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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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When I first read this novel, it was as if scales fell from my eyes. As Hurston writes, I began to see life “like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and Doom in the branches.” Get it. Read it. Period.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, (List Price: $27.99, Amistad, 9780063068537, January 2021)

Reviewed by Jim, Righton Books in St Simons Island, GA

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Medici Heist by Caitlin Schneiderhan

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Medici Heist by Caitlin Schneiderhan
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For fans of Six of Crows and The Familiar, this high-stakes, winner-takes-all heist story is perfect for you! Travel back to the gilded world of 1500s Florence, where the sinister Medici family has an inescapable grasp on the city. Follow four talented grifters, each with their own complicated pasts, as they plot the most difficult, most thrilling heist of the century. Schneiderhan’s cinematic prose is full of family drama, quirky rivals-to-lovers romance, conversations on wealth and authority, and, to one’s surprise, cameo appearances by Michaelangelo. Medici Heist is full of charm and calculated wit, perfect for young adult and adult readers who love a bit of Robin Hood-esque thievery.

Medici Heist by Caitlin Schneiderhan, (List Price: $13.99, Square Fish, 9781250907172, August 2025)

Reviewed by Catherine Pabalate, Epilogue: Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
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Lucrezia de Medici has been the least favorite child of the powerful Grand Duke of Tuscany since birth and so has been able to grow up almost in the shadows of the royal court in Florence. At thirteen, she is betrothed to the future Duke of Ferrara- in her dead sister’s place. At fifteen, she is married to him and sent away from the only home she has ever known to a troubled court with her new, and older, husband. She has no allies in this new place save one, her handmaid. Day by day, Lucrezia discovers the cruel nature of her husband; the depth of the problems he faces in his new role as Duke; an utter aloneness since she can’t trust anyone and, superseding all else, the immediate need for her to produce an heir to cement the throne of her new family. It is no surprise this is a New York Times best-seller and a Reese’s Book Club pick- it is a wonderful work of historical fiction, and O’Farrell proves once again she is a master at this genre.

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell, (List Price: $28, Knopf, 9780593320624, September 2022)

Reviewed by Jamie Anderson, Downtown Books in Manteo, North Carolina

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