Title: The Clockmaker’s Wife
Author: Daisy Wood
My Rating:⭐⭐
Why I gave this rating: I really was bored with this book. I was reading it just for it to be over. It wasn’t a typical historical fiction that engaged me and kept me interested. I’m not sure why I didn’t get into but I found the general premise kind of lacking.
Title: Violeta
Author: Isabel Allende
My Rating:⭐⭐⭐
Why I gave this rating: I’ve read a few of Isabel’s books, and I have yet to be really wowed by the ones I’ve read. I know a lot of people that love her writing, and I’m just not there yet. I find it the general plots of her books very interesting, but struggle to dive deeper than that. Learning about Mexico throughout the last 100 years is fascinating cause so much has changed between then and now. If there are certain Allende’s books I should be checking out please let me know.
People who would like this book: Readers wanting to read more about Mexican culture.
Favorite Quote: “Sometimes our fates take turns that we don’t notice in the moment they occur, but if you live as long as I have they become clear in hindsight.”
Title: The Golden Couple
Author: Greer Hendricks
My Rating:⭐(.5)
Why I gave this rating: This book was the worst! Like the most cliche thriller and plot possible. Was just not my vibe. You had to wait to like 75% before any action really happened and it definitely didn’t make it worth it. Like any thriller it was a very quick read, so that was the only nice thing I will say about it. I don’t understand the hype of the book.
Title: Next Year in Havana
Author: Chanel Cleeton
My Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐
Why I gave this rating: This was my second book by Cleeton set in Cuba, and at the half way point, I was really just ok with this book. It felt like a lot of just meh. There was some romance, some history but nothing really grabbed me. Then it felt like the pace picked up and it made me really start to enjoy the book. Cuba is fascinating to me, and I think Chanel Cleeton does a great job of writing about their culture and having the reader wanting to learn more. The second half easily made up for the beginning.
People who would like this book: Fans of forbidden love. Historical Fiction set in Cuba. People wanting to read about what it may have been like under Castro’s reign.
Favorite Quote: “Perhaps we’re the dreamers in all of this. The hopeful ones. Dreaming of a Cuba we cannot see with our eyes, that we cannot touch, whose taste lingers on our palates, with the tang of memory. The exiles are the historians, the memory keepers of a lost Cuba, one that’s nearly forgotten”.
Title: Four Treasures of the Sky
Author: Jenny Tinghui Zhang
My Rating:⭐⭐(.5)
Why I gave this rating: I think it’s saying something if I read this a week ago and I couldn’t tell you a single thing good or bad about this book. Just wasn’t very memorable. I’m sure there were parts I liked, but I am struggling to come up with anything that stands out.
People who would like this book: People looking to read more about the Chinese folklore.
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