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Categories Book Review, Ali Brady, Alison Hammer, Bradeigh Godfrey

Ali Brady | The Beach Trap

The Plot (from Goodreads): When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O’Neill meet at Camp Chickawah, they have an instant connection. But everything falls apart when…

June 14, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Alex Finlay, Reviews with Spoilers

Alex Finlay | The Night Shift

The Plot (from Goodreads): How do you survive the death of a child? It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos:…

June 12, 2022March 13, 2024
Categories Book Review, Katy Birchall

Katy Birchall | The Wedding Season

The Plot (from Goodreads): Freya Scott is getting married. Her wedding to Matthew, her long-term boyfriend, is the first of eight in her calendar this…

June 11, 2022March 14, 2024
Categories Book Review, Helena Hunting

Helena Hunting | Starry-Eyed Love

The Plot (from Goodreads): Having just broken up with her boyfriend, London Spark is not in the mood to be hit on. Especially not when…

June 10, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Riley Sager

Riley Sager | The House Across The Lake

The Plot (from Goodreads): Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet…

June 9, 2022June 19, 2024
Categories Book Review, Trish Doller

Trish Doller | The Suite Spot

The Plot (from Goodreads): Rachel Beck has hit a brick wall. She’s a single mom, still living at home and trying to keep a dying…

June 8, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Ebony LaDelle

Ebony LaDelle | Love Radio

The Plot (from Goodreads): Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers—or so it seems. After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment…

June 7, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Taylor Adams

Taylor Adams | Hairpin Bridge

The Plot (from Goodreads): Three months ago, Lena Nguyen’s estranged twin sister, Cambry, drove to a remote bridge sixty miles outside of Missoula, Montana, and…

June 5, 2022June 5, 2022
Categories Book Review, Amy Lea

Amy Lea | Set On You

The Influencers Series Set On YouExes and O’sThe Catch The Plot (from Goodreads): Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and…

June 3, 2022March 18, 2024
Categories Book Review, Nora Murphy, Reviews with Spoilers

Nora Murphy | The Favor

The Plot (from Goodreads): Staying is dangerous. Leaving could be worse. Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel lives. They don’t—ever—find themselves…

June 2, 2022June 14, 2022
Categories Book Review, Lauren Layne

Lauren Layne | Made In Manhattan

The Plot (from Goodreads): Violet Townsend has always been a people pleaser. Raised in the privileged world of Upper East Side Manhattan, she always says…

May 31, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Timothy Janovsky

Timothy Janovsky | Never Been Kissed

The Book:  Never Been Kissed by Timothy JanovskyPublished May 3rd 2022 by Sourcebooks CasablancaDate read: April 28, 2022 The Characters:  Wren and Derick Buy it…

May 27, 2022March 14, 2024
Categories Book Review, David Bell, Reviews with Spoilers

David Bell | Kill All Your Darlings

The Plot (from Goodreads): After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first…

May 7, 2022August 9, 2022
Categories Book Review, Anna Downes, Reviews with Spoilers

Anna Downes | The Shadow House

The Plot (from Goodreads): Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape…

May 6, 2022May 6, 2022
Categories Book Review, Kate Spencer

Kate Spencer | In A New York Minute

The Plot (from Goodreads): Franny Doyle is having the worst day. She’s been laid off from her (admittedly mediocre) job, the subway doors ripped her…

April 28, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, DJ Palmer, Reviews with Spoilers

DJ Palmer | My Wife Is Missing

The Plot (from Goodreads): A family vacation turns into a nightmare for Michael Hart when he discovers his wife and two children have disappeared from…

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022
Categories Book Review, Kosoko Jackson

Kosoko Jackson | I’m So (Not) Over You

The Plot (from Goodreads): It’s been months since aspiring journalist Kian Andrews has heard from his ex-boyfriend, Hudson Rivers, but an urgent text has them…

April 26, 2022March 14, 2024
Categories Book Review, Jessica Strawser, Reviews with Spoilers

Jessica Strawser | The Next Thing You Know

The Plot (from Goodreads): As an end-of-life doula, Nova Huston’s job—her calling, her purpose, her life—is to help terminally ill people make peace with their…

April 24, 2022April 24, 2022
Categories Book Review, Haley McGee

Haley McGee | The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale

The Plot (from Goodreads): Haley McGee is in debt. The solution? A yard sale of gifts from her ex-boyfriends. But when it comes to pricing,…

April 24, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Gilly MacMillan, Reviews with Spoilers

Gilly MacMillan | The Long Weekend

The Plot (from Goodreads): Three couples. Two bodies. One secret. Dark Fell Barn is a “perfectly isolated” retreat, or so says its website when Jayne…

April 18, 2022June 14, 2022
Categories Book Review, Leslie Rasmussen

Leslie Rasmussen | After Happily Ever After

The Plot (from Goodreads): Maggie Dolan finds herself at forty-five at a crossroads in her life. Once a high-level executive, she’s chosen to be a…

April 16, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Jeneva Rose, Reviews with Spoilers

Jeneva Rose | One of Us Is Dead

The Book:  One Of Us Is Dead by Jeneva Rose Published April 26th 2022 by Blackstone PublishingDate read: April 7, 2022 The Characters:  Well, see…

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022
Categories Book Review, Erik Therme, Reviews with Spoilers

Erik Therme | If She Wakes

The Plot (from Goodreads): How do you survive the death of a child? My name is Tess Parker. Two days ago, I was in a…

April 13, 2022April 13, 2022
Categories Book Review, Cassidy Lucas, Reviews with Spoilers

Cassidy Lucas | The Last Party

The Plot (from Goodreads): For Los Angeleno Dani Sanders, turning 50 seems like one more disappointment. Her career has stalled, her nineteen-year-old daughter with developmental…

April 11, 2022April 11, 2022
Categories Book Review, Emma St. Clair

Emma St. Clair | Royally Rearranged

The Plot (from Goodreads): There WILL be a royal wedding. The only question–who will be my groom? An arranged marriage isn’t the worst fate for…

April 8, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Rebecca Serle

Rebecca Serle | One Italian Summer

The Plot (from Goodreads): When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call….

April 6, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Catriona Ward, Reviews with Spoilers

Catriona Ward | Sundial

The Plot (from Goodreads): Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street….

April 5, 2022April 25, 2022
Categories Book Review, John Crossan, Reviews with Spoilers

John Crossan | A River of Lies

The Plot (from Goodreads): When his girlfriend, Jillian Russo, washes up on the shore of the Merrimack River in Essex County, Massachusetts, Carmen Vaughn immediately…

April 4, 2022April 5, 2022
Categories Book Review, Lisa Roe

Lisa Roe | Welcome to the Neighborhood

The Plot (from Goodreads): After years of struggling to make ends meet, Queens single mom Ginny falls for sweet, divorced Jeff, and relishes the idea…

March 29, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Ann Marie Walker

Ann Marie Walker | Lucky Leap Day

The Book:  Lucky Leap Day by Ann Marie WalkerPublished January 18th 2022 by Sourcebooks CasablancaDate read: January 5, 2022 The Characters:  CaraFinn Buy it on…

March 28, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Shauna Robinson

Shauna Robinson | Must Love Books

The Plot (from Goodreads): Meet Nora Hughes—the overworked, underpaid, last bookish assistant standing. At least for now. When Nora landed an editorial assistant position at…

March 28, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Thomas Olde Heuvelt | Echo

The Plot (from Goodreads): Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed…

March 25, 2022March 28, 2022
Categories Book Review, Kimmery Martin, Reviews with Spoilers

Kimmery Martin | The Queen of Hearts

The Plot (from Goodreads): Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships…

March 24, 2022March 28, 2022
Categories Book Review, Ashley Schumacher

Ashley Schumacher | Full Flight

The Plot (from Goodreads): Everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas calls fall football season, but for the forty-three members of the Fighting…

March 8, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Ellery Lloyd, Reviews with Spoilers

Ellery Lloyd | The Club

The Plot (from Goodreads): Envisioned as a luxurious home-away from-home for Very Important People, The Home Group is a collection of celebrity members clubs dotted…

March 4, 2022April 15, 2022
Categories Book Review, Josie Silver

Josie Silver | One Night On The Island

The Plot (from Goodreads): Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is the last thing that dating columnist Cleo wanted, but she is going on a self-coupling…

March 3, 2022May 1, 2024
Categories Book Review, Jenny Hale

Jenny Hale | Butterfly Sisters

The Plot (from Goodreads): About to land her biggest deal yet, Leigh Henderson is on her game. She’s prepared for this, and nothing can get…

March 2, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Lauren Kate

Lauren Kate | By Any Other Name

The Plot (from Goodreads): From # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate comes an enemies-to-lovers romance about an editor, her bestselling author, and…

February 27, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Tessa Bailey

Tessa Bailey | Hook, Line, and Sinker

The Plot (from Goodreads): King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time–in bed…

February 25, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Mandy McHugh, Reviews with Spoilers

Mandy McHugh | Chloe Cates Is Missing

The Plot (from Goodreads): The disappearance of a young internet celebrity ignites a firestorm of speculation on social media, and to find her a detective…

February 23, 2022August 27, 2024
Categories Book Review, Melissa Ferguson

Melissa Ferguson | Meet Me In The Margins

The Plot (from Goodreads): Savannah Cade is a low-level editor at Pennington Publishing, a prestigious publisher producing only the highest of highbrow titles. And while…

February 22, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Pamela Crane, Reviews with Spoilers

Pamela Crane | A Slow Ruin

The Book:  A Slow Ruin by Pamela CranePublished  November 30th 2021 by Bloodhound BooksDate read: February 2, 2022 The Characters:  FelicityVeraMarin Buy it on Bookshop.org…

February 22, 2022February 26, 2022
Categories Book Review, Josie Lloyd

Josie Lloyd | The Bright Side Running Club

The Plot (from Goodreads): When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women…

February 15, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Bonnie Kistler, Reviews with Spoilers

Bonnie Kistler | The Cage

The Plot (from Goodreads): On a cold, misty Sunday night, two women are alone in the offices of fashion conglomerate Claudine de Martineau International. One…

February 14, 2022February 24, 2022
Categories Book Review, Carey Baldwin, Reviews with Spoilers

Carey Baldwin | The Marriage Secret

The Plot (from Goodreads): He married me despite my darkest secret. But am I safe now that I know his? From the outside, my marriage…

February 14, 2022February 24, 2022
Categories Book Review, Sophie Sullivan

Sophie Sullivan | How To Love Your Neighbor

The Plot (from Goodreads): Interior Design School? Check. Cute house to fix up? Check. Sexy, grumpy neighbor who is going to get in the way…

February 12, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Lucy Gilmore

Lucy Gilmore | I Hate You More

The Plot (from Goodreads): Discover what makes Lucy Gilmore an instant fan favorite with this unforgettably funny enemies-to-lovers romcom starring: • a grumpy dog show…

February 7, 2022February 5, 2023
Categories Book Review, Laura Dave

Laura Dave | The Divorce Party

The Plot (from Goodreads): Sizzle Factor: SPF 50. A secret marriage, lies about affairs . . . even sex on the day of the divorce…

February 5, 2022February 6, 2022
Categories Book Review, Claire Douglas, Reviews with Spoilers

Claire Douglas | The Couple at No. 9

The Plot (from Goodreads): The Victims . . . When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations,…

February 4, 2022May 6, 2022
Categories Book Review, Elle Kennedy

Elle Kennedy | Good Girl Complex (Avalon Bay #1)

The Plot (from Goodreads): Mackenzie “Mac” Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It’s exhausting, really, always…

February 2, 2022February 17, 2023

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