Book Reviews
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Marie‑Laure, blind since childhood, flees the Nazi invasion with her father’s secrets, while Werner, a German orphan with a talent for radios, is pulled into the Hitler Youth and ultimately drawn toward her in a walled city by the sea.
The Lost Passenger - Frances Quinn
Elinor Coombes survives the Titanic disaster and uses the tragedy to vanish with her son, but struggles to build a new life and keep their secret buried.
The Safekeep - Yael Van Der Wouden
The Safekeep is about Isabel’s journey and her ever-growing connection with Eva, her brother’s girlfriend. When her brother leaves their childhood home for a short business trip, the two girls are left alone for an indefinite amount of time. Their bond deepens, Isabel’s belongings begin to go missing, and a historically rooted emotional truth comes to light. Will it shatter their relationship, or bring them closer together?
Sisters Under the Rising Sun - Heather Morris
When nurse, Nesta James, and English musician Norah Chambers find themselves on the Vyner Brooke, fleeing Singapore to escape the Japanese in Febuary 1942, disaster strikes the ship they’re on and nothing is the same again.
Violeta - Isabel Allende
Violeta’s life starts during the Spanish Influenza and is nothing but an intriguing story from there. Illnesses shatter souls, decisions destroy families, and love breaks the hearts of those most innocent to the world around them. It’s a story about loss, desire, and everything in between…
The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk
The Empusium is a novel about a young man, Mieczyslaw Wojnicz, who has a mild case of Tuberculosis. He takes it upon himself to travel to Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentleman. But little does Wojnicz know that the health resort he’s at starts to become a trip full of sinister nightmares…
Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising is a historically set family saga that follows the lives of the Riva family. The book spans across one day and focuses on the children of Mick and June Riva, though it flashes back to their own personal lives - where the two meet and fall in love, expressing their hopes and dreams for the future - throughout the story, weaving the aftermath of their reckless choices and purposeful neglect into the outcomes of Nina’s, Jay’s, Hud’s, and Kit’s lives during August 1983.