Category: HJ Recommends


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 […]

REVIEW: Meet Me In The Orchard by Carolyn Brown
15th Jul / 5 Comments

REVIEW: Meet Me In The Orchard by Carolyn Brown

Meet Me In The Orchard by Carolyn Brown: Brodie Carter thought the biggest moment lately was meeting his father Joe Clay who didn’t know he existed. It turns out a bigger event upends his life. When a tornado hits the house where he and his brothers have lived in only […]

REVIEW: Soulgazer by Maggie Rapier
8th Jul / 3 Comments

REVIEW: Soulgazer by Maggie Rapier

In Soulgazer by Maggie Rapier, Saoirse has been warned since she was a very young girl to always do her utmost best to contain the magic she gained when she touched a soulstone. Although a curse is a more apt description. After a tragic event about seven years ago, Saoirse […]

REVIEW: Confessions of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight
1st Jul / 3 Comments

REVIEW: Confessions of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight

In Confessions of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight, A lover of words and all things literary, it was only natural that Bernadette Swift earned her English degree from Barnard College and began working her way up the rungs at Lenox & Park Publishing in NYC. Currently she is the […]

REVIEW: A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole
19th Jun / 4 Comments

REVIEW: A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole

In A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole, Emmaline Troy, half Valkyrie/half vampire, has set out on her own to investigate her origins. Her parents might have passed away years ago but certainly there has to be some information somewhere out there. Paris is where Emmaline finds herself when […]