The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan is the author’s debut novel, a book about motherhood set in a slightly dystopian reality. I love a good dystopian novel, and the premise was intriguing to me. In the School for Good Mothers, Frida is recently separated from her husband and has joint custody of their …
Chapter 1 In the afternoon on the first Thursday of September, Frida, 39, receives a phone call letting her know that her baby daughter, Harriet, is at the police station. She calls her ex-husband, Gust, who she shares custody of Harriet with, to let him know as well. At the station, they chide Frida for …
Prologue Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Several Months Later Epilogue Prologue In the prologue, the narrator talks about how she cleans people’s rooms which allows her to know everything about them. However, they know very little about her. Monday Chapter 1 Molly Gray, 25, works as a maid at Regency Grand Hotel, an art-deco-styled five-star …
The Maid by Nita Prose first caught my eye a few months ago because an author I follow on twitter had read an early copy of it and recommended it. I was immediately drawn to it’s colorful book trailer (see the video embedded above) and the premise of a cozy murder mystery set in a …
Under the Whispering Door is the newest release by T.J. Klune. I read his previous novel House in the Cerulean Sea not too long ago and thought it was rather charming story, and so I was eager to revisit his writing. In Under the Whispering Door, a not-very-nice man named Wallace dies and has to …
