Beth & Amy by Virginia Kantra: The modern retake on Little Women and the second novel in the March Sisters Series, explores the lives and struggles of younger siblings Beth and Amy, who have grown up in their older sisters’ shadows. Both girls return home for older sister Jo’s wedding; Beth […]
The Checklist by Addie Woolridge: Dylan is all about her lists and schedules, she likes her life to be orderly and methodical, so when her work sends her back home to Seattle she is less than thrilled. You see not only does her up and coming career depend on her saving a […]
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 […]