Tag: Fiction
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March ‘21 Reads and Ratings
Links to books:Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins Caucasia by Danny Senna Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi Shades in Shadow by N.K. Jemisin The Devil You Know by Charles M Blow The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
Lisa Diane ~ Silverchevelure
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January ‘21 Reads and Ratings
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw The House In The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Patriarch by Brandon MasseyAwakening by Nora Roberts Dispossession by Tayari Jones The Patriarch was suspenseful with a wallop of supernatural! Finished the 3rd book in […]
Lisa Diane ~ Silverchevelure
Black Buck, Book Ratings, Book Reviews, Books, Brandon Massey, Deesha Philyaw, Dispossession, Fantasy, Fiction, Good Reads Challenge 2021, Historical Fiction, Libby, Mateo Askaripour, N.K. Jemisin, Speculative Fiction, Tayari Jones, The House In The Cerulean Sea, The Patriarch, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, The Stone Sky, TJ Klune -
My Book Rating System
I rate book with DNF – ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ stars based on each of the following: 1. Readability – Well written? – Strong chapter beginnings and endings – Well developed characters – Page turner? 2. Engagement – Was I fully engaged? Did I lose myself in the read? – Was it hard to […]
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Book Review: Pale by Edward Farmer
Edward Farmer’s engrossing debut, Pale, begins in 1966 in the burning heat of Mississippi, when Bernice, whose husband left with all their savings and didn’t return, accepts her brothers invitation to join him in working on a cotton plantation. She is slowly immersed into a household full of secrets, deception, revenge, and downright cruelty, which […]
Lisa Diane ~ Silverchevelure
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Book Review: The Missing American
Kwei Quartey’s newest novel, The Missing American, opens with a sniper assassination of a Ghanaian presidential candidate, and then we are introduced to Emma Djan, whose dreams of a promising career in the Ghana Police Service are dashed when she tearfully refuses an offer of a position in Homicide in return for sex. The Deputy […]
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