Love for Beginners by Jill Shalvis: I’ve been enjoying the Wildstone series, but I’m on the fence about this latest addition. Love for Beginners finds Emma, who awoke from a coma only to find her fiancé and best friend had fallen in love, learning to walk again. She quickly finds herself […]
In The Summer of No Attachments (The Summer Friends #2) by Lori Foster, Veterinarian Ivey Anders has made a pact with herself to take some time this summer to actually have fun. And maybe even a fling. Having recently ended a going-nowhere relationship, she’s ready for some sunshine and (fleeting) […]
In Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, By 1983, the Riva family is the stuff of legends–especially in Malibu. Their father Mick, a world-famous singer, and their mother June had a whirlwind romance in the 1950s which led to them having four beloved children: Nina, Jay, Hud, and Kit. Through […]
In That Summer by Jennifer Weiner, From the outside looking in, Daisy Shoemaker seems to have a charmed life. She and her lawyer husband have a grand home in Philadelphia, their teenage daughter Beatrice goes to private school, and Daisy even has a modest side-business giving cooking lessons. But she’s […]
In a very ‘here and now’ context, The Summer of Lost and Found by Mary Alice Monroe travels through the early period of the global pandemic and manages to avoid the big P in politics as countries globally figured out their best game plan. For the US, and certainly the […]
In The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary, When Addie decided to spend the summer as a caretaker at a gorgeous villa in Provence four years ago, she had no idea that she was about to fall helplessly in love with a sensitive man who writes poetry. Or that their tumultuous […]
Happy Endings by Thien-Kim Lam: Getting dumped sucks big time, especially when it happens via post-it note, but if anything it only motivated Trixie Nguyen even more to prove that her sex toy business is going to be a rip roaring success! This is exactly how Trixie finds herself moving to Washington, […]
The Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland: Perhaps in-part inspired by a New York Times article about the changing face of the Catskills in New York, this tri-generational family drama addresses the complexity of family and friendship whilst finding ways to keep heritage alive. As a way to […]
In The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley, For Piper Parrish, Frick Island in the Chesapeake Bay is a wonderful place to live. She married her high school sweetheart Tom who has his own crab trawler and they rent the cutest little carriage house. But everything changes when […]
I Thought You Said This Would Work by Ann Wertz Gavin: When Katie’s ovarian cancer looks like it has returned, her best friends Hollie and Sam are pushed together on a lengthy road trip to recover Katie’s dog Peanut from her awful ex. Unfortunately for both Hollie and Sam, their friendship […]