DIVIDE by Jessa Russo
A CLEVER FAIRY-TALE REBOOT features a young woman fighting an ancient curse, half-brothers vying to save her. B PLUS
DIVIDE
self-published
2014
Grade: B PLUS
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A CLEVER FAIRY-TALE REBOOT features a young woman fighting an ancient curse, half-brothers vying to save her. B PLUS
DIVIDE
self-published
2014
Grade: B PLUS
A DELICATELY WROUGHT PORTRAIT of a marriage traces the ups and downs of love in spare yet poetic prose. SOLID B
DEPT. OF SPECULATION
Knopf
2014
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews
A RICH TAPESTRY OF HISTORY comes alive in this vividly told saga of Richard the Lionhearted’s last years. B PLUS
A KING’S RANSOM
A Marian Wood Book/Putnam
2014
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, England, Historical Fiction, Novels
APPEALING TIME-TRAVEL TALE with spunky heroine, intriguing premise, Minnesota local color, but uneven pacing. B MINUS
THE RUNESTONE INCIDENT
47North
2014
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction
HIGH-TECH CONSPIRACY THRILLER is packed with suspense, grandly over the top in the best Crichton tradition. B PLUS
INFLUX
Dutton Books
2014
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction
THE HEARTBREAKS, EXHILARATIONS of one woman’s journey from an ultra-Orthodox childhood to a more secular life. B PLUS
CUT ME LOOSE : SIN AND SALVATION AFTER MY ULTRA-ORTHODOX GIRLHOOD
Nan A. Talese
2014
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Judaism, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Women's Issues
THOUGHTS ON FACING LIFE challenges–from hip replacement to the joy of a new dog–with grace. Charming, wry. B PLUS
NEW LIFE, NO INSTRUCTIONS
Random House
2014
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Women's Interest
A TRANSATLANTIC ROMANCE SET against the backdrops of music journalism in London, big finance in New York. SOLID B
FIX YOU
self-published
2014
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: London, New York City, Novels, Romance, Self-Publisher Sundays, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
AN UNLIKELY QUINTET OF SLEUTHS (four elderly Italian barflies and a young bartender) solve a local murder. B PLUS
GAME FOR FIVE
Europa Editions, Incorporated
2014
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Italy, Mystery, Novels
THE WILD, ALMOST HALLUCINOGENIC story of writer Walter Kirn’s friendship with murderer “Clark Rockefeller”. A MINUS
BLOOD WILL OUT
Liveright Publishing Corporation
2014
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, True Crime