Review: Fast Girls - Elise Hooper - July 2020 People who follow my book reviews will know that I often am not a fan of historical fiction but I discovered last year that I have enjoyed Historical fiction that has been written based on true events. Fast Girls captured my attention in two ways from the cover as it felt like a matte cover rather than the usual glossy covers that most books have. This did make the book feel heavier in weight. As someone who doesn't follow sports, I was unaware of the history of women entering the Olympics. Fast Girls opened my eyes to the introduction to women running and participating in track and field activities. Especially as this was back in the 1920s/1930s when women were supposed to be thin females, have jobs like secretaries, or even be someone's wife and mother. If women were athletic they were supposed to be participating in events like ice skating or gymnastics. Not track and running. These sorts of sports made women sweat and look ma...

Murder at the Met E.W. Cooper (Penelope Harris Mysteries #2) Publication date: April 8th 2021 Genres: Adult, Historical, Mystery November 1928, New York City. No one can keep a secret like high society – especially when that secret is murder. There are two things Penelope Harris would rather do than get involved with another murder—sing opera and flirt with Thom Lund. When two tickets ensure Penelope and Thom get some precious time together at the Metropolitan opera, neither believes another murder will interrupt their romantic evening. Fate has a different plan. Before the night is over a failed manufacturing tycoon is found dead at the bottom of a staircase, his poisoned and dying daughter nearby. Is it an accident? Suicide? Or murder? When a fellow soprano pleads for help, Penelope just can’t help her inquisitive nature. As Penelope pulls back the cover on a diabolical crime, Lund rushes to complete the investigation of a suicide on the Gold Coast of Long Island. What th...

Title: Grosse Pointe Author: Natalie Barnes Genre: Historical Romance (Prohibition Era); Mafia Romance The year is 1926. Champagne, pistols, and dolls… I am responsible for making sure that the booze flows and the drugs show. If trouble were to birth, all I have to do is whip out me persuaders. Kilkenny bred, New York bound, Detroit laid. This is me story. Brek O’Brien. The blood on me hands cannot lie, for they speak the truth. I’m afraid of God—however… I be not afraid of man. Savages we be. For I keep searching for that light. Then she is bestowed upon me. Gabriella… Me Love. Grosse Pointe Goodreads Read for FREE with KindleUnlimited Amazon US  |  Amazon Worldwide Ruth Etting- I’m Nobody’s Baby Blackhawk Orchestra- Yes Sir, That’s My Baby Irving Kaufman- Masculine Woman, Feminine Men Natalie Barnes resides in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula. Born and raised in the Eastern Upper Peninsula, Nata...

Title: Grosse Pointe Author: Natalie Barnes Genre: Historical Romance (Prohibition Era); Mafia Romance The year is 1926. Champagne, pistols, and dolls… I am responsible for making sure that the booze flows and the drugs show. If trouble were to birth, all I have to do is whip out me persuaders. Kilkenny bred, New York bound, Detroit laid. This is me story. Brek O’Brien. The blood on me hands cannot lie, for they speak the truth. I’m afraid of God—however… I be not afraid of man. Savages we be. For I keep searching for that light. Then she is bestowed upon me. Gabriella… Me Love. Grosse Pointe Goodreads Amazon US  |  Amazon Worldwide Detroit, Michigan 25 November 1926 Shadows swarm my vision as I try desperately to latch on to light. With the only light bestowing is the thought of  her… My ears throb as if they were a hammer, making use with nails that’d be piercing through my skull. Through the holes in my beak...

Title: Grosse Pointe Author: Natalie Barnes Genre: Historical Romance (Prohibition Era); Mafia Romance Release Date: August 7 Cover Design: By Umdet – Own work and Damonza The year is 1926. Champagne, pistols, and dolls… I am responsible for making sure that the booze flows and the drugs show. If trouble were to birth, all I have to do is whip out me persuaders. Kilkenny bred, New York bound, Detroit laid. This is me story. Brek O’Brien. The blood on me hands cannot lie, for they speak the truth. I’m afraid of God—however… I be not afraid of man. Savages we be. For I keep searching for that light. Then she is bestowed upon me. Gabriella… Me Love. Grosse Pointe Goodreads Pre-Order Today! Releasing August 7th! Amazon US  |  Amazon Worldwide Natalie Barnes resides in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula. Born and raised in the Eastern Upper Peninsula, Natalie is a tribal member to Bay Mills Indian Community. Ojibwe nati...

Review: Speak Easy, Speak Love - McKelle George - September 2017 I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George, all I knew was I had a cover crush on the book. It was also a reimagined version of Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing. Speak Easy, Speak Love is set during the time of the prohibition and follows the lives of six teenagers during what they would view as possibly the best summer and times of their lives. We have Beatrice who has been kicked out of her high-school and shipped off to live with her Uncle at their Bed and Breakfast Hey Nonny which also doubles as a speakeasy. Beatrice dreams of one day becoming a female doctor. Hero, whose parents own Hey Nonny who is the type of Diva who dreams of a better life. Benedict, who is a rich preppy boy who would instead trade in his silver spoon for this life and wants to be the next F. Scott Fitzgerald or Charles Dickens. Claude - one of his schoolmates whose along for th...