by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 23, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Summary: Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse. It’s been ten years since...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Oct 3, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 12, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history,...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Holidays
Summary: Lori Shepherd and her family spend Christmas in the cottage willed to her by her late Aunt Dimity, but when she discovers a stranger barely alive in the snow, she teams up with a priest and together they unveil the tragic secret that led the stranger to her...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity in a city ravaged by war. In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of...