What I've Been Reading While Waiting

Jann Alexander
11 hours ago
2 min read

While I'm counting down the days until the Unspoken Book Club Launch on July 3, I'm playing favorites. Here are three+ ideas guaranteed to transport you to new worlds

1. Read my reviews of two new favorites

Catch The Last Train to Freedom by Deborah Swift

Across the frozen tundra roars the legendary Trans-Siberian Express, carrying twins Zofia and Jacek—two brave Polish Jews—to an out-of-reach freedom from Nazi persecution in 1940. Barely escaping the Soviet forces that storm Lithuania, they are accompanied by ill-fated lovers and a potential spy on board, all of them trailed for thousands of miles by competing Soviet and Nazi assassins in pursuit of the damning parcel the twins carry. Its evidence must be delivered to allies in Japan at all costs, and the cost Zofia endures is increasingly high. As the tension rose in Swift’s Last Train to Freedom, I was turning the pages faster than the train crossed Siberia.

Conjure Up The Seer by Raquel Y. Levitt

Levitt's engrossing story of Missouri sisters with a unique clairvoyant sense, The Seer, is spellbinding. Not only do we follow the sisters’ travails while they grapple with preventing marital abuse and righting men’s wrongs, but we uncover secrets in their family history — which quickly makes this a page-turning read. Simultaneously, we’re exposed to characters in the daring women’s movements of the later 1800s that presage suffrage. All this, woven into more than a few love stories, and written in a captivating voice, had me hooked in the first pages. The Seer is a truly original story told with daring and verve.

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Find a new read that could become your favorite

Unspoken has teamed up in June with sixty historical fictions guaranteed to transport you to new worlds. Find your next favorite among these historical fiction reads from Bookfunnel, set all around the world in many centuries. You're just one click away from all sixty books:

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3. Read my favorite chapter from Unspoken (coming July 3)

To grab Chapter 71, my favorite, Click Here. And if you're wondering why it's my favorite chapter, you can find out by registering for the Unspoken Book Club Launch on July 3, via Zoom.