Author: Rach

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ¼ (Goodreads: 4.09) GENRE: Historical Fiction PART OF A SERIES? No WORTH READING? Yes  SUMMARY: Two women are connected by a splendid scarf that has been passed down through the generations… September 1911 — Nurse Clara cannot bear returning to Manhattan from Ellis Island, which holds too many painful memories for her, specifically of…

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ¼ (Goodreads: 4.31) GENRE: Fiction PART OF A SERIES? No WORTH READING? Yes   SUMMARY: Eudora Honeysett feels that she has lived a full life. She has sent enquiries off to a clinic in Switzerland, so that she may end her life exactly how she wants to. Into Eudora’s life, comes a friendly neighbour,…

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1/4 (Goodreads: 4.15) GENRE: Fiction PART OF A SERIES? No WORTH READING? Yes   SUMMARY: Artifice is based on two heroes of WWII history: Han Van Meegeren, an art forger who sold fakes to Nazis, and Johann van Hulst, credited with saving hundreds of Jewish children from death in Amsterdam. In Artifice, Isa de…

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ¼ (Goodreads: 4.14) GENRE: Contemporary African Fiction PART OF A SERIES? Yes (sequel to The Girl with the Louding Voice) WORTH READING? Yes   SUMMARY: Tia’s mother is dying and Tia overhears a conversation between her mother and aunt that makes her question all that she believes about her life. Adunni, the gorgeous teenager…

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ½ (Goodreads: 4.27)  GENRE: Fiction (Drama and Mystery) PART OF A SERIES? No WORTH READING? Yes   SUMMARY: When Joseph ‘Patch’ Macauley (AKA ‘the pirate’) witnesses a masked man assaulting a girl in the woods, he intervenes to save her, but, in doing so, becomes kidnapped himself. All the Colors of the Dark (All the…

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ½ (Goodreads: 4.48) GENRE: Legal Thriller PART OF A SERIES? No WORTH READING? Yes   SUMMARY: A Calamity of Souls is a historical legal thriller set in 1968 in Freeman County, southern Virginia, during the height of the Civil Rights movement. The story centres on a racially charged murder case that captures national attention. Jack…