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Tall Poppy Review: Festivities Are in Full Swing in High-Spirited Rom-Com

It’s that magical time of year — October — when Christmas starts its convivial seep into our daily lives. Ornaments and pine boughs appear at Target, Hallmark Channel starts teasing their holiday movie line-up, and ambitious decorators string up lights while the weather is still warm (is that only me?).…

Amy ReichertOctober 7, 2021

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

Sonali Dev’s New Austen-Inspired Release “The Emma Project” Is Sublime Romance at Its Best

I’ve been waiting with bated breath for the release of The Emma Project (Avon), Sonali Dev’s fourth book in her Jane Austen retellings series. With each book in the series — from Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors to A Recipe for Persuasion to Incense and Sensibility — Dev treated readers…

Priscilla OliverasMay 19, 2022

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Tif Marcelo Combines Tropes With a Moving Marriage-of-Convenience-in-Trouble Romance

Marriage of convenience is a common trope beloved among romance readers, though perhaps more often found in historicals. However, in Know You by Heart (Montlake), Book 2 in Tif Marcelo’s Heart Resort series, readers are treated to a contemporary version of the trope, with the added twists of the marriage-in-trouble and…

Priscilla OliverasApril 14, 2022

Fiction Romance

Tall Poppy Review: “It Takes Heart” Also Has Plenty of Soul

I must start with the admission that stories about second chances at love, especially second chances at first love, are my catnip. It’s my very favorite Romance genre trope. Assuaging the pain of losing the one who got away is the perfect redemptive metaphor for getting a redo on life’s…

Sonali DevAugust 19, 2021

Fiction Romance

Tall Poppy Review: Marrying Jane Austen to Contemporary Cali Charisma

Retellings of Jane Austen novels could be their own section in the bookstore, adding a new shelf's worth each year. Some are quite literal, others are barely recognizable and some are delicately perfect, capturing the spirit of Austen without sacrificing organic storytelling. Sonali Dev’s latest novel, Incense and Sensibility (William Morrow…

Amy ReichertAugust 5, 2021

Fiction Romance

Tall Poppy Review: “The Kindred Spirits Supper Club” Is a Heartwarming Read

In Amy E. Reichert's The Kindred Spirits Supper Club (Berkley), down-on-her-luck Sabrina Monroe returns home to Wisconsin after a splashy journalism job in Washington D.C. goes awry. She dreads reconciling with fake friends and ex-boyfriends who are best left in the past, but most of all, she’s anxious about the…

Heather WebbApril 22, 2021

Fiction Romance

Tall Poppy Review: “Under the Southern Sky” Shines With Effortless Storytelling

In Under the Southern Sky, Kristy Woodson Harvey masterfully weaves four points of view together with a friends-to-lovers story of grief, second chances and deep generational friendship. Amelia Buxton thought her life was on the right track. A successful journalist and reporter just published in The New York Times, and…

Tif MarceloApril 29, 2021

Fiction Romance

Tall Poppy Review: Spice Up Summer With Austen-Flavored Romance

Recipe for Persuasion (William Morrow), the second installment in Sonali Dev’s brilliant new “Raje series,” is a lovely reimagining of the classic Austen tale. For those new to the series, Dev takes Jane Austen’s beloved storylines and reimagines them in modern-day Los Angeles with the prominent Indian-American Raje family and…

Aimie K. RunyanJune 11, 2020

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Family Heirloom Connects an Heiress of America’s Past to Quests in a Fictional Present

Say the words “family keepsake,” and anyone in earshot will likely know what you mean. We humans have been passing down heirlooms to our children and our children’s children and their children for centuries. Often, it’s not the keepsake itself that is of value, but rather what it symbolizes to…

Susan MeissnerMarch 31, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Jessica Strawser’s Latest Meditates on Compassion and Dignity at Life’s Inevitable End

Engaging and meticulously plotted, Jessica Strawser’s The Next Thing You Know (St. Martin’s Press) is a character study, a call for compassion and empathy, and a hopeful read. Nova Hudson is an end-of-life doula with Parting Your Way, a two-person end-of-life doula service in Cincinnati, OH, with Kelly Monroe, its…

Tif MarceloMarch 24, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Two Hopeful Women Grapple With America’s Broken Promises at Ellis Island

Through the story of the immigrant, hopefully looking up at the Statue of Liberty and the U.S. several generations ago, we can imagine some of our great-great-grandparents as they nervously clutched their papers, praying they would be admitted to a country they were told would offer them opportunities beyond any…

Aimie K. RunyanFebruary 10, 2022

Fiction

Holiday Movies, Holiday Memories: 5 Bestselling Authors Gift Readers “It’s a Wonderful Christmas”

No matter what kind of year it’s been or what’s going on in the world, people who celebrate Christmas find a way to celebrate Christmas. Maybe the gatherings are smaller, or the presents more from the heart than the wallet, but the spirit, meaning and traditions of that holiday are…

Kelly SimmonsNovember 25, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Two Very Different Cultures Find Common Ground in the Freedom of Music

In such a crowded market, it’s difficult to find new approaches and new stories, but Weina Dai Randel manages to do just this in her sweeping saga The Last Rose of Shanghai (Lake Union). There have been few stories about the Jewish pogrom as well as the oppression of the…

Aimie K. RunyanNovember 11, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Ex-Best Friends Take an Absurdly Humorous Road Trip

During the past several months, who hasn’t dreamed of shaking things up, grabbing her girlfriends, heading on a road trip, and seeing lots of new places along the way? Samantha Arias and Holly Dunfee, the protagonists of bestselling author Ann Garvin’s latest page-turner, that’s who. In I Thought You Said…

Kristy HarveyMay 27, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Women’s Life Upends as 1906 Earthquake Strikes

"A harrowing cable-car ride through early 20th century San Francisco, where dark secrets — like the city itself — crack wide open." — Stephanie Dray, author of America’s First Daughter —∞— “A brilliant story of resilience and the power of female friendship." — Marie Benedict, author of The Mystery of…

Weina Dai RandelFebruary 11, 2021

Tall Poppy Review: Festivities Are in Full Swing in High-Spirited Rom-Com

Sonali Dev’s New Austen-Inspired Release “The Emma Project” Is Sublime Romance at Its Best

Tif Marcelo Combines Tropes With a Moving Marriage-of-Convenience-in-Trouble Romance

Tall Poppy Review: “It Takes Heart” Also Has Plenty of Soul

Tall Poppy Review: Marrying Jane Austen to Contemporary Cali Charisma

Tall Poppy Review: “The Kindred Spirits Supper Club” Is a Heartwarming Read

Tall Poppy Review: “Under the Southern Sky” Shines With Effortless Storytelling

Tall Poppy Review: Spice Up Summer With Austen-Flavored Romance

Family Heirloom Connects an Heiress of America’s Past to Quests in a Fictional Present

Jessica Strawser’s Latest Meditates on Compassion and Dignity at Life’s Inevitable End

Two Hopeful Women Grapple With America’s Broken Promises at Ellis Island

Holiday Movies, Holiday Memories: 5 Bestselling Authors Gift Readers “It’s a Wonderful Christmas”

Tall Poppy Review: Two Very Different Cultures Find Common Ground in the Freedom of Music

Tall Poppy Review: Ex-Best Friends Take an Absurdly Humorous Road Trip

Tall Poppy Review: Women’s Life Upends as 1906 Earthquake Strikes

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