Svetlana's Reads and Views

  Name of Book: Island on Fire Author: Sophie Schiller ISBN:  9781986210782 Publisher: Self published Type of book: 1902, Caribbean, Martinique, Mount Pelee, exploding volcano, survival, plantation, voodoo, money, finances, politics, reform, lack of common sense  Year it was published: 2018 Summary: "A memorable romantic thriller. Schiller nicely balances history and fiction.” -Publishers Weekly In the lush, tropical world of Martinique where slavery is a distant memory and voodoo holds sway, Emilie Dujon discovers that her fiancé, a rich sugar planter, has been unfaithful. Desperate to leave him, she elicits the aid of a voodoo witch doctor and is lured into a shadowy world of black magic and extortion. When the volcano known as Mount Pelée begins to rumble and spew ash, she joins a scientific committee sent to investigate the crater. During the journey she meets Lt. Denis Rémy, an army officer with a mysterious past. At the summit, the explorers discover that a second c...

  Name of Book: Pieces of Eight Author: Steve Goble ISBN: 978-1-64506-036-9 Publisher: Seventh Street Books Part of a Series: Spider John Mysteries  Type of book: 1723, Nantucket, mystery, attack, pirates, background, settling, mysterious map, picking up life, friendship  Year it was published: 2021 Summary: 1723—Spider John is almost home, free of the horrors of the pirate life, free of the violence, free of the death. The wife and baby he left behind almost a decade ago are almost within reach. But then a murder aboard Minuet uncovers a deeper conspiracy, and soon Spider and his friends—curmudgeonly Odin, swashbuckling young Hob and alluring Ruth Copper— find themselves in the midst of flintlock smoke and bloodshed. The violence follows Spider ashore to Nantucket, where the loving reception he’d dreamed of turns out to be something utterly unexpected. Soon, Spider is running for his life and confronting cutthroats and thieves — while hiding from islanders who think he l...

  Name of Book: The Foreign Girls Author: Sergio Olguin ISBN: 978-1-913394-38-7 Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press Part of a Series: Veronica Rosenthal Mysteries  Type of book: Mystery, thriller, 2000s, vacation, experimenting, murder, classicism, eurocentric, murder, Argentina, journalism, evidence, corruption    Year it was published: (2014) 2021 Summary: Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina. Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not trusting the local police, she decides to investigate for herself. Review Foreign Girls “Foreign Girls is not only a crime novel with the thrills and pace of a roller coaster, but also a story where love is the key, justice is fundam...

  Name of Book: The Kennedy Moment Author: Peter Adamson ISBN: 9780995590052 Publisher: Myriad Editions Type of book: Mystery, 1980s, thriller, travel, friendship, unrequited love, vaccines, privilege, third world nations, first world nations, threat, chicken pox, determinations  Year it was published: 2018 Summary: Dr Michael Lowell – a mild-mannered American, unshakeably decent and at the peak of his profession – is intrigued by Stephen Walsh's invitation to a reunion of Oxford college friends. At least he'll be able to catch up with cynical advertising genius Toby Jenks and frontline medic Hélène Hevré, comparing notes on mid-life frustrations and old ideals. He’ll also have to face Seema Mir, the serene young woman from Karachi who rejected him twenty years ago because he was 'just a little bit too dull’. He expects a congenial weekend; instead they seed a conspiracy that could rock the foundations of the US government. Moving between Oxford, New York, Washington, Genev...

Name of Book: The Secret Lives of Dentists Author: W.A. Winter ISBN: 978-1-64506-031-4 Publisher: Seventh Street books Type of book: 1955-1956, USA, mystery, Minnesotta, anti-Judaism , dentists, ethics, bias, police, cheating, affairs, Minneapolis, marriage, stalking, obsession Year it was published: 2021 Summary: In 1955, small-town girls flock to Minneapolis for work, love, and adventure. But Teresa Hickman, from Dollar, North Dakota, is a special case. Beguiling. Promiscuous. And, on a chilly April morning, dead along an abandoned trolley track in a Southside neighborhood. Teresa Hickman was three months pregnant when she was strangled. Was the unborn child’s father also her killer? Could the killer have been––among the many men drawn to her like flies to honey––Dr. H. David Rose, a middle-aged dentist who admits he was with her the night she died? There’s no forensic evidence or credible witnesses tying him to the murder. Yet the police, including a pair of obsessive investigators ...

It's May, and I still didn't win anything from goodreads. I also am feeling kind of cursed because recently I discovered a Jewish female/ Korean male romance that I had paid attention to earlier, but yeah. THE EX TALK BY Rachel Lynn Solomon, and I will most likely have to wait until my birthday to get it which is in October.( Changed my mind and decided that I don't want it...) Other than that, I am looking forward to my reads for this month which include Rena Rossners new book as well as Helene Wecker's sequel to THE DJINNI AND THE GOLEM.  Book tours/ spotlights:  The secret lives of dentists by W.A Winter The Kennedy Moment by Peter Adamson  The Foreign Girls by Sergio Olguin  Pieces of of Eight by Steve Goble  Island on fire by Sophie Schiller  Possible reads: Burnt toast makes you sing good by Kathleen Flinn Here there elsewhere By William Least Heat Moon  The tumbling Turner sisters by Juliette Fay  The Light of the Midnight Stars by Rena Ros...

Josefinas sin- Claudia H Long SR: May 6th, 2021 FR:   Phantom Money- Alexander S. O'Keefe  SR: May 14th, 2021 FR: May 22nd, 2021 The land beyond the sea- Sharon Kay Penman  SR: March 18th, 2021 FR: May 14th, 2021 The Light of the Midnight Stars- Rena Rossner  SR: May 14th, 2021 FR:  Island on fire- Sophie Schiller SR: April 10th, 2021 FR: May 15th, 2021 An invincible summer- Mariah Stewart SR: April 30th, 2021 FR: May 17th, 2021 The HIDDEN palace- Helene Wecker SR: May 15th, 2021 FR:  Nonfiction