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THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR Book Review

Posted on by CJ | A Well-Read Tart
First of all, can we all just take a moment to acknowledge how much the cover for The Girl in the Mirror looks like the cover for Desperate Girls? Second of all...is it weird that I called the entire story, from beginning to end? Nothing about The Girl in the Mirror surprised me. Like, NOTHING. And I don't think it's because I'm just that brilliant (I'm not). It's because author Rose Carlyle dropped a lot of super-obvious clues throughout the...

THE EXILES Book Review

Posted on by CJ | A Well-Read Tart
It's not often I yell out "Holy Crap!" while reading historical fiction. But that's exactly what I did smack in the middle of The Exiles. Let's just say the story took a very unexpected turn. Bravo, Christina Baker Kline, for such a bold move. I continually seek out historical fiction novels that doesn't revolve around WW2, and when I saw the ad for The Exiles  -- a story about English female convicts and an Aboriginal girl set in 1840s...