1. THESE GIRLS in Entertainment Weekly 

Sarah Pekkanen’s new novel THESE GIRLS received a great review in Entertainment Weekly. Here is a highlight:

Stories about bright, ambitious young women learning to navigate the trickeries of New York City life aren’t exactly new territory — just ask Edith Wharton or Mary McCarthy. But Sarah Pekkanen (The Opposite of Me) deftly weaves together the lives of roommates and friends inThese Girls, the very different Cate, Renee, and Abby — each battling demons, professional and otherwise — and within a few pages you’ll find yourself emotionally invested in all of them. The surprisingly good news is that this author knows ”happily ever after” doesn’t necessarily involve a cute guy. B+

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Sarah’s third novel, THESE GIRLS, will be published on April 10. “Sarah Pekkanen’s latest celebrates the healing power of female friendship for three very different young women sharing a New York City apartment. By turns bittersweet, laugh-out-loud funny, and painfully real, you’ll want to move in with these girls” ~ NYT bestseller Jodi Picoult.

2. THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME on Book Chick Review! 

The reviews for Allison Winn Scotch’s new novel are pouring in. Here is a highlight from one of the latest on Book Chick Review:

I can’t imagine what it would be like to wake up in a hospital with my memory wiped clean, unable to recognize the people around me who claimed to be my loved ones. Allison Winn Scotch takes this frightening scenario and thoroughly examines it in The Song Remains the Same. What I especially enjoyed about how Winn Scotch chose to address the situation is that she took a unique take on it. Despite the fact that her family loves her, they don’t necessarily want her to recover her memories- at least not all of them. Each of her family members, he husband, her mom, and her sister, all have their own agendas and their own ways of spinning the truth in their favour, leaving Nell unable to separate the facts from fiction. The only person who doesn’t seem to have an agenda is the other person who survived the plane crash, Anderson Carroll, a famous movie star, but he remains haunted by the plane crash and the fact that he survived while so many others did not.

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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a novel that asks the question, who are we without our memories?  And how much of our future is defined by our past?

One of only two survivors of a plane crash, Nell Slattery wakes in the hospital with no memory of the crash – or who she is, or was. Now she must piece together both body and mind — with the help of family and friends who have their own agendas.  She filters through photos, art, music and stories, hoping something will jog her memory, and soon – in tiny bits and pieces –Nell starts remembering…It isn’t long before she learns to question the stories presented by her mother, her sister and business partner, and her husband.  In the end she will learn that forgiving betrayals small and large will be the only true path to healing herself — and to finding happiness.

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4. THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME on Shelf Awareness

We told you that the reviews keep pouring in for Allison Winn Scotch’s new novel THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME. Here is a highlight from Shelf Awareness:

“Specifics of the crash are barely discussed in favor of Nell’s disheartening discovery of her uptight previous self–nicknamed “The Ice Queen”–and her closet full of beige clothes. She becomes determined to reinvent herself as a vibrant, self-expressed woman who lives her passions; music is the only thing that jogs her foggy memory. (Hence the book’s title.)

Winn Scotch’s novel will cause any reader to daydream about the possibility of starting over and breaking free from the identity we present to the world. While there is surely frustration in forgetting one’s past, The Song Remains the Same is a reminder that there is also a strange liberation in the obliteration of all that we know. —Natalie Papailiou, author of blog MILF: Mother I’d Like to Friend”

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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a novel that asks the question, who are we without our memories?  And how much of our future is defined by our past?

One of only two survivors of a plane crash, Nell Slattery wakes in the hospital with no memory of the crash – or who she is, or was. Now she must piece together both body and mind — with the help of family and friends who have their own agendas.  She filters through photos, art, music and stories, hoping something will jog her memory, and soon – in tiny bits and pieces –Nell starts remembering…It isn’t long before she learns to question the stories presented by her mother, her sister and business partner, and her husband.  In the end she will learn that forgiving betrayals small and large will be the only true path to healing herself — and to finding happiness.

The reviews keep pouring in, here is a highlight from Write Meg.

5. THESE GIRLS on Write Meg! ” What really worked in These Girls was the scope of the interwoven plots. We’re not dealing with a trio of single girls taking on Manhattan; these women are smart, challenged and struggling to maintain their professional and personal roles. Cate, Renee and Abby’s individual family problems were detailed enough to invest me in the story, but not complicated enough to get frustrating. Though there were no easy solutions, this isn’t one over-the-top drama after another. Abby’s personal issues with her former job left me feeling a little cold towards her, especially as I felt she’d brought them on herself, but Pekkanen did a great job of creating sympathetic heroines I couldn’t actively dislike.”

Another fabulous review courtesy of Write Meg – this time for Sarah Pekkanen’s THESE GIRLS. Here is a highlight: