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Top Ten Debuts I Read in 2016 (+Giveaway!)

1.   Dancing with the Tiger  by Lili Wright I loved this one - the setting, the mystery, the writing. Can't wait to read what this author writes next!  My review HERE .  2.  The Hating Game   by Sally Thorne Such a perfect love/hate romance! Funny and swoon-worthy! 3.  An Innocent Fashion  by R.J. Hernández This wasn't anything like I expected but it was juicy in its prose and plot and seriously lovely all the same.  My review  HERE . 4.   Fill the Sky  by Katherine A. Sherbrooke I've thought about this book so many times since I read it - I just can't get it out of my head - the setting and the characters feel so real to me.  My review HERE . 5.   The Smell of Other People's Houses   by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock This book was so beautiful and so unexpected.  My review HERE . 6.   Sweetbitter  by Stephanie Danl...

Review: Modern Girls by Jennifer S. Brown

Modern Girls by Jennifer S. Brown Blurb from Goodreads : A dazzling debut novel set in New York City’s Jewish immigrant community in 1935... How was it that out of all the girls in the office, I was the one to find myself in this situation? This didn’t happen to nice Jewish girls. In 1935, Dottie Krasinsky is the epitome of the modern girl. A bookkeeper in Midtown Manhattan, Dottie steals kisses from her steady beau, meets her girlfriends for drinks, and eyes the latest fashions. Yet at heart, she is a dutiful daughter, living with her Yiddish-speaking parents on the Lower East Side. So when, after a single careless night, she finds herself in a family way by a charismatic but unsuitable man, she is desperate: unwed, unsure, and running out of options. After the birth of five children—and twenty years as a housewife—Dottie’s immigrant mother, Rose, is itching to return to the social activism she embraced as a young woman. ...