by envisionmg | Aug 17, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
Liv Green has been a fan of author Essie Starling since she was a schoolgirl. When young Liv was trying to make sense of her world after losing her father in an accident, she wrote to the author and much to her surprise and gratitude, she received a warm response from...
by envisionmg | Aug 8, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
This book kept me guessing until the end, even when I was sure that I knew what was going on. Honestly, it is not hard to keep my guessing; I am terrible at predicting what will happen in a story and I do not spend much time trying to figure out plotlines and...
by envisionmg | Aug 3, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
Counterfeit, a fictional fraud-novel by Kirstin Chen, is a fast-paced story that delves deeper than you might expect. The novel is initially narrated by Ava Wong, a Chinese-American Stanford graduate who is taking time away from her corporate law career. At first...
by envisionmg | Jul 29, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
Naomi Krupitsky’s novel The Family is an engaging, engrossing story about two young girls who grow up together in Brooklyn in the 1940s. Sofia and Antonia are neighbors and best friends whose immigrant fathers work in “The Family.” Sofia and Antonia do not understand...
by envisionmg | Jul 13, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
I love books about libraries, and books about bookstores, and books about books… but I did not really love this book. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a mystery written by Eva Jurczyk, and the setting is a university library in Canada. Liesl...
by envisionmg | Jul 6, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
Abbi Waxman’s most recent novel, Adult Assembly Required, features some of the same characters seen in her earlier book The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. You do not need to read any of Waxman’s previous books before you read this one (but I am pretty sure that you will...
