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Gossip, Judgement and Destruction – Read this Book

Good People by Patmeena Sarit

April 22, 2026 by itsjustme Leave a Comment

Are we not all outsiders to another person’s life?   Mesmerizing Debut Novel  The novel’s unique structure lacks traditional chapters, paragraphs or narrator. Instead there are 1-2 page personal accounts, giving a 360 degree view of the leadup and the aftermath of one family’s tragedy. I had read about one-third of the book before even learning how somebody died but yet still did not know who had died. There are dozens of unreliable narrators with differing degrees of closeness. Sympathetic words mask superiority, scorn, prejudice […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: #innovative, #mystery, adolescence, drama, family, jealousy, Patmeena Sarit, rebellion, social commentary

itsjustme's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: #innovative, #mystery, adolescence, drama, family, jealousy, Patmeena Sarit, rebellion, social commentary ·
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More Murder, Less Family Drama Please

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

April 19, 2026 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Decades after the heiress Ruby McTavish was kidnapped as a toddler and dubiously recovered a year later, her adopted son Camden and his wife Jules return to her ancestral home in a bid to claim her long-neglected inheritance. This book draws inspiration from several cases in the early 20th century in which a kidnapped or vanished child was thought to be returned, only for it to be later discovered that it was instead some unrelated child who for whatever reason was trying to be forced […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: ARC, contemporary, drama, family, mystery, NetGalley, Rachel Hawkins, Suspense

Pooja's CBR18 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: ARC, contemporary, drama, family, mystery, NetGalley, Rachel Hawkins, Suspense ·
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Your Confederate Sympathies May Vary

The Outlaw Hearts by Rebecca Brandewyne

April 13, 2026 by Pooja Leave a Comment

When schoolteacher Jenny Colter takes the train into the little Ozarks town of Tumbling Creek, she’s hoping to leave behind the violence which destroyed her family in post-Civil War Atlanta. But when she catches sight of the uncovered face of Luke Morgan when he’s robbing the train, he’s determined to keep her quiet by any means necessary… Rebecca Brandewyne is another of those writers of big off-the-wall 80s bodice rippers which I love, though her work doesn’t reach for the soaring heights of WTF-ery that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: 19th century, bodice ripper, civil war, drama, historical, Rebecca Brandewyne, Romance, United States, western

Pooja's CBR18 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: 19th century, bodice ripper, civil war, drama, historical, Rebecca Brandewyne, Romance, United States, western ·
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But We Dream Different Dreams

The Last Boleyn by Karen Harper

April 11, 2026 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Though it is Anne Boleyn who became the second queen of Henry VIII, her sister Mary had her own entanglements with royalty which in many ways paved the way for the rise of the Boleyns. Philippa Gregory retreads this same ground some two decades later, but my understanding is that The Last Boleyn is a more restrained retelling of this already dramatic story. I thought that Harper did an excellent job of fleshing out all the many historical figures which people this book, including members of both […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: audiobook, drama, England, historical, Karen Harper, politics, Romance, royalty, Tudor

Pooja's CBR18 Review No:26 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: audiobook, drama, England, historical, Karen Harper, politics, Romance, royalty, Tudor ·
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Why Would Anyone Prefer Yorkshire to Greece?

Bride's Lace by Violet Winspear

March 18, 2026 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Two years after Bliss’s family home is sold to Paris, she must petition him to save her brother from jail – and the only thing he’ll offer mercy for is her hand in marriage. I’m not entirely convinced that a family that would name their son Justin would name their daughter Bliss, but go off, Harlequin Presents. This has your usual Winspear trademark dark, rich, and apparently sinister hero paired with an innocent heroine rather down on her luck. There’s lots of drama between the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: drama, England, Fiction, forced marriage, Greece, harlequin, Romance, vintage, Violet Winspear

Pooja's CBR18 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: drama, England, Fiction, forced marriage, Greece, harlequin, Romance, vintage, Violet Winspear ·
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Not That Kind of Oven

Skye O'Malley by Bertrice Small

February 13, 2026 by Pooja 7 Comments

Beautiful Skye O’Malley falls in love with Niall Burke on the eve of her marriage to another man, but even someone as adventurous as she cannot imagine the twists and turns her life will take on her way back to him. Sometimes you just want to lay back, turn off your brain, and enjoy a rollicking adventure full of romance, drama, and a surprising amount of politics. Bertrice Small’s work fits the bill perfectly, and in the life of Skye O’Malley, her best known heroine, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: adventure, Algeria, audiobook, Bertrice Small, bodice ripper, drama, England, historical, Ireland, Romance

Pooja's CBR18 Review No:11 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: adventure, Algeria, audiobook, Bertrice Small, bodice ripper, drama, England, historical, Ireland, Romance ·
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