In Darling Rose Gold, Patty Gold is getting out of prison after serving a five-year stretch for child abuse. Given that it was her own daughter, Rose, she abused, readers may be surprised to read that it is Rose who waits for her outside the prison.
Told in alternating chapters by Rose Gold and Patty, this is a dark, nerve-jangling read that kept us on the edge of our seats till the very end.
Want to know the antidote to get you through your tumultuous week’s duties and the dreaded pandemonium of the Monday morning commute? It’s whiling away with a fresh book to devour. And fittingly, here at MV, we have just the one.
With genuine menace seeping from every twist and turn, the two central characters inhabit every page with captivating ferocity, and the denouement is worthy of Patricia Highsmith at her finest: quite superb.
My inspiration for The Recovery of Rose Gold came from my best friend. She’s an elementary school psychologist in Colorado and has experience with Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP)…
A thorough and delectable novel about class, interfamilial relationships, and the limits of forgiveness, you’ll quickly turn the pages trying to figure out just what every characters’ motives are.
The mother-daughter relationship at the center of Stephanie Wrobel’s Darling Rose Gold is the stuff of nightmares. Rose Gold Watts spent the first 18 years of her life believing she suffered from a host of medical issues.
Five years ago, 18-year-old Rose Gold Watts testified in a trial that ended with her mother being sent to prison for child abuse. In the years that followed, Rose Gold’s community poured out their support for her, watching as she bought her grandparents’ old house…
This is a super twisted delectable read which is likely be among my favorite books of the year, one of those things I recommend with the preface, “What pushes your buttons around mother-daughter relationships?” (Reader, you should ask yourself that question too.)
In a premise which screams Netflix crime drama or must-listen podcast, Rose Gold Watts believed she was sick for 18 years, before she discovered her mother was lying.
These first lines of Stephanie Wrobel’s Darling Rose Gold (Berkley) are spoken by Patty Watts, 58, who’s just gotten out of prison after serving five years. For eighteen years, her daughter, Rose Gold, had gotten sicker and sicker.
This month, next month—and probably long into the future—if you pay any attention at all to the Chicago literary landscape, you’re going to need to acquaint yourself with a handful of fresh names. No fewer than five debut novels by Chicago authors arrive on shelves this winter…
This month, next month—and probably long into the future—if you pay any attention at all to the Chicago literary landscape, you’re going to need to acquaint yourself with a handful of fresh names. No fewer than five debut novels by Chicago authors arrive on shelves this winter…
Two great debuts that you won’t want to put down + trip back to New York City’s Gilded Age with bestseller M.J. Rose.
Not too many years ago, writers and editors thought that characters should be likeable. This often translated into characters without flaws, or strengths disguised as flaws. Characters were good or they were bad, and there wasn’t much gray in between.
There are some characters you meet in novels who make an immediate and enduring impact. The characters you remember from books are the ones that draw you in and never let you out of their grip. Author Stephanie Wrobel has managed to conjure up such a character…
We live in a world that is streaming-obsessed. I know this because my credit card statement every month is nothing but Netflix, Apple TV +, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Disney + (and Seamless, and some more Seamless, and then a little Uber Eats so the Seamless people…
There’s just nothing more relaxing than cozying up with a good book. Whether you’re the kind of person who loves to hold a hard copy of their favorite reads in their hands, an e-reader type so you can get literary on the go, or you prefer listening to audiobooks…
One of the – many – perks of my job is being sent books in advance of publication. As a child whose favourite days of the year was when those brightly-coloured book orders forms dropped on to our desk, this aspect of my work is pure heaven.
Was reading more” one of your 2020 goals? Sometimes the options of where to start and what to read can be overwhelming — there is no shortage of content out there — but if horror and thrillers are your genre