Review #302: A House Called Askival by Merryn Glover

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“A man's daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.”

---- Mat Johnson, an American author

Merryn Glover, a debut author, pens her extraordinary book, A House Called Askival, that tells two stories of a father and a daughter in two different timelines that run parallel like the beautiful hills in Mussoorie- a hill station in India, where the story is set. This heart-touching story provides a stunning outlook as well as the most remarkable view on my very own country and it's enriching history.

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Review #90: Becalmed by Normandie Fischer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
----Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Normandie Fischer, an American writer, penning her novel from on board her sailboat or from on shore in coastal NC, has spun another remarkable story in her new book, Becalmed which is not a perfect story yet it is beautiful in a way. Sometimes, falling in love with a match fixed by someone else is quite undeniable.

Synopsis:
When a Southern woman with a broken heart falls for a widower with a broken boat, it's anything but smooth sailing.
Tadie Longworth doesn't mind acting the maiden aunt in Beaufort, North Carolina. She has a gift shop full of her own jewelry designs and a sweet little sailboat to take her mind off the guy who got away. But now he’s back . . . with the fashion-plate wife he picked instead of Tadie . . . and he’s hitting on her again.

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Review #80: The Magdalene Mystery by Christine Sunderland

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means."
----Luke 8:1-3 (English Standard Version), Mary in the New Testament

Christine Sunderland, an American author has portrayed the most notorious and most debated theory about Mary Magdalene's life and truth in her new thriller, The Magdalene Mystery , which is a subtle tale about a middle-aged woman trying to live up to her late god father's last wish in order to bring the truth of Mary Magdalene's life in front of the whole world.

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Review #60: Godiva by Nicole Galland

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


We all know that tales of Lady Godiva- an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.

Daniel Donoghue, a Professor of English at Harvard University, has quoted remarkably about Lady Godiva:
“Would anyone remember the story of Godiva if she lowered Coventry's taxes without taking her clothes off?”

It's true, maybe, we won't even remember her good deeds, since with a negative act she tried to instill and restore the good among her countrymen, and we remembered her as the bad woman who created history. And the author, Nicole Galland, who is an award winner screenwriter, has captured Godiva's tales in her new book, Godiva dating back to some 11th century in the very English kingdom where she portrayed those women who created history by getting entitled as "pagan", meaning irreligious.


Synopsis:
Lady Godiva and her nun friend, Mother Edgiva were two most popular woman of their times, Countess Godiva was known for her cheap tricks she used to manipulate powerful men with false promises to support her husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia. Whereas Mother Edgiva was a pure virginal woman who was quite famous for her herbal medicinal treatments and of course due to her wisdom. Together with her husband, Godiva founded and endowed a Benedictine monastery at

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