Review: Paper Castles by Terri Lee
The year is 1963. The American dream has begun to definitely show its ragged edges, and in sunny Georgia the manicured gardens kept prim and proper on lavish manor grounds reflect the lives of the listless housewives cloistered within. Savannah Palmerton had dreams once, but now she is a specter of a woman, drifting from social engagement to social engagement, with nothing in her life between the forced smiles and empty chatter of afternoon teas and garden parties.
After all, when the girl gets everything she ever dreamed of, the story always ends right there, before the stagnation of such […]
Amelia “Mel” Harper is a young woman in her twenties who works as a carpenter. She lives with her grandfather after losing her parents in an accident, an accident that brought her friends to her – Dave, a neighbor with Down Syndrome, and the firefighter, Kevin, who was involved in trying to save her parents. He’s engaged to be married, but not happily. When she starts receiving messages on scraps of paper from a mysterious man, and her dreams start becoming incredibly vivid, a perplexing trip for two she did not book pulls her to confront the signs she is […]
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