Nom de Plume

Mira Serafino seemingly lives a perfect life on the Oregon coast–until that is, she discovers another woman’s phone number on her husband’s cell phone bill, at which she has a meltdown and then packs up and heads to Seattle, where she takes a job as a barista in Fremont. I have to be honest: The only reason I read this was because it was set in two places that I’m familiar with. It was fine; it was frothy chick lit, but it wasn’t anything that memorable.

Ahh kiddie lit. We at Nom de Plume do like well-written kiddie lit. And we certainly like Theodosia, who spends most of her time at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in turn-of-the-19th century London. Her parents are obsessed with Egyptian antiquities. Theodosia is obsessed with removing the curses no one else can see from them. When her mother returns from Egypt with a famous amulet, Theodosia is kept busy making sure no one gets hurt. Delightful.