eARC Review: The Lady Upstairs, by Halley Sutton

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Categories: Mystery, Noir, Psychological Thriller, F/F

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I received an advance copy via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

Jo has been working for the Lady Upstairs for three years , and is so close to paying her debt. She makes ends meet by finding the perfect girl to seduce a powerful, awful man and with her help, blackmail him for the things they do to the girls. Things start going wrong when one of the girls starts falling in love with her mark, and then things escalate and she finds herself dealing with a dead body.

Review: Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellmann

Rating: ★★★★☆

Categories: Literary Fiction

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Ducks, Newburyport is told through the stream of consciousness of a housewife in Ohio. Her thoughts meander through her daily routine, baking pies, her four children, the current news, the state of the world and memories of her life. It’s a story that gets woven with every page, and as you are literally reading what goes through the mind of the main character for a thousand pages, it’s quite delightful that she’s funny and the book goes so seamlessly into more serious topics or random thoughts,.

It is incredibly difficult to rate this. At times, when it bore me a little, I wanted to give it 3 stars – then the next page I was in awe of this book, the intricate, rich inner life of our protagonist and the impressive writing style and want to give it 5 stars. In the end, I compromised with 4, although I have a feeling I will change it to 5 at some point.

The Sunday Snuggle: January Wrap Up, February TBR & more, W5/2020

Hello readers!

How is it February, oh my gosh, one entire month of 2020 is over and I’m still writing 2019 on the dates. My Ducks, Newburyport saga is done! I am quite glad to be able to pick up new books now, although I did like it very much!