Book #81 |
Book: As Long as You’re Mine | Author: Nekesa Afia | |
| Source: Free First Reads download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 265 | Duration: 09/01/25 – 09/05/25 (5 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★☆ | Genres: historical fiction, romance, mystery, race | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Two generations of women unravel dangerous secret connection between them. 🖌6-word review: Well-established characters in compelling dual-timeline story. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “She was so tired of him thinking he knew better than her because he had been gifted with a penis. She was so tired of him thinking he knew better than her because he was white.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: douppioni | |||
| Description:* Professional ballerina Thea Ross’s world shatters when her screen-legend father commits suicide, leaving behind a shocking confession to a decades-old murder. Determined to uncover the truth, Thea teams up with a relentless journalist, following a trail of clues that leads her back to the glittering yet treacherous world of 1930s Hollywood. There, she discovers the story of Lorelei Davies, a struggling actress willing to endure anything for her family’s sake. As Thea peels back the layers of Lorelei’s life—her dreams, fears, and dangerous secrets—the connection between Lorelei’s past and Thea’s present challenges everything she believes about her family history. But as she untangles all the lies, she comes to know herself more truly than ever before.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I really like dual-timeline stories, especially when I like the storyline of both time periods. There is a lot of #MeToo — before #MeToo was a thing — in this story, which always infuriates me to read about. I thought of Marie Benedict’s The Personal Librarian several times while reading this book, with regards to Lorelei’s hiding her race (being light-skinned enough to “pass”) and all the fears associated with doing that — not unlike living life in the closet. There was a murder mystery at the heart of this story, and I liked how the people in the later storyline were surmising what happened, while the earlier storyline was relating what did happen. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
