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Category Archives: DV Fiction

Book Review: The Banned Books Club

January 7, 2025by Anne Caroline Drake Leave a comment

The Banned Books Club by Brenda Novak gets off to a slow and awkward start. I regret that I didn’t read the Author’s Note before I started reading the book: […]

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Book Review: The Shadow Box

August 22, 2022by Anne Caroline Drake Leave a comment

Wow! Y’all know that I seriously have to love a book to come out of retirement to write a review. It is another superb recommendation from retired librarian extraordinaire Susan […]

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Book Review: Before We Were Strangers

May 19, 2021by Anne Caroline Drake Leave a comment

What happened to Clara McBride?  This is the central question in Brenda Novak‘s riveting Before We Were Strangers. When she was just five years old, her daughter Sloane overheard her parents’ […]

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Book Review: The Sound of Glass

October 2, 2019by Anne Caroline Drake Leave a comment

Have you made yourself invisible?  I have.  But, I didn’t realize I’d made myself invisible until I read Karen White’s The Sound of Glass the second time.  I gained weight.  […]

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Book Review: The Oysterville Sewing Circle

October 1, 2019by Anne Caroline Drake 2 Comments

What is your super power?  We all have one.  When we pool our resources and talents, we can make a huge dent in preventing violence against women.  This is the […]

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Book Review: I Let You Go

July 15, 2019by Anne Caroline Drake Leave a comment

Why don’t you leave? Clare Mackintosh answers this question in graphic detail in her debut international bestseller I Let You Go.  She also provides brilliant insights into the twisted minds […]

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Book Review: Luckiest Girl Alive

June 12, 2018by Anne Caroline Drake 4 Comments

In The Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll rips off the veneer and exposes the harsh reality of women who have been raped. The PTSD episodes. The pretense that everything’s fine here. […]

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Book Review: The Prayer Box

November 16, 2017by Anne Caroline Drake Leave a comment

The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you’re not in any shape to save anyone else. You can’t be a lighthouse when you’re underwater […]

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Book Review: The Beekeeper’s Ball by Susan Wiggs

June 23, 2014by Anne Caroline Drake Leave a comment

Men who hurt women should not be allowed to get away with it. – Susan Wiggs, The Beekeeper’s Ball Midsummer’s Eve is the perfect time to celebrate the release tomorrow of […]

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Book Review: Blessed Are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch

June 18, 2014by Anne Caroline Drake Leave a comment

I think happiness can be found in the city or the country but that, wherever you are, you need someone to help you look for it, whether it’s a partner, […]

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