Books by Sarah Jio
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review 1: This book jumps between two characters from two different decades… Addison from present day and Flora from the 1940's. Flora is searching for a rare camellia that will provide her with the means to help her indebted parents, and Addison is hiding from a past that she is afraid w...
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review 1: Oh, Sarah Jio. Where have you been hiding all this time? I read Goodnight June and was immediately drawn to Jio's writing. Now I am going back to her previous novels to see where she started and I was not disappointed. The Violets of March weaves past and present almost effortles...
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review 1: Annelik duygusunu iliklerimize kadar hissettiren, bir annenin çocuğu için neleri göze alabileceğini tüm gerçekliğiyle ortaya koyan Sarah jio bu kitabında oldukça iyi bir iş çıkarmış... Clear, yıllar önce çocuğunu kaybeden bir annenin hikayesini araştırırken, araştırmalarının sonu...
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review 1: The Bungalow was just stupid, predictable, and trash. Sorry, not much to say that is positive. This book should be historical romance and not literature or fiction. Poor writing with a stupid plot made for a boring (and short) read. There was no character development and the ...
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review 1: Another enjoyable read by Ms. Jio. The story revolves around an old estate, Livingston Manor, and a variety of camellia flower that is the last of its kind in England. As a dual-narrative, I really liked Flora, the main character/narrator from the past. She's sweet and means well...
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review 1: History, mystery, crime, and romance! This is the fourth Sarah Jio book I read in a row, and as the others, it earned a 4 or 5-star rating. This book follows the pattern that Sarah Jio has used in other books, where chapters alternate between the present day and an earlier time...
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review 1: I quite enjoyed this book! It was intriguing to read about Penny in the past, then about Ada in the present. I felt sorry for both Penny and Ada considering the circumstances that they were both presented with. It was such a touching story, and I am quite satisfied with the endin...
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review 1: Terrific central premise (signifcant, long-ago friendship between 'Goodnight Moon' author Margaret Wise Brown and the main character's beloved aunt uncovered) utterly eclipsed (ha -- sorry for the pun!) by overwrought plotting and painfully bad writing. I understand this author h...
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review 1: Another "Feel Good" gem from Sarah Jio. The one thing that bothered me about Jio's writing was that every character "grinned" or said something "with a grin". After a while, each time I heard the word grin with it's many variations, (I listened on my phone while walking the dog),...
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review 1: This is a good story. It is an engrossing story of a young 30'ish woman, Emily, whose husband has left her so she goes for a month to visit her aunt on Bainbridge Island. There is all kinds of mystery surrounding her aunt and her mother. Emily finds an old diary which she hope...
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review 1: Psssst. I have a secret. When you hear those words, especially with a lowered voice, it gets your attention. This novel is all about family secrets. The story holds added fascination with most of its action set on beautiful Bainbridge Island. Vivid writing brings the Island to li...
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review 1: Enjoyed the story of discovery of a diary and the diary's story paralleling the modern day story but some characters were introduced never to be seen again and there was a possible goof-up in the relationships between the diary and "now" when a character says "why didn't she come...
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review 1: İçimde bir yerlerde bir deprem olduğunu hissediyorum. Hani şöyle sol tarafa doğru, her insanın korktuğunda koruma içgüdüsüyle tutunduğu ilk yer. Henüz yetişkin bir birey bile değilim ama Sarah Jio'nun kitaplarını okurken anneliği, bir insana eş olmayı, aşkı hissetmeyi, acıyı ve i...
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review 1: I had never read a book by Sarah Jio, but I'm so glad I have. Blackberry Winter is a wonderful story of loss and finding hope. The story is told by two woman, one in 1933 and the other one in present day. The chapters alternate between the two women and is very easy to follow alo...
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review 1: Oh my goodness. This was my first book by Sarah Jio and I absolutely loved this book. it was amazing! I love the whole present day to the past, with her telling her granddaughter her story. The writing was awesome and made you feel very relatable to the main character and what sh...
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review 1: There were two parallel stories in this book - one taking place in present day and one taking place about 50 years earlier. Sometimes the parallel stories were too similar and I found myself thinking, didn't we already know that? The stories ended up being very intertwined, whi...
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review 1: A gorgeous, haunting, exquisite story... I was pulled in from the first installment. There was 'something' about the story that pulled me in and wouldn't let go :).We're dropped into the lives of Ada and Penny, two different women living different lives yet they more in common th...