Category: Women’s Fic – Chick-lit


REVIEW: How to Find Your Way Home
17th Mar / 6 Comments

REVIEW: How to Find Your Way Home

How to Find Your Way Home: The deep sibling bond between Stephen and Emily, whose mother Alicia believes she is entitled to a better life than the modest one they were living is tested when their perfect family is ripped apart by more than just their mother’s affair. Thus, when […]

REVIEW: No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib
16th Mar / 5 Comments

REVIEW: No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib

No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib: When the President of the United States issued a travel ban from specific Arabic countries in the Middle East entering the US in 2017, Hadi, having only achieved refugee status from Syria 2 years prior is detained at the airport.

REVIEW: Picasso’s Lovers by Jeanne Mackin
12th Mar / 6 Comments

REVIEW: Picasso’s Lovers by Jeanne Mackin

Picasso’s Lovers by Jeanne Mackin: With a slight meandering opening, Picasso’s Lovers transports us to the earlier decades of the 20th century, wherein Alana, determined to use her writing talents despite the inherent gender prejudice of the time sets out on a journey of intrigue, relationships and artistic magic.

REVIEW: Principles of Emotion by Sara Read
29th Feb / 6 Comments

REVIEW: Principles of Emotion by Sara Read

Principles of Emotion by Sara Read: Leaving her academic life to care for her Grandmother, due, in part, to her debilitating anxiety, Meg eventually cracks the Mathematical problem – Frieholdt’s Conjecture; the impossible problem she has spent her entire life trying to solve the morning of her Grandmother’s funeral. And […]

REVIEW: The Most Likely Club by Elyssa Friedland
11th Feb / 7 Comments

REVIEW: The Most Likely Club by Elyssa Friedland

The Most Likely Club by Elyssa Friedland: As their High School Reunion nears, Tara, Melissa, Priya and Suki take stock of the last 25 years, their achievements, their losses and use it as a pivot point to change things in their lives desperately in need of change. As we travel […]

REVIEW: The Women by Kristin Hannah
7th Feb / 7 Comments

REVIEW: The Women by Kristin Hannah

In The Women by Kristin Hannah, Frances “Frankie” McGrath thought her path in life had been mostly chosen for her, as it typically was for women in 1966: to become a nurse (or teacher or secretary) until she marries and has children. But when her older brother Finley finishes at […]

REVIEW: The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
27th Jan / 7 Comments

REVIEW: The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh

The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh: With a frenetic pace that hits crazy crescendos, this family drama/romantic comedy follows the ancient family cruse of the Duong family of women who are destined to have daughters for multiple generations to come.

REVIEW: Recipe for a Charmed Life by Rachel Linden
15th Jan / 11 Comments

REVIEW: Recipe for a Charmed Life by Rachel Linden

In Recipe for a Charmed Life by Rachel Linden, Georgia May Jackson has spent years training and honing her skills in the kitchen with her sights set on becoming head chef in a Paris restaurant. She already has two strikes against her: she’s American and she’s a woman. But just […]

REVIEW: The Sister’s We Were by Wendy Willis Baldwin
13th Jan / 8 Comments

REVIEW: The Sister’s We Were by Wendy Willis Baldwin

The Sister’s We Were by Wendy Willis Baldwin: While not a straight up romance, The Sister’s We Were is very much indeed a book about love, self-love, sibling love and the complexity of family love. Pearl, for the most part of her life has struggled with her weight, a product of […]