REVIEW: Angie and Steve have three children. Their oldest son, Liam, is addicted to drugs and is involved with a violent gang. The same gang ends up violently killing Steve while their son watches on, and Angie ends up banning Liam from coming back to the house. Angie does everything she can to scrape together […]
REVIEW: Jill Shalvis books are so consistently good. Almost Just Friends is the fourth book in the Wildstone Series, but it works perfectly as a standalone. Piper Manning lives alone in the great big house that her grandparents left her after they passed away many years ago, leaving Piper to raise her younger brother and […]
REVIEW: The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul is about Grand Duchess Maria Romanov, who was rumored to have survived and escaped her family’s execution after being imprisoned by the Bolsheviks. I am not very knowledgeable about this period of time in our world history, so I was excited to dive into this dual-timeline narrative. In […]
REVIEW: This story takes place in Mississippi in the 1950’s, and Olivia is not enchanted at all by her life. She misses how things were before she married, and she longs to see Paris. She’s so disenchanted that when she finds herself pregnant, she despairs and seeks out an abortion. Olivia does not live through […]
REVIEW: I knew I wanted to read Queen Bee when Dorothea Benton Frank’s name was attached. I cannot tell you how much I love her stories and settings. Holly is thirty years old and still living at home with her mother, called the Queen Bee by everyone around because of her personality-she’s loud, a bit rude, […]
Review: Sometimes it seems like there are a ton of World War II books out there, so I’m a bit selective when I choose which ones I want to read. The Daughter’s Tale by Armando Lucas Correa stood out to me because of the cover (so pretty!) and because it featured a family fractured by […]
REVIEW: I think I will always fall for a grumpy guy that meets his match in a happy, upbeat gal. I love love love it, and The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker was a really good example of one of these stories. Griff is a theater critic; Freddy is a London stage actor. What is […]
Review: I sat down with The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick while my husband was doing some work over the weekend and just blew through it. It was so easy to get lost in this story because it is so heartwarming and the characters are so charming. I was pulling for Martha […]
Review: California Girls by Susan Mallery does one of my absolute favorite things: tells the story of women at a crossroads, having to make huge life decisions. This is the story of three sisters that are dumped at basically the same time-like on the same day-and how they all three cope with the loss of […]
Review: Gosh, this book is remarkable. Sometimes I feel like there are so many World War II stories out there, so lately I’ve a little bit more choosy when I pick them up. But I knew this is one that I wanted to take a chance on and after only a few chapters I was […]