Tag: HJ Recommends


REVIEW: Five First Chances by Sarah Jost
14th Jun / 6 Comments

REVIEW: Five First Chances by Sarah Jost

Five First Chances by Sarah Jost: In a ground-hog day meets back to the love future fashion, we explore Lou’s life as she navigates a time loop of self-discovery, love and difficult choices that will hopefully shape her into the human she believes she can become.

REVIEW: The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman
6th Jun / 9 Comments

REVIEW: The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman

The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman: Punctuated with music as the heading of each chapter we are thrown into the lives of two gifted and talented pianists; who must compete queen’s gambit style to determine who indeed has the most talented, or indeed whose upbringing is a weightier baggage claim.

REVIEW: Ciao For Now by Kate Bromley
6th Jun / 11 Comments

REVIEW: Ciao For Now by Kate Bromley

In Ciao For Now by Kate Bromley, Violet Luciano has already given up on a career in the fashion industry once. (It’s a long story) So, now at twenty-nine years old, as she’s finally graduating design school and spending a month in Rome interning at a famous fashion house, she […]

REVIEW: Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison
2nd Jun / 8 Comments

REVIEW: Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison: Stella Bloom loves her Lovelight Farm and there is not a single thing that she would not do to make the farm a roaring success, but it would just seem that things are not going according to plan. With a damaged fence, destroyed pumpkins, a plot […]

REVIEW: The Sweetheart List by Jill Shalvis
31st May / 11 Comments

REVIEW: The Sweetheart List by Jill Shalvis

  In The Sweetheart List by Jill Shalvis, Harper Shaw goes to Lake Tahoe to fulfill her dream of opening a bakery. What better place to do so than the last place she remembers being truly happy?

REVIEW: Once More with Feeling by Elissa Sussman
30th May / 8 Comments

REVIEW: Once More with Feeling by Elissa Sussman

In Once More with Feeling by Elissa Sussman, Kathleen Rosenberg might be looked at as a washed-out has-been in her mid-thirties, but there was a time in her late teens to early twenties that she was a worldwide pop star–aka, Katee Rose. Her secret dream all the way back to […]

REVIEW: Fiji Escape With Her Boss by Justine Lewis
30th May / 7 Comments

REVIEW: Fiji Escape With Her Boss by Justine Lewis

Fiji Escape With Her Boss by Justine Lewis: Lucy is thrilled to get a job as a designer with the prestigious Oracle firm. She is not long out of university and has had a good job with a smaller place. Markus Hawke is the owner of Oracle. Lucy could tell at […]

REVIEW: Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
26th May / 9 Comments

REVIEW: Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

In Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood, Oh the things one must do when they are in the lower to lower-middle rungs of academia. Theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway is seconds away from giving up hope that she’ll get that elusive research job and instead be forevermore stuck as an adjunct professor, […]

REVIEW: Baby Surprise in Costa Rica by Sophia Pembroke
26th May / 6 Comments

REVIEW: Baby Surprise in Costa Rica by Sophia Pembroke

Baby Surprise in Costa Rica by Sophia Pembroke: Jenny once had a goal to be an actress, but when she became involved in a scandal, she had to leave that dream behind. She was lucky to get a job as a personal assistant to an important actress, Winter. Jenny was able […]

REVIEW: Pretend You’re Mine by Lucy Score
25th May / 13 Comments

REVIEW: Pretend You’re Mine by Lucy Score

In Pretend You’re Mine by Lucy Score, National Guard Captain Luke Garrison has his reasons for keeping his life under tight control. It’s really the only way the darkness in his past will remain at bay. Then just a month before his next deployment to Afghanistan, Harper Wilde coasts into […]