“Live your life for you, and no one else.” Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother. Lucy and Felix’s chemistry is unreal, but the list of… Continue reading This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
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The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
This was a book about WWII internment camps but from the perspective of the Japanese internment camps. Not necessarily a fresh take, but another look at how WWII affected this group of people. In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up… Continue reading The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
Christina Lauren is back with another great romance that you will fly through! This includes my favorite romance trope of fake relationships and forced proximity. I always devour their books and this was no exception! Anna Green meets and marries Liam "West" Weston so that they can get student subsidized housing while at college. They… Continue reading The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
The Corpse in the Closet by Lucy Score
Summer is heating up for reluctant psychic Riley Thorn and her handsome private investigator boyfriend, Nick Santiago. First, her disapproving grandmother arrives determined to make Riley take her powers seriously or face the wrath of “the Guild.” Then there’s the homicide detective who needs her help figuring out who murdered the well-dressed corpse in the… Continue reading The Corpse in the Closet by Lucy Score
Run by Blake Crouch
5 D A Y S A G OA rash of bizarre murders swept the country… Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike. A mass of school shootings. Prison riots of unprecedented brutality. Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state.4 D A Y… Continue reading Run by Blake Crouch
Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey
“I can't breathe for loving you and loving you is the only way I can breathe.” After losing her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop, Natalie Vos returned home to lick her wounds. A few months later, she's sufficiently drowned her sorrows in cabernet and she's ready to get back on her feet.… Continue reading Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
This is the same author who wrote Winne the Pooh. This is Milne's whodunit. It's short and easy to read locked room mystery. I originally wanted to read this because this one of the books pointed to in Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson. But this was sent to me by a postal book club… Continue reading The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne
It Started With a Book by Camilla Isley
When she’s ghosted by yet another Tinder match, Leighton swears off dating for life. Who needs apps and blind dates when she has the perfect-in-every-way (apart from being fictional) heroes of her beloved romance novels? One night Leigh finds a second hand book on her TBR pile, which transports her to the small town of… Continue reading It Started With a Book by Camilla Isley
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutano
This is a cozy mystery that reminded me of The Thursday Murder Club. I always like a good book about a cooky older gal who goes against the norm. Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing…Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of… Continue reading Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutano
The Library Of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore
This is the book you want to hug when you're done reading it. This has a little of everything: book about books, romance, mystery, and dual time lines. This one starts out with librarian Chloe Sampson and her struggles as she is now raising her siblings. Her mom left and she was informed that there… Continue reading The Library Of Borrowed Hearts by Lucy Gilmore