Cindy’s Book Reviews

The following book reviews were written by Cindy Kennedy, a Heritage Hills resident, and appeared in the Heritage Hills Newsletter from 2014 to the present. The Heritage Hills Library would like to thank Cindy for allowing us to publish these reviews on our web page. The reviews are in order of the year of their appearance and all books reviewed are in the HH library. To access a review simply click on the book title and a PDF of the review will come up.

YearBooks
2025Ghosts of Rome
The Names
So Far Gone
Hotel Ukraine
The Doorman
Twist
Three Days in June
Finding Margaret Fuller
Karla’s Choice
2024The Drowned
Tell Me Everything_Elizabeth Strout
The God of the Woods_LizMoore
The Plinko Bounce
Master Slave Husband Wife
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Frozen River 
The Wide Wide Sea 
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
The Women
James
2023Chenneville
The River We Remember
Tom Lake
Crook Manifesto
The Wager
Demon Copperhead
River of the Gods
Lessons in Chemistry
The Winter Guest
Dust Child
2022Harlem Shuffle
Fellowship Point
Covered With Night
The It Girl
Horse
The Code Breaker
French Braid
Taste
The Promise
State of Terror
The Great Mistake
Silverview
2021The Evening and the Morning
Interior Chinatown
The Red Lotus
Agent Sonya
Vanderbilt
The Searcher
Simon The Fiddler
2020The Nickel Boys
Beheld
The Vanishing Half
Becoming
The Word Is Murder
The Glass Hotel
The Mirror and the Light
The Splendid and the Vile
Olive, Again
Night Boat to Tangier
Disappearing Earth
The Grammarians
2019The Dutch House
The Overstory
Chances Are
Clock Dance
Sunburn
Washington Black
Where the Crawdads Sing
Asymmetry
There There
Pachinko
Magpie Murders
Unsheltered
2018Golden Hill
Bad Blood
Warlight
The Italian Teacher
A Death of No Importance
Exit West
The Woman in the Window
Our Souls at Night
The Maze at Windermere
Little Fires Everywhere
Grant
Beautiful Animals
2017Manhattan Beach
News of the World
Small Mercies
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Waters of Eteranl Youth
Before the Fall
Small Great Things
Nutshell
The Underground Railroad
At the Edge of the Orchard
2016Truly Madly Guilty
Five Presidents
Fates and Furies
The Wright Brothers
The Nest
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Circling the Sun
One Man Against the World
2015Blood on Snow
The Nightingale
Go Set a Watchman
A Lucky Life Interrupted
The Girl on the Train
A Spool of Blue Thread
Dead Wake
The Boston Girl
The Silkworm
All the Light We Cannot See
The Children Act
Olive Kitteridge
2014Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Stella Bain
Mission to Paris
The Light Between Oceans
Identical
The Goldfinch
Also, if you are interested in seeing a book review of any books in the Heritage Hills Library not on this list we suggest using one or both of the following book review web sites: Publishers Weekly and/or Kirkus Reviews.
In order to see the book review just google the name of the book, the authors name and then either Publishers Weekly or Kirkus Reviews.