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Book Reviews

Book Review: A Different Sun by Elaine Neil Orr

This book was simply not what I was expecting—I’m not sure anyone could truly anticipate it, to be honest. A Different Sun is advertised as a story of African missionaries, but it was just…strange. Both the narrative style and the content itself ...
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Book Review: The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

I am not impressed with this book. Not at all. It’s silly. It’s fluffy. It’s completely unreal. I don’t deny that The Tea Rose was compulsively readable, but that’s probably it’s only quality. Overall, I was aggravated and fed up with this book. ...
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Book Review: The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh

There’s nothing like an idiot to ruin a book. Jennifer McVeigh’s The Fever Tree would be excellent, if we could only lose the protagonist, who’s judgmental, whiny, selfish, and absolutely moronic. Sorry Frances, but your fairytale life does not ...
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Book Review: Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas

So, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but here it is: RAPE IS WRONG and STALKING IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Sugar Daddy favorably portrays a relationship where those things happen. In this book, Lisa Kleypas perpetuates harmful ideas about what is ...
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Book Review: Lady of Passion by Freda Lightfoot

In Lady of Passion, Freda Lightfoot chronicles the life of Mary Darby Robinson (“The English Sappho”), a Georgian-era poet, actress, feminist, and courtesan. The novel is written as an autobiography in Mary’s own hand, looking back on her life, ...
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Book Review: Trafficked by Kim Purcell

Human trafficking affects millions of people every year across the world; thousands of them are brought to the United States to work as domestic or sex slaves. Kim Purcell’s debut novel tells the story of one such girl, who comes to America to ...
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