by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 24, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 23, 2021 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Historical Fiction, YA
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that’s been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.Soon Jerome...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 23, 2021 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction
Summary: The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 21, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: The village of Chilbury in Kent is about to ring in some changes. This is a delightful novel of wartime gumption and village spirit that will make your heart sing out. Kent, 1940. In the idyllic village of Chilbury change is afoot. Hearts are breaking as sons...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Mar 14, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past, the present, and herself.One hundred years earlier, a...