by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 22, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Summary: Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 22, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction
Summary: A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town For a curious boy...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 17, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Summary: Sherlock Holmes is fending off a particularly dark mood as he roams the Sussex Downs, in search of wild bees. The Great War may be raging across the Channel, but on the Downs, the great detective nears terminal melancholia—only to be saved by an encounter...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 2, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 2, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, YA
Summary: All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed in his...