Category: book reviews
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The Ending of An American Marriage
An American Marriage is a contemporary fiction by Tayari Jones. It is a love story, but not a conventional one. It explores the complexities of love, marriage, family, and social justice. Newlyweds Roy and Celestial are an African American couple whose marriage is challenged when Roy is arrested and wrongfully convicted of a crime. The…
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The Ending of Red at the Bone
Red at the Bone is a literary fiction of three generations by Jacqueline Woodson. Sixteen-year-old Melody is celebrating her coming-of-age party when the novel begins. It is a traditional event that honors the family’s African American roots. She thinks about the choices that her parents and grandparents made and how that has shaped her identity…
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How Truly Madly Guilty Ends
Truly Madly Guilty is a fiction novel by Liane Moriarty that tells the story of three couples. The story revolves around the lives of three couples who attend a barbecue that goes terribly wrong, and the aftermath that follows. Moriarty shows how each couple copes, and how their relationship changes. The three women in the…
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All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison: EUPL Giveaway! — Stuck in a Book
The European Prize for Literature (EUPL) is an annual prize that awards emerging authors from across 41 countries in Europe – and, because of lockdown making promotion of the prize more difficult, I’m one of the bloggers who has been asked to help raise awareness of the prize and of the UK winner – Melissa… All…
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The Ending of What Alice Forgot
What Alice Forgot is a contemporary fiction novel by Liane Moriaty. Alice is a thirty-nine mother of three who is going through a divorce, but when she falls off her bike during spin class, she doesn’t remember any of this. She thinks it is 1998, ten years earlier, when she was pregnant with her first…
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The Ending of The Shadow of the Wind
The Shadow of the Wind is a book of excitement and intrigue by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It is the first book in the Cemetery of Forgotten series, set in Barcelona in the post-war 1940s. Daniel lives alone with his father after his mother passes away when he is 4. The two are close and on…
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The Ending of Next Year in Havana
Next Year in Havana is a historical fiction by Chanel Cleeton, and also a romance novel. The book tells the story of two women, a granddaughter, Marisol, and a grandmother, Elisa, separated by decades. On a trip to Cuba, to say goodbye to her grandmother, Marisol learns about the history of Cuba and her grandmother’s…
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The Ending of Fleishman is in Trouble
Fleishman Is In Trouble is a literary fiction novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. The Fleishman family is made of four people: dad Toby, mom Rachel, children Hannah (11), and Solly (9). Rachel is a business owner and Toby is a 41-year-old hepatologist. After being together for 15 years, they are going through a messy divorce. Their…
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The Ending of The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys is a book by Colson Whitehead. It starts at the ending, 50 years later, with an unmarked grave, full of bones, on the north side of Boot Hill. We must go back in time to find out the details.
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The Ending of Bedlam Stacks
The Bedlam Stacks is a historical fiction by Natasha Pulley that has elements of magic and magical realism. Set in the nineteenth century, the story features a quest to Peru to find a rare tree that is supposed to have magical properties. Along the way, the characters meet many magical and mythical creatures, and they…