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Women of a Promiscuous Nature | Donna Everhart

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💙📚BOOK REVIEW 📚💙

⭐️WOMEN OF A PROMISCUOUS NATURE BY DONNA EVERHART⭐️

⭐️QUICK THOUGHTS ⭐️

⭐️This book will infuriate you and break your heart but you need to read it!

⭐️This book had me researching!

https://reecaspieces.com/2025/12/04/women-of-a-promiscuous-nature-by-donna-everh...

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The Restoration Garden: A Novel | Sara Blaydes

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3.5 Stars • In The Restoration Garden by Sara Blaydes, landscape architect Julia restores Havenworth Manor‘s neglected gardens, finding a WWII-era diary by Margaret. It reveals a family scandal of alleged treason. With Margaret‘s godson Andrew, Julia decodes floral clues, uncovering secrets of love and heroism while healing her own past.

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Love, Sex & Frankenstein: A gothic feminist tale of Mary Shelley and the stormy summer that birthed a monstrous new literature | Caroline Lea

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This was an insightful look into the creation of Frankenstein!

I read Frankenstein earlier this year and loved it, so naturally I had to read this book. I was impressed that Mary Shelley wrote a masterpiece at age 19.

The best part of the book was the depiction of female rage. Mary‘s rage starts off quietly and then slowly simmers into an inferno.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/review-love-sex-and-frankenstein/

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IriDas I hadn‘t heard of this book. I studied Frankenstein multiple times in uni (English major) and was never satisfied with my professor‘s portrayal of Mary. They always made her sound like some frivolous little girl and brushed me off when I questioned her relationship with Percy (I‘m not a fan lol). 1mo

oddandbookish @IriDas She‘s definitely not a frivolous little girl in this one! Her relationship with Percy is portrayed as incredibly complicated. 1mo

BookwormAHN Sounds fantastic 🐈‍⬛ 1mo

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Love, Sex & Frankenstein: A gothic feminist tale of Mary Shelley and the stormy summer that birthed a monstrous new literature | Caroline Lea

"For all his talk about free love, he has never truly wanted her to be with another man. He offered her freedom because he never believed her capable of taking it."

Oh. Hell. Yeah.

Really enjoying this!

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Whistling Women and Crowing Hens | Melora Fern

“Author‘s grandmother inspires 1920s-era historical fiction novel on Chautauqua circuit.

After finding a box of mementos and learning that her grandmother, Verna Hintz Kurtz, traveled with the Versatile Quintet in the Swarthmore Chautauqua circuit as a trombone player and performance whistler in the 1920s, Melora Fern was inspired to write her debut novel, “Whistling Women and Crowing Hens.”

https://tinyurl.com/7vzj26pd

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