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A beautiful story about a possible alien child

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

August 23, 2026 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I missed this book in my recent extreme review catch up. I was laying in bed last night thinking “what about that alien girl book?” because I didn’t remember writing about it. Anyway, here we are. Our main character is Joanna, a bird researcher who’s recovering from losing her mother and some of her womanhood after surviving breast cancer. She’s staying at a cabin and doing research on nests for the summer, and kinda hiding from the rest of the world. Then randomly one day […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: alien, Glendy Vanderah, ursa

kfishgirl's CBR18 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: alien, Glendy Vanderah, ursa ·
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“Ursa Major was fictional, only the shape of a bear bounded in stars.

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

July 23, 2022 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR14BINGO: Star Square (Stars in the title, main character named after a star, all sorts of star gazing and other starry business) Joanna is a graduate student studying the nesting habits of birds at a remote cabin used by her university. A cancer survivor who underwent a double mastectomy, Joanna is also mourning the death of her mother. While finding relief in her research and the solitude of the woods, she is interrupted by a young girl who strolls out of the woods claiming to be […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, cbr14bingo, Glendy Vanderah

Leedock's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14, cbr14bingo, Glendy Vanderah ·
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This post is a grab bag of fiction

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

A Lily in the Light by Kristin Fields

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

September 5, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

So I’ve got three fiction novels to review here — all of which are kind of hard to classify, which is how they ended up here… (4 stars) Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah I didn’t really know what to expect from this one, but I ended up really liking it. The writing was lovely and the characters were very realistically portrayed. “If she’d learned one thing in the last two years, it was that life could be hard enough without adding […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: badkittyuno, Glendy Vanderah, Kristin Fields, Stuart Turton

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:165 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: badkittyuno, Glendy Vanderah, Kristin Fields, Stuart Turton ·
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