Women's Divorce Fiction

Touching Novel About Old Friends Shows It’s Never Too Late for Forgiveness

Helen Iannucci Spencer thought she could outrun her past, but somehow, it keeps catching up to her. What feels like a lifetime later, she thinks she has buried everything that happened between her and her childhood friend, Cal Crosby. But when the past comes barreling into her life in the…

Megan BeauregardApril 11, 2023

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A Poignant Tale of Pursuing Romance in the Face of Loss and Long-Kept Secrets

When We Let Go (Lake Union Publishing) is a love story for grown-ups, with all the life-stuff grown-ups must deal with — from first loves, shattered hopes and losses to family dynamics and teenaged angst. Rochelle Weinstein is good at telling stories like this. This is her sixth such novel,…

Sherri DaleyAugust 3, 2022

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Second-Chance Romance Celebrates Southern Black Culture and Cuisine

When I saw the cover for Kennedy Ryan’s newest novel Before I Let Go (Forever), I thought two things: first, I wondered if she was expanding into women’s fiction, and second, that it had been a long time since I’d been to a party (more on that later). But above…

Y. M. NelsonNovember 17, 2022

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ITW Spotlight: Madness Takes Hold as Sleep Evades a High-Powered Lawyer

For Emma Averell — the protagonist in Sarah Pinborough’s twisty new thriller — her crippling insomnia has made her question whether she’s slowly going insane, like the mother she’s worked so hard to forget. For years, Emma has happily balanced her life as a high-powered lawyer, mother to two beautiful…

Dawn IusApril 12, 2022

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Valerie Taylor Doubles the Drama With New Love Interests in Her Sequel “What’s Not True”

You don’t have to read Valerie Taylor’s first book — What’s Not Said — in order to find yourself delightfully immersed in the goings-on in her second, What’s Not True (She Writes Press). Taylor’s a master at making sure new readers aren’t lost, slipping in important details from the back…

Sherri DaleyAugust 24, 2021

Fiction

Mary Adkins’ “Palm Beach” Serves as a Twisted Alternative to Your Average Beach Read

Why is it that any book with “beach” in the title automatically gets slotted in a weird sub-genre called “beach read,” implying a frothy, ephemeral confection and, frequently, a romance novel? Mary Adkins’ Palm Beach (HarperCollins) has been described as such in several publications, but this reviewer feels the designation…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 3, 2021

Fiction

“We Are the Brennans” and We Are On Board With This Novel of Family Secrets and Loyalty

Complex and realistic family dynamics take center stage in Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans: A Novel (Celadon Books). In an era when fictional families are almost always tiny — when authors seem wary of giving much airtime to more than a couple of characters — it’s refreshing to see…

Kirsten MacdissiAugust 6, 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

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Indian American Journalist Investigates Violence Enacted in the Name of “Honor”

“A woman can live in one of two houses — fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time.” I loved Honor (Algonquin Books), an emotional, thought-provoking story, and the incredible writing of the author, Thrity Umrigar. Smita Agarwal, an Indian American reporter from Brooklyn cuts…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 5, 2022

Fiction

Leesa Cross-Smith Writes a Sensitive and Touching Fiction in “This Close to Okay”

Two strangers meet by chance, put just enough trust in one another to share bits of their past, spend one intense weekend together and end up saving each other … what’s not to love? This Close To Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith kept me engrossed from beginning to end and was…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 12, 2021

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BookTrib Giveaway: Two New Tales of Intrigue in Women’s Fiction

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/booktrib_giveaway_2021-09-02-feature-scaled.jpg What’s Not True by Valerie Taylor —∞— “A tense nerve-shredder ... compelling, real, and utterly enjoyable.” —Readers’ Favorite 5-star review “An engaging story of love, honesty, tangled family relationships, jealousy, and ambition.” —Midwest Book Review “A dramatic, comedic telenovela of a women’s fiction about infidelity and fickle hearts ... with…

BookTribSeptember 2, 2021

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7 Books On What Comes After Happily Ever After … Falls Apart

Divorce is almost always messy. In marriage, two become one, but in its ugly stepsister, one becomes two. It’s an emotional chasm, the Mariana’s Trench of relationship deconstruction. Beyond the gut-wrenching, heartrending, cry-while-listening-to-Taylor Swift elements of the whole horrid affair (extra horrid if an affair is what broke up the…

Judy MorenoOctober 5, 2021

Women’s Divorce Fiction

Touching Novel About Old Friends Shows It’s Never Too Late for Forgiveness

A Poignant Tale of Pursuing Romance in the Face of Loss and Long-Kept Secrets

ITW Spotlight: Madness Takes Hold as Sleep Evades a High-Powered Lawyer

Valerie Taylor Doubles the Drama With New Love Interests in Her Sequel “What’s Not True”

Mary Adkins’ “Palm Beach” Serves as a Twisted Alternative to Your Average Beach Read

“We Are the Brennans” and We Are On Board With This Novel of Family Secrets and Loyalty

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

Indian American Journalist Investigates Violence Enacted in the Name of “Honor”

Leesa Cross-Smith Writes a Sensitive and Touching Fiction in “This Close to Okay”

BookTrib Giveaway: Two New Tales of Intrigue in Women’s Fiction

7 Books On What Comes After Happily Ever After … Falls Apart

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