Book Review: Women's Freedom: Unfinished Love Stories, 2nd Edition by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

 

Positive Psychologist, Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein is back with another story for women that centers around love, relationships, sexual energy, and forging ahead into the future. 

Women's Freedom: Unfinished Love Stories finds three friends--Gloria, Mary Beth, and Evelyn--rooming together in New York City in the fall of 1960. As they navigate college life and explore physical relationships with the men in their lives, their emotions are a mix of anxiety, excitement, fear, and wonder. As the story flows between past and present, the reader travels alongside these three women coming of age in a world that offers so much while still limiting their options. 

I had the pleasure of editing Women's Freedom: Unfinished Love Stories. What I've always appreciated about Dr. Holstein's books is the high energy that she brings to her work, exhibited through engaging characters one enjoys getting to know. Drawing on her own experiences of coming of age in the 60s, Women's Freedom: Unfinished Love Stories explores the fun and challenging aspects of college-age women living in New York City, having the freedom to love themselves, to find love with others, to immerse themselves in a diverse, fast-paced location, and to discover that all of life has a bit of mystery to it. 

If you're looking for a fascinating, quick read, pick up Women's Freedom: Unfinished Love Stories.

• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FFNJZQ62
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 25, 2025
• Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 380 KB
• Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
• Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled 
• X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
• Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled 
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 93 pages 

I read this book thanks to my Kindle Unlimited subscription. This review contains my honest opinions, which I was not compensated for in any way. 

Coming in March! - If She Were Blind by Laney Wylde

Not everyone can get justice the traditional way—that’s where Estlyn Collins comes in. A young lawyer in Santa Monica, her “legal” service, After Twelve, works outside the courtroom to tip the scales when the justice system has failed.

For a price.

Thanks to her powerful underground network, Estlyn’s success rate is stellar, and her inbox stays filled with inquires from the desperate and vengeful. But when one of those names is a ghost from her past seeking vengeance against her, she’s shaken to her core. Off balance and scared to be alone, she makes an impulsive move for a guy. He’s a complication she doesn’t have time for, but it turns out he may also be an unlikely—if unwitting—asset.

Treading the rapidly thinning line between personal and professional, Estlyn pursues her target while outrunning the one on her own back—only to find she may be running into a lot more than she bargained for.

IF SHE WERE BLIND is the first book in the engaging New Adult series AFTER TWELVE by author Laney Wylde. Perfect for fans of the television shows REVENGE, SCANDAL, and VERONICA MARS, the AFTER TWELVE Series is a gritty social-issue drama that delivers steamy romance, intrigue, and the most bittersweet revenge plots. Estlyn’s determination to right every wrong is sure to quench your thirst for justice, yet leave you wanting more.

Series: The After Twelve Series (Book 1)
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Crimson Tree Publishing (March 19, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1634223381
ISBN-13: 978-1634223386

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Book Spotlight and Giveaway: Gem City Gypsy by Kristin Kuhns Alexandre

When you read “Gem City Gypsy” you must conceptualize a whole world.

Gypsies.

Socialites.

The Wright Brothers.

The KKK.

Industrialization leading to WWI.

So many vivid elements. The story is about a gypsy girl who must leap over bodies to survive the sinking Lusitania and escape murderous Germans who kill her mentor in Ireland. She later returns to her hometown, recreated as a wealthy woman trying to meld into the upper class. Neci Star captures our imagination and heart as she claws her way out of one class and into the abyss of another.

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Kristin Alexandre was raised in Dayton, Ohio where she worked as a feature columnist for The Dayton Journal Herald and the Kettering Oakwood Times. She has written two previous books: Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl in the Gilded Age, a graphic novel that was featured at the 2011 NY City Comic Con; and Find a Great Guy: Now and Forever.

Alexandre was a co-founder of Earth Day 1970 and worked on staff with House Beautiful Magazine and as a contributor to Town & Country Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor and The Daily News. Her celebrity luncheon series for the Chairman of Ammirati & Puris Advertising at The New York Yacht Club was acclaimed, and she has also worked as a co-host and producer of Enough Is Enough a syndicated talk show for WLIW-TV, a PBS affiliate in NYC. Alexandre has worked as a publicist for The Economic Development Association of Puerto Rico and Champion International U.S. Plywood. She is a NJ Board Member of The Humane Society of America and resides in Delray Beach, Fl. and Nantucket , Ma. with her husband DeWitt.

You can visit Kristin’s website at: http://www.gemcitygypsy.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@gemcitygypsy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GemCityGypsy

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