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    ARCS,  BOOK REVIEWS,  CENTRAL AFRICA,  CULTURAL,  FICTION,  LITERARY FICTION,  NETGALLEY

    BOOK REVIEW : HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE BY IMBOLO MBUE

    How Beautiful We Were is a literary fiction/cultural fiction written by Imbolo Mbue. The story is set in the fictional African village of Kosawa. It tells the heartwrenching tale of the suffering and turmoil caused by the greed of western oil companies. The story is an unforgettable one written with brutal honesty and captures the readers from the get-go. It is told from multiple perspectives helping us put together the puzzle that will leave us with the whole picture. All characters provide us with insight into the situation and help us learn the life before and after the companies started to drill for oil. It is a powerful story that…

  • BOOK REVIEWS,  FANTASY,  FICTION,  NETGALLEY

    BOOK REVIEW : REALM OF KNIGHTS (KNIGHTS OF THE REALM #1) BY JENNIFER ANNE DAVIS

    TITLE : Realm Of Knights (Knights of The Realm #1) AUTHOR : Jennifer Anne Davis GENRE : YA, Fantasy FBRC RATING : 5 Stars BLURB : Reid has spent her whole life pretending to be a man so she can inherit her father’s estate, but when a chance encounter threatens to expose her lie, she is forced to risk everything. In the kingdom of Marsden, women are subservient to men and land can only pass from father to son. So when Reid Ellington is born, the fifth daughter to one of the wealthiest landholders in the kingdom, it’s announced that Reid is a boy. Eighteen years later, Reid struggles to…

  • ADULT,  BOOK REVIEWS,  CONTEMPORARY,  FICTION,  NETGALLEY,  ROMANCE,  WOMEN'S FICTION

    BOOK REVIEW : SEVEN LETTERS BY J.P.MONNINGER

    A Blasket Islander lived on top of the sea, beside the sea, inside the sea. I felt its overwhelming presence before I had walked a quarter mile. – SEVEN LETTERS (J.P.MONNINGER) TITLE : Seven Letters AUTHOR : J.P.Monninger GENRE : Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Romance FBRC RATING : 4 stars BLURB: J. P. Monninger, author of the international bestseller The Map That Leads to You, the novel Nicholas Sparks called “romantic and unforgettable”, tells a poignant love story of the ways the world divides two souls—and the way that love brings them together. Kate Moreton is in Ireland on sabbatical from her teaching position at Dartmouth College when she meets Ozzie…

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    BOOK REVIEW : WICKED FOX BY KAT CHO

    “Maybe it’s wrong for us to hold any one person as our whole world. Maybe…” Jihoon trailed off with an odd expression. “Maybe it’s wrong of us to owe all of our happiness or sadness to one person. – KAT CHO (WICKED FOX) TITLE : Wicked fox AUTHOR : Kat Cho GENRE : YA, Fantasy, Mythology, Romance FBRC RATING : 4 stars BLURB: A fresh and addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret–she’s a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no…