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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.”




Kelly Romo, an American author, pens her debut novel, Whistling Women, that narrates the story of two women, one thirty-something living in the Nudist colony with a past from which she is trying hard to run away from and another a fifteen years old young lady, who is curious about everything in life and is trying to figure out her divorced-alcoholic mother's past. The paths of these two women cross during the California Pacific International Exposition in the year of 1935. And this is their story.

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Good Afternoon my dear readers and followers,

Hope y'all are having a great day or  some might be wrapping up their great day and going to sleep. All right, it's been quite a while, since I posted  about an author interview. So today it's time for another new interview with another fascinating author talking about his/her equally enchanting books. Ann Jacobus, the debut YA writer is here today to talk about her new book, Romancing the Dark in the City of Light, the city, Paris, and about her life as an author. So stay tuned and scroll below to read this inspiring interview.

Read the review of Romancing the Dark in the City of Light

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My rating: 1 of 5 stars


“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”




Emma Donoghue, an Irish best-selling novelist, has penned a terrific tale about a five year old boy whose whole universe is centered inside the Room. The Room is a compelling story, told from a five year old boy's perspective, about determination, motherly love, bravery and finally stepping into a new universe where everything moves too fast.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”




Neal Griffin, the Detective-Lieutenant-cum-author, pens his debut thriller, Benefit of the Doubt that unfolds the story of a cop who is fired but now works under his father-in-law, who happens to be a retired Police chief and of a prisoner who just completed his 17-year sentence and now has an agenda to thrive for revenge against those who put him behind the bars.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


"In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way. "



Leza Lowitz, an American author residing in Tokyo, pens her new YA verse novel, Up From the Sea that narrates the story of a young football-aspiring-dreams Japanese teenage boy whose happy life washes away by the roaring tsunami on March 2011, devastating not only his dreams but uprooting his life from his village, thereby losing his whole family. But this is not a story about grief, this is a story which tells the readers how to survive the overwhelming pain, and stand strong against all odds. Moreover, this book also highlights the benefits and value of unity and kindness during a natural disaster.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm.”





Alicia Rades, an American author, pens her new YA series, Crystal Frost and the first book in this series is called Fire in Frost that unfolds the story of a young teenage girl who is while comprehending with her new found powers, is also trying to deal with the ghost of her dead classmate.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars



The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry lifetime after lifetime.”



Sharon Guskin, an American author, pens her debut book, The Forgetting Time that narrates the story of a four year old boy who constantly asks his single mother to take him to his real mother after his nightmares. For his mother, the boy seems like making up imaginary stories, until when things get serious in his pre-school, she thinks that there is something terribly wrong with his little boy and she fears that she might lose her son to someone else when a doctor enters their lives.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”




Monica Wood, an award-winning best-selling author, pens a heart-rending tale of friendship in her new book, The One-in-a-Million Boy that narrates the story of a boy, and a 104-year old immigrant lady and the boy's father, who form a strong bond of friendship over loss and grief and their passion for Guinness World Records.

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