Expected publication February 7, 2023 Author: Annie Cathryn Narrator: Brenda Scott Wlazlo Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes A plucky protagonist who’s far from figuring it all out—but powers through with wit and determination—Fallon is a heroine millennial moms will instantly connect with. Fallon Monroe, mother of one, self-help book junkie, and budding chocolatier, has… Continue reading Audiobook Review: The Friendship Breakup (ARC)
Tag: women's fiction
Audiobook Review: Make a Wish (Spark House #3) (ARC)
Expected publication January 24, 2023 Author: Helena Hunting Narrators: Jason Clarke & Stella Bloom Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Ever have a defining life moment you wish you could do over? Harley Spark has one. The time she almost kissed the widowed father of the toddler she nannied for. It was so bad they… Continue reading Audiobook Review: Make a Wish (Spark House #3) (ARC)
Audiobook Review: The Wife Upstairs
Published January 5th 2021 Author: Rachel Hawkins Narrators: Emily Shaffer, Kirby Heyborne, & Lauren Fortgang Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice… Continue reading Audiobook Review: The Wife Upstairs
Book Review: The A to Z of Us
Published June 11th 2021 Author: Hannah Doyle Can love ever be as easy as abc? If you want to know the A-Z of love then it starts with Alice and ends with Zach. Alice is a self-confessed cynic when it comes to love. She’s never had a serious relationship herself and after supporting her best… Continue reading Book Review: The A to Z of Us
Book Review: Your Place or Mine? (ARC)
Expected publication January 17, 2023 Author: Portia MacIntosh Two reluctant housemates. One question: Is this your place or mine...? When Serena is kicked out of her flat, an offer from her friend, Taylor, to house sit for her while she and her husband go travelling could not be better timing. But unfortunately for Serena she’s… Continue reading Book Review: Your Place or Mine? (ARC)
Book Review: The Perfect Date
Published June 11th 2019 Author: Evelyn Lozada When a single mom ends up playing an unwilling fake girlfriend to a charming playboy baseball player, love suddenly turns everything upside down in this fun, heartwarming multicultural romance. Angel Gomez has never lived by the book. A Bronx-based unwed mother by the time she was 16, Angel’s… Continue reading Book Review: The Perfect Date
Audiobook Review: Just Like Magic
Published October 4th 2022 Author: Sarah Hogle Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes From the author of Twice Shy comes a sprightly Christmas novel, a rollicking romp through the absurdity of family holidays and the hope of new love. Bettie Hughes once knew the comfort of luxury, flaunting a ridiculous collection of designer shoes… Continue reading Audiobook Review: Just Like Magic
Book Review: Just the Way I Am
Published March 16th 2021 Author: Jo Watson Has Fate given her a second chance? 'Zoe' is having a very bad day. As if getting trapped in a faulty elevator wasn't bad enough, losing her memory has made it much worse. If there's one piece of luck, it's that the paramedic on the scene, Noah, is… Continue reading Book Review: Just the Way I Am
Book Review: The Lost Ticket
Published June 9th 2022 Author: Freya Sampson Strangers aboard a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the heartwarming new novel from the author of The Last Chance Library. When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the… Continue reading Book Review: The Lost Ticket
Audiobook Review: The Rom-Com Agenda (ARC)
Published January 10th 2023 Author: Jayne Denker Narrator: Erika Schindele Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Vibrantly funny, endearingly sweet, and a love letter to all things rom com, Jayne Denker's The Rom Com Agenda is a story of two people finding love right when they least expect it. You know how the story's supposed to go...but… Continue reading Audiobook Review: The Rom-Com Agenda (ARC)
~ Spell the Month in Books – JANUARY ~
The meme originated from Reviews from the Stacks. The rules for this one are simple: Each month you spell the month in books (Initial articles - The, A, and An - do not count.) There are three main ways to choose the books: you can use the books that you have already read, books that… Continue reading ~ Spell the Month in Books – JANUARY ~
Audiobook Review: A Guide to Being Just Friends (Jansen Brothers #3) (ARC)
Expected publication: January 17th 2023 Author: Sophie Sullivan Narrator: Stephanie Willing & Timothy Andres Pabon Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Hailey Sharp has a one-track mind. Get By the Cup salad shop off the ground. Do literally everything possible to make it a success. Repeat. With a head full of entrepreneurial ideas and a… Continue reading Audiobook Review: A Guide to Being Just Friends (Jansen Brothers #3) (ARC)
~ Reading Challenge: 20 Books for Christmas (2022 Edition) – Final Count ~
This challenge runs from October 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022, where you can choose 10, 15, or 20 books that you'd like to read (and hopefully review). They do not have to be Christmas-themed and it’s up to you whether you review as you go along, or do one long round-up post at the… Continue reading ~ Reading Challenge: 20 Books for Christmas (2022 Edition) – Final Count ~
~ Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge (2022 Edition) ~
Back in January, I decided to participate in two backlist reading challenges. The first is the TBR Knockout and the second is this Beat the Backlist reading challenge. This challenge has multiple options as there is: counting the backlist titles, following either a 24 or 52 prompt list, following either a 24 or 52 prompt… Continue reading ~ Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge (2022 Edition) ~
Book Review: The Lost Witch (ARC)
Expected publication: December 27th 2022 Author: Paige Crutcher In Paige Crutcher's The Lost Witch, a witch discovers that finding your way home is sometimes the most perilous journey of all. 1922. Brigid Heron is a powerful witch and healer in the seemingly lost, but charming small town of Evermore on a forgotten isle in Ireland. However, there… Continue reading Book Review: The Lost Witch (ARC)
Book Review: Talk Santa to Me
Published September 27th 2022 Author: Linda Urban A teen girl gets the perfect second try at a first kiss in this young adult romantic comedy. Francie was born in a stable. Really. Granted, it was the deluxe model with the light-up star on the roof, one of the many Christmas items for sale at her… Continue reading Book Review: Talk Santa to Me
Book Review: Christmas at Snowdrop Cottage
Published December 22nd 2017 Author: Helen J. Rolfe Full of sparkling festive magic, Little Woodville is all set for Christmas… Belle Nightingale hasn’t celebrated Christmas properly since she lost touch with her Gran and left the tiny village in the Cotswolds behind two decades ago. But back in Little Woodville to sell up and move… Continue reading Book Review: Christmas at Snowdrop Cottage
Book Review: So This is Christmas (Christmas in Eldovia #3)
Published October 4, 2022 Author: Jenny Holiday USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday concludes her beloved royal Christmas series with an unforgettable romance about a confident American woman and the strait-laced royal advisor who falls hopelessly in love with her. Matteo Benz has spent his life serving at the pleasure of the Eldovian crown. His work… Continue reading Book Review: So This is Christmas (Christmas in Eldovia #3)
Audiobook Review: Catching Christmas
Published October 9th 2018 Author: Terri Blackstock Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman Audiobook Length: 4 hours 37 minutes This Year, Christmas Comes Just in Time As a first-year law associate, Sydney Batson knows she will be updating her resume by New Year’s if she loses her current court case. So when her grandmother gets inexplicably ill while… Continue reading Audiobook Review: Catching Christmas
Book Review: Sorrowland
Published May 4th 2021 Author: Rivers Solomon Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised - flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the… Continue reading Book Review: Sorrowland
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