Sophia Rose is here and is sharing her thoughts on The King’s Messenger by Susanna Kearsley. Come along with her and a motley crew of seventeenth-century travelers on a road trip from England to Scotland.
Based on the early life of author G. L. Gooding’s mother, Where Courage Began tells the story of Velma, her three siblings, and her widowed mother Alice Steele. A touching historical fiction, rich in historic details, shares life in rural Iowa during the Depression Era of the 1920s.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, the author explores witchcraft and the horrors young women faced when they got in the family way 70s and end up spending time away from their loved ones at the Wayward Girls home. The horror elements were as much about what happened to these young girls as it was the witch they encounter.
If like me you are a fan of baseball, you’ll want to read Sophia Rose’s review of Home and Away by Rachelle Alers whose historical fiction shares the African American baseball hero, Jackie Robinson through the eyes of a Harper a sports journalist with ties to the league.
It’s the spooky season and the perfect time to read The Book of Witching by C.J. Cooke. In this creeptastic tale, a mother searches for answers as her daughter lays in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on the remote Orkney Islands that met a horrifying end, leaving her boyfriend dead and her best friend missing. A dark tale that moves between the present and the past.
