The book was slow to start, but I loved it! I love a strong female character, and she truly delivered. WWII historical fiction is one of my favorite genres. Although the ending was a bit far fetched, overall I found the book entertaining and exciting!

Excellent book and this book is really three stories in one. As with all the “#1 Ladies Detective Agency” books, the setting is Botswana and the title story centers around finding a beauty contestant who is morally sound. Also, we see Mr. J.L. B. Matekoni struggle with a personal challenge, and Mma Makutsi does outstandingly well in a new role. To read these books and know these characters is to love them and Botswana.

Given the title I was worried that this book would have a lot of characters I would have to keep track of. But it turns out it had just the right amount. A group of authors, would-be authors, critics and others meet for a conference, one part of which is a murder mystery adventure on a section of unused train in the everglades. Given the title you can imagine what happens, but given the setting, the story is take to a whole new level And I was fooled as to who the killer was. An excellent mystery.

set on a beach. Young woman is abused by her husband. She runs away faking her death. She ends up on this magical island. She often goes to the beach . Meeting new friends , starting a business and finding love.

For this book, you will not so much read it as feel it. It is all about the emotions behind a young girl in Ireland whose parents give her up to another couple to raise for a summer while the young girl’s mom has yet another baby. You will experience what it feels like to go and live with strangers, then to come to love them, only to discover that they had lost a young boy of their own. Then you will experience the sadness on everyone’s part as the young girl is taken back home to her parents so she can start school. But there may be a happy ending in sight.

What a great book! And what really make it interesting is the way it is set up. It starts out as the beginning of an MFA grad student’s dissertation but then evolves into the book itself. And while it starts off as third person narrative, at some point it becomes first person, which just adds a whole new layer to the story. And to say that the story is about a man cheating on his wife and the wife maybe cheating on her husband (you’ll have to read in order to make sense of that) does not begin to do it justice.

Laugh out loud funny. I love Sylvia!

This book is AWESOME. I would strongly recommend this to a young reader in search of a challenge.

My problem with this book was that it was categorized as a western. So I expected guys on horseback with cowboy hats who go back to a traditional ranch at night. But the only thing that makes this a western is that it takes place in the middle of the country. And instead of cowboys, you have falconers. And the only ranch here is a luxury resort that people fly their private planes to. It wasn’t an uninteresting story (it does have a group plotting to overthrow the government) but it was not what I thought it would be.

Leo loves the Stanley books. They're ok---show teamwork, fun illustrations, relatable material.