books / Penguin Random House Audio Published: February 1, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcopy via Publisher / Audio via library   Summary: A gut-wrenching, startling window into communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the number one New York Times best-selling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray. Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer,…

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k2reader February 23, 2022

Review: Hotel Portofino by J.P. O’Connell (audio)

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: January 18, 2022 Source: Netgalley   Summary: For fans of Downton Abbey and The Crown…welcome to Hotel Portofino, where romance, revelry, and intrigue await. A heady historical drama about a British family who opens an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring Twenties. Hotel Portofino has been open for only a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its owner Bella Ainsworth. Her high-class guests…

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k2reader February 21, 2022

Review: Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor (audio)

Publisher: Harper Perennial / Harper Audio Published: February 1, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Harper Perennial / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   Summary: USA Today best-selling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices. On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his…

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k2reader February 14, 2022

Book Spotlight & Author Q&A: The Road We Took by Cathy A. Lewis

Publisher: Cathy Lewis Published: February 15, 2022 Source: BooksFowardPR   Summary: In 1933, before World War II, and the Holocaust, the world was unaware of Hitler’s plans to exterminate millions. Author Cathy A. Lewis discovered a tattered leather suitcase containing her deceased father’s journal documenting his six-week trek through Europe in 1933 while on his way to the 4th Boy Scout World Jamboree. Inspired by her father’s historical recount, The…

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k2reader February 13, 2022

Review: Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner (audio)

Publisher: ChristianAudio.com Published: April 16, 2015 Source: Library   Summary: The author of A Fall of Marigolds journeys from the present day to World War II England, as two sisters are separated by the chaos of wartime. She stood at a crossroads, half-aware that her choice would send her down a path from which there could be no turning back. But instead of two choices, she saw only one—because it…

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k2reader February 11, 2022

Review: A Train to Moscow by Elena Gorokhova

  Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Published: March 1, 2022 Source: ARC E-copy via Netgalley   Summary: In post–World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in this powerful and poignant novel about family secrets, passion and loss, perseverance and ambition. In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is…

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k2reader February 11, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: The Last Grand Duchess by Bryn Turnbull

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Last Grand Duchess by Bryn Turnbull. Thank you MIRA for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: MIRA Published: February 8, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: This sweeping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Woman Before Wallis takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of…

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k2reader February 10, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron

Publisher: Soho Crime Published: February 8, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via AustenProse PR   Summary: May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript–about a baronet’s daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain–cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of…

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k2reader February 9, 2022

Review: Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: January 25, 2022 Source: Hardcover via Publisher   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie and The Only Woman in the Room. Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider―brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide…

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k2reader February 6, 2022

Review: The Bait by C.W. Gortner & M.J. Rose

Publisher: Blue Box Press Published: August 10, 2021 Source: GetRedPR   Summary: Revenge is a diamond best served cold. A year after THE STEAL, Ania Throne is determined to take back what the Leopard stole from her. Together with her lover and partner, Jerome, she stages a spectacular heist during the Venetian Carnival, to lure out the treacherous mastermind they unmasked. She’s willing to risk it all—until her revenge takes a…

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k2reader February 2, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: A Lullaby for Witches by Hester Fox

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for A Lullaby for Witches by Hester Fox. Thank you Graydon House for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: Graydon House Published: February 1, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: Two women. A history of witchcraft. And a deep-rooted female power that sings across the centuries. Once there was a young woman from a well-to-do…

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k2reader January 31, 2022

Review: The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 1, 2022 Source: Print – Netgalley via Publisher / Audio – ALC via Publisher   Summary: Nina de Gramont’s The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder—and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. “A long time ago, in…

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k2reader January 23, 2022

Review: The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: January 11, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via St. Martin’s Press / Audio via library   Summary: A community’s past sins rise to the surface in New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain’s The Last House on the Street when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and an unsolved, decades-old mystery. 1965 Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill,…

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k2reader January 19, 2022

Review: A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner (audio)

Publisher: NAL / ChristianAudio.com Published: Print – February 4, 2014 / Audio – March 11, 2015 Source: Print – Personal copy / Audio via Library   Summary: A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away…. September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning…

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k2reader January 8, 2022

Blog Tour & Book Spotlight: Honor by Thrity Umrigar

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Honor by Thrity Umrigar. Thank you Algonquin Books for inviting me to participate. ***  Reese Witherspoon has selected Thrity Umrigar’s HONOR as her January Book Club Pick! I’ve really come to enjoy Reese’s picks and will definitely be reading along this month!   Publisher: Algonquin Books Published: January 4, 2022   Summary: In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity…

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k2reader January 3, 2022

Review: The Last Debutantes by Georgie Blalock

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: August 24, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: Fans of The Kennedy Debutante and Last Year in Havana will love Georgie Blalock’s new novel of a world on the cusp of change…set on the eve of World War II in the glittering world of English society and one of the last debutante seasons.  They danced the night away, knowing their world was about to change forever. They were the debutantes…

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k2reader December 27, 2021

Review: A Man of Honor by Barbara Taylor Bradford

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: December 28, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford’s New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O’Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to…

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k2reader December 26, 2021

Review: The Night Portrait by Laura Morelli (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks / Harper Audio Published: September 8, 2020 Source: ARC Paperback via William Morrow / Audio via library   Summary: An exciting, dual-timeline historical novel about the creation of one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine, and the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during World War II. Milan, 1492: When a 16-year old beauty becomes the mistress…

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k2reader December 20, 2021

Review: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (audio)

Publisher: Random House Audio Published: June 1, 2021 Source: ALC via Libro.fm   Summary: Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of 24 hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives will change forever. Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas:…

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k2reader December 16, 2021

Review: Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks Published: June 1, 2021 (First published July 2020) Source: Saichek Publicity   Summary: Over the course of one summer that begins with a shocking tragedy, three generations of the Adler family grapple with heartbreak, romance, and the weight of family secrets in this stunning debut novel that’s perfect for fans of Manhattan Beach and The Dollhouse. Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house…

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k2reader December 13, 2021

Blog Tour & Review: The Women of Pearl Island by Polly Crosby

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Women of Pearl Island by Polly Crosby.  Thank you Park Row Books for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: Park Row Books Published: December 7, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: “A luminous and beautiful novel that gently lures the reader into a captivating story with a mystery at its heart.” – Jennifer Saint, bestselling…

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k2reader November 28, 2021

Review: The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray (audio)

Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: March 30, 2021 Source: Print – Personal copy / Audio – via library   Summary: An epic saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in three of humanity’s darkest hours Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one…

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k2reader November 14, 2021

Series Review: The Rainer Series by Jamie McGillen

  This month, the online bookclub I co-host, #mommaleighellenbookclub, selected In the Heart of Paradise as one of our selections. Because it is the third book in Jamie McGillen’s series and I had not read the previous two, and me being me, I knew I had to read them first and I’m so glad I did. That being said, I decided to do all three reviews in one post, rather…

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k2reader November 12, 2021

Review: The Cartographer’s Secret by Tea Cooper

Publisher: Harper Muse Published: November 16, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via TLC Booktours   Summary: A map into the past. A long-lost young woman. And a thirty-year family mystery. The Hunter Valley, 1880. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home—hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father’s obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. So when an advertisement appears in The Bulletin magazine offering…

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