Category: HJ Recommends


REVIEW: Soul Searching by Lyla Sage
26th Sep / 5 Comments

REVIEW: Soul Searching by Lyla Sage

In Soul Searching by Lyla Sage, There are a few factors that have brought photographer Collins Cartwright back to her hometown of Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming. Finding out from her twin sister Clarke that their parents have real estate developers breathing down their necks to sell their properties is a big […]

REVIEW: The Teacher’s Match by Kristi Hong
22nd Sep / 4 Comments

REVIEW: The Teacher’s Match by Kristi Hong

The Teacher’s Match by Kristi Hong: Joanna Lin is very nervous on her first day at her new job as an art teacher at an elementary school. The school is different from most as a Mandarin immersion school. This is even more unusual as the setting is Western Michigan.

REVIEW: Fake Dating by Lynn Painter
9th Sep / 3 Comments

REVIEW: Fake Dating by Lynn Painter

In Fake Dating by Lynn Painter, Dani Collins is in the middle of her senior year in high school when she finally gets the news she’s been waiting for: after her parents’ brutal divorce, she and her mom are moving to Southview, Minnesota, where her mom grew up and where […]

REVIEW: The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn by Valerie Bowman
1st Sep / 4 Comments

REVIEW: The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn by Valerie Bowman

The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn by Valerie Bowman: Ellie Lawson has been working hard for an event planning company for quite a while. All of a sudden her whole life blows up. Her boyfriend, with whom she shares an apartment, dumps her and then gets her fired after he has stolen […]

REVIEW: You, Me, and Forever by Laura Pavlov
26th Aug / 4 Comments

REVIEW: You, Me, and Forever by Laura Pavlov

  In You, Me, and Forever by Laura Pavlov, Montana Kingsley and her best friend Violet created their wedding planning business about five years ago in her tiny hometown of Blushing, Alaska. Business is booming thanks to a celebrity couple getting married at the town’s historic inn last year and […]

REVIEW: Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings
8th Aug / 4 Comments

REVIEW: Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings

In Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings, Eva Kitt pretty much gets through life with sarcasm, cynicism, killer heels, and (a false sense of) bravado. It has served her well ever since moving to NYC including hosting the admittedly ridiculous podcast Sausage Talk. Okay, so it’s not the hard-hitting journalism she […]

REVIEW: He Falls First by Jill Shalvis
6th Aug / 5 Comments

REVIEW: He Falls First by Jill Shalvis

He Falls First by Jill Shalvis: Penny Rose has moved back to her hometown of Star Falls to help her grandmother and her young brother. They are living in her grandmother’s 1928 red brick Victorian house. A lot of repairs are needed, but there are not the funds for it. […]

REVIEW: If All Else Sails by Emma St. Clair
4th Aug / 4 Comments

REVIEW: If All Else Sails by Emma St. Clair

If All Else Sails by Emma St. Clair: A chilled summer getaway with her sibling was just what Josie had been dreaming about… getting tricked into helping nurse her brother’s grumpy best friend recover from a bad injury not so much, especially seeing as Wyatt is enemy number one in […]

REVIEW: The Good Boy by Stella Hayward
31st Jul / 4 Comments

REVIEW: The Good Boy by Stella Hayward

The Good Boy by Stella Hayward: All of her life Genie has been told that her grandmother is more than just a cute little old lady but that she has actual magic. So when on the eve of her thirtieth birthday her grandmother gifts her one wish at the stroke […]

REVIEW: The Lost Book Of First Loves by RaeAnne Thayne
16th Jul / 5 Comments

REVIEW: The Lost Book Of First Loves by RaeAnne Thayne

The Lost Book Of First Loves by RaeAnne Thayne: Allison Wells got a job as an Intern with Juniper Connolly. She’s really nor completely qualified for it, but after taking a DNA test Allison believes June is her half-sister. Right after June fires Allison, she collapses. Luckily Allison has recently […]