Reviews by Patricia C. (Naples, FL)

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The Fertile Earth: A Novel
by Ruthvika Rao
A Poignant Story of Love Amid Social Inequities (5/29/2024)
Two brothers from the servant class of India's caste system, two sisters from the highest social class whose family own the land and thus the entire economy of the southeastern area of India are the stars of this well written love.

The author explores how love between themore
The Flower Sisters
by Michelle Collins Anderson
A Character Driven Novel (2/18/2024)
As I read "The Flower Sisters" and was introduced to the characters of this fictional Ozark town, I felt this is a novel about real people. Not only are the twin Flower sisters's characters well developed, but also the several people who had been part of a horrificmore
Banyan Moon: A Novel
by Thao Thai
A superb debut novel (5/16/2023)
Thao Thai has written a beautiful novel about three bright and beautiful women with Vietnamese background. Two were born in Vietnam and lived through the war years and the one is born in America of Vietnamese parents. Grandmother, mother and daughter are all narrators, thusmore
The Little Italian Hotel: A Novel
by Phaedra Patrick
The Healing of Broken Hearts (4/4/2023)
Our heroine is very good at giving advice about heartaches to others. However when her own heart breaks, she discovers the healing power of friendship even with people who were once strangers to her; and the healing power of spending three weeks in the Italian country sidemore
Homestead: A Novel
by Melinda Moustakis
A Beautifully Written First Novel (1/14/2023)
Homestead by Melinda Moustakis is a beautifully writte novel about two people with damaged pasts attempting to start over in the the Territory of Alaska. But this novel is so much more--it is of a marriage made in haste, the attempt to make it work as they are trying tomore
Clytemnestra: A Novel
by Costanza Casati
A Fascinating Woman from Mythology (11/9/2022)
The author has managed to give us a fascinating portrait of a woman who in Greek mythology was known only as a revengeful queen. However, Clytemnestra was so much more. She is in fact a very complex figure according to the novel's author. She is strong, intelligent, caringmore
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
by Zhuqing Li
A Fascinating Portrait of Courage (5/13/2022)
This non fiction book reads like a novel--it literally is a page turner as the reader is eager to see what happens to these two sisters whose lives were shaped by the political turmoil of the Communist Revolution in China in the 1940's.

Jun and Hong Chen were two years apart,more
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