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📖⭐BOOK REVIEW⭐📖

💕Thank you @sharonvirtsbooks for the gifted book and cute socks/swag!

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📖Title: The Grays of Truth
✍️Author: Sharon Virts
📅Pub Date: October 29, 2024

🤯This book truly shocked me and blew me away.

“The truth isn’t always black or white. The truth hides in the grays.”

📖I’m going to be completely honest. When I open a book and see that it takes place in the 1800s, I’m immediately discouraged because much of the historical fiction I have read in the past has done a disservice to the genre and led me to believe two things. First, that historical fiction is boring, and second, that I won’t be able to relate to the characters in any way. Sharon Virts proved me wrong on both accounts and I’m so glad she did. This book was anything but boring!

⭐I’ll share a brief portion of the synopsis since they described this wild ride so accurately: “In Reconstruction-era Baltimore, members of the city’s elite keep turning up dead. Below the polished surface of high society, there are illicit affairs, jilted lovers, financial hardships, and countless motives for murder.”

📖This book has it ALL. I mean ALL. Murders left and right. People falling in and out of love left and right. Family drama like you’ve never seen before. Mind-blowing and shocking reveals along the way and a twist that will leave you aghast. The level of detail was insane! I truly don’t even have the words to accurately sum up the experience I had reading this.

⭐The word that keeps coming to mind when I think of this book is ENTHRALLEED. I was 100% enthralled and captivated.

📖When I got to the end and read the author’s note and saw how much of this story was TRUE TO HISTORY, I was blown away all over again. And relieved to not be living in the 1800s frankly!

⭐You won’t be disappointed if you give this one a chance!

❓What are your thoughts on historical fiction?