Review: Jane Steele
This book had me at the tagline: "Reader, I murdered him." "Reader, I married him" is the most famous line from Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel and one of the most beloved books within English literature today. Author Lyndsay Faye took Jane Eyre and cleverly adapted it. This book isn't...
Review: The Book of Lost Names
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel was so difficult to put down. The novel begins with the reader meeting a headstrong elderly librarian in...
Review: The Secret Messenger
Mandy Robotham's novel of the Nazi occupation of Venice—and the Venetian resistance that fought against fascism in many different ways—is an...
Every Bookstore on Prince Edward Island (Updated!)
August 2020 Update: I did it! I have now been to every bookstore in Prince Edward Island! They said it couldn't be done. The fools. The fools!...
Sneak Peek: Kate Quinn’s New Novel
Kate Quinn is one of the most talented authors writing within the historical fiction genre today. Her two most recent novels, The Alice Network...
Review: Daughter of the Reich
There are affiliate links in this post. Read my disclosure policy to learn more. This review features some minor spoilers. Set in 1930s Germany,...
The Red Pen Parable
I announced this on social media a few weeks ago when it happened but this blog update is long overdue. I completed the rough draft of my first...
Review: The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir
There are affiliate links in this post. Read my disclosure policy to learn more. Adorable English village? Check. Multiple points of view with...
Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
There are affiliate links in this post. Read my disclosure policy to learn more. It would appear that author Taylor Jenkins Reid knows the exact...
Review: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
There are affiliate links in this post. Read my disclosure policy to learn more. I didn't know much about Theranos or its founder, Elizabeth Holmes,...
Review: To Have and to Hoax
There are affiliate links in this post. Read my disclosure policy to learn more. Martha Waters, I believe, may have a direct line to my brain. In...
Atlantic Canadians Need Comfort, Not Reminders of Prejudice
My connection to Portapique I grew up in Five Islands, Nova Scotia, a community of a couple hundred people. Yes, everyone knows everyone. Yes, we're...
Review: Invisible Women
There are affiliate links in this post. Read my disclosure policy to learn more. The emotional part of my brain and the logical, science-loving part...
Jillianne Hamilton is the author of the Molly Miranda: Thief for Hire trilogy and The Lazy Historian's Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII. Learn more.
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