by Milana Marsenich | Jul 22, 2024 | Book Reviews
“El Paso, you’re looking good!” I loved this book. It is tender, real, and full of courage. On a whim, a young woman gets spontaneously tossed into a world foreign to all she knows: the making of a beauty queen. Imagine two flamboyant men with a dream. Imagine a...
by Milana Marsenich | Feb 28, 2024 | Book Reviews
Nina Romano has written a historical thriller full of sensuous detail. Love, danger, and mystery follow Anya, a former ballerina, through 1950’s Russia, during the constraints and brutalities of the Soviet regime. Anya is a jobless, single mother of a child with...
by Milana Marsenich | Feb 21, 2024 | Book Reviews
This is a beautiful, intriguing, and heartbreaking novel. I would give it ten stars and more if it was possible. I found myself glued to the pages of this tragic and stunning story. In the harrowing moments of childbirth, Leona Pinson prays that Luther Biggs, a former...
by Milana Marsenich | Dec 12, 2023 | Book Reviews
The Bundling Year, by Anne Schroeder, is a beautifully written novel about unexpected love. Amanda Miller, no stranger to grief, receives a letter that her Aunt Lydia has died. Aunt Lydia helped raise Amanda after a tragic accident paralyzed Amanda’s mother. The...
by Milana Marsenich | Aug 6, 2023 | Book Reviews
Based on the lives of real people, The River Remembers is a tender and powerful account of the lives of three women in 1830’s Michigan Territory. The prologue to this deeply touching novel is one of the most beautiful pieces of writing I’ve read. Ulleseit continues in...
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