I'm a sucker for a novel about a lady pilot who flies airplanes during wartime. (I've also reviewed The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar and Kate...
Review: Glamour Girls
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Book Reviews
Review: The Kitchen Front
Last May, I borrowed The Chilbury Ladies Choir from my local library and absolutely fell in love with it. A sweet story about friendship and...
Review: A Fire Sparkling
I'm such a sucker for London Blitz novels right now so when I saw the cover for A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean, I knew I had to devour it. And...
The 10 Best Books I Read in 2020
A finished reading 33 books this year. To some bookworms, that might not seem like a lot but that's a pretty good number for me and I'm proud of it....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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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praise for jillianne
Jillianne has done a fabulous job creating a loveable and down-to-earth heroine in Molly Miranda and followed through with a really strong plotline packed full of twists and turns.
Holly at Bookaholic Confessions
Hamilton handles the story with a deft touch, balancing action, laugh-out-loud zingers and romance with zippy pacing and a character you can really root for.
Author Kat Ross
I thought the author's sense of humor was so funny! I found myself giggling out loud.
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