You Were Always Mine

My Reviews Can Also Be Found On:Twitter - Amazon- Storygraph - The Book Review Crew I loved this writing duo's first book We Are Not Like Them a couple of years ago and they have another hit on their hands with You Were Always Mine. The premise of a black woman finding an abandoned white ba......more

Thank you to the authors Christine Pride and Jo Piazza, publishers Atria Books and Simon and Schuster, and as always NetGalley, for an advance digital copy of YOU WERE ALWAYS MINE. The main female protagonist, Cinnamon, a married black woman without children, is very unhappy and totally awash. Her l......more

Cinnamon Haynes has a difficult life growing up but she keeps that to herself, painting it in an idyllic form. After a lifetime of having the rug pulled from under her, husband Jayson does it does it too with his grandiose plans with equally grand flaws. She contemplates all of this as she sits at h......more

Cinnamon has fought hard for everything in her life, a man, a job, and a nice house. Its everything she has ever dreamed of. One afternoon while Cinnamon is at the park, she finds an abandoned baby. The baby belongs to one of Cinnamon’s students; shes a college guidance counselor. The note with the......more

Such a captivating novel with a complex premise. A Black woman finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her past, her family, and a birth mother who doesn’t want to be found. I really enjoyed the book from beginning to end. The situation Cinnamon was put into was unimagi......more