Romance

Slingshot by Mercedes Helnwein

This is an ok Young Adult Contemporary Romance set in a mid-tier boarding school in Florida. Grace is a 15 year out outcast who believes her science teacher is her soulmate. When she finds out he’s engaged, her heart shatters. She then sees one of the popular bullies and his minions beating up a boy and she shoots a rock with her slingshot and hits the bully in the face. The boy, Wade, and Grace run off and escape. So begins the relationship between Grace and Wade. It starts as friendship and Grace begins to see the world differently and open herself up. It slowly builds to a sweet romance. But, they both have secrets they are keeping from each other and eventually Grace unintentionally crushes Wade’s heart. Can either of them survive the heartache?

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May 9, 2021 0

Churchill’s Secret Messenger: A WWII Novel of Spies & the French Resistance

This is a very good historical fiction book about one of Churchill’s female SOE agents who works to sabotage the German military in Nazi-occupied France.

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April 30, 2021 0

How to Train Your Earl (First Comes Love #3) by Amelia Grey

This was a fun and flirty Historical Fiction Romance.

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April 26, 2021 0

The Crown of Rosemund by Michele Ashman Bell

This was a pretty good YA Historical Fiction/Romance book set in 1498 in England.

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April 26, 2021 0

Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

This is a cute, cute YA contemporary romance book! It’s a quick and easy read and I had a lot of fun reading it.

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April 11, 2021 0

The Russian Cage (Gunnie Rose #3) by Charlaine Harris

This is a great finish to this book series……or is it?? I just discovered that the author is writing a fourth Gunnie Rose book (release date 2022) – no idea what the plot will be because the main storyline of this series wrapped up in this book, but there are definitely enough loose ends to continue the series another several books, which I would love.

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March 29, 2021 0

Hit Me With Your Best Scot (Wild Wicked Highlanders #3) by Suzanne Enoch

This is a fun and flirty historical romance set in Victorian London. This is the third book in the series. I haven’t read the first two, but it didn’t affect my enjoyment of this book.

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February 24, 2021 0

The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship by Beth Harbison

This is a fun piece of fluff that is a somewhat enjoyable read. It centers around three women, all facing different difficulties, who bond over their love of food. Trista left her life as a lawyer behind (we never find out why) and buys the bar/restaurant she worked at while in law school. It needs a big makeover if she’s ever going to earn a living from it. Margo is a part-time real estate agent who loves to cook and has recently been dumped by her self-absorbed husband. While it’s a blessing in disguise, she must navigate finding a career to support herself with renovating a run-down farm she inherited in the divorce. Aja wants to learn to cook better and is looking for good friends who will support her through an unplanned pregnancy.

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February 6, 2021 0

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

This is a fun, entertaining mystery/romance that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Finlay is a young mother of two getting divorced from her cheating husband. She’s a struggling mystery/romance author who has writer’s block and is in danger of having to return her meager book advance. She’s in debt up to her eyeballs, her husband is fighting her for custody and she can’t catch a break. A last minute change of plans has her meeting her book agent in a Panera restaurant sitting amongst a lunchtime throng. As she discusses the latest plot of her murder mystery, she senses the woman at the table next to her listening in and eyeing her.

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January 31, 2021 0