You Should Smile More by Anastasia Ryan: If farcical corporate take downs with whacky characters are your thing, then this debut novel by Ryan is definitely for you. When Venessa is fired due to her face, she returns home to her foster-kittens and absorbs the blow to her self-esteem by getting […]
The Forever Family by Shirley Jump: Book #2 in the Munroe Sisters series sees Emma up to her usual spontaneous tricks having woken up randomly married to Luke after a bit too much punch and a guarantee that she’ll get to remain at the meditation retreat with Yogi Brown. Certain there […]
In The Backup Plan by Jill Shalvis, Lauren and Alice had been best friends when they were younger, and Alice had a crush on Knox. Now all three of them are reunited when they each inherit a part of the Wild West B&B. Despite the tensions between them all, they […]
A Thousand Miles to Graceland by Kirsten Mei Chase: Desperately wanting to find a way to avoid her mother’s 70th birthday, Grace’s husband gives her little option when he delivers the king hit via marriage counselling – that he’s met someone else and he’s taking his glass-half-full attitude with him.
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher: Undoubtedly, historical romance always maintains this energy of magicalism that seems otherworldly, forgotten, emerging…a reference to a time when real things existed and perhaps real love was somehow more powerful than now. Post WWI France sees literary rebel Sylvia Beah travel to France to support […]
All That We Are by Mariah Stewart: As a door in Emma’s world simultaneously opens and closes wounds in her past, she leans on her best friends Maggie and Lydia to make sense of her past marriage and the affair she realises her husband had been having ten years after his […]
The Sandcastle Hurricane by Carolyn Brown is just another reason to love everything women’s fiction. I have loved everything that I have ever read by Carolyn Brown and was super excited to sit down to read this one. This is the story of Tabby, Ellie Mae and the amazing friends that […]
In Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan, Being a beekeeper like her father before her has kept Olivia McAfee going financially and emotionally since she divorced her abusive husband about a dozen years ago. She might not have envisioned bringing her beloved son Asher up in her […]
In The Winners by Fredrik Backman, It seems like the people of Beartown, Sweden, have finally just started moving on after a series of events two years ago led to violence, death, and many changes. One of which was a tentative truce with neighboring town Hed, their longtime rivals on […]
Take It From Me by Jamie Beck: Judgement is the harsh overlord that seems to disrupt normal life across all facets in this ditty, or at the very least, the overarching theme suggests as much. Moving to suburbia as a way of researching and hopefully saving her writing career, Harper is […]