Contemporary Fiction

Saints for all Occasions
Saints for all Occasions

Review:The writing style is simple. A lot of telling and not much showing, in short sentences with simple words. Details of the times and places created a believable Irish Catholic world. I appreciated those details, but felt I was learning about this family more than I was caring about them. Read more

Christmas at the Vicarage
Christmas at the Vicarage

Review:Christmas at the Vicarage spans three decades of memories for Rosamunde on her return to the small coastal town after travelling around the world for fifteen years. During the build up to Christmas Rosamunde's preparations are intertwined with her memories of the past.

Starting in 2014 and going back and forth in time from 1978 as Rosamunde remembers living in the Vicarage with her sister and father after her mother died. She thinks of her first love, of how her life may have been, if cir... Read more

Wild Mountain Thyme: A Novel
Wild Mountain Thyme: A Novel

Review:This is a story of wonderful loving characters and how dedication to family values span a lifetime,
Only a very self-centeredness man with no morals and only thinking of himself and wanting revenge could not destroy a young woman who endured his abandoning her and his son TO BETTER LIFE keep the reader IN SUSPENSE UNTIL THE END OF THE STORY. Read more

Talk Before Sleep
Talk Before Sleep

Review:This novel explores the emotional involvement and profound depth of loyalty and devotion in close female relationships.

Ann and Ruth couldn’t be more different, yet they were drawn to each other at their first meeting years ago and a bond of friendship formed. They confide their deepest secrets and share intense emotions without fear of judgement or reprisal. It is a steadfast and invaluable friendship.

Recently, Ann has begun to spend most nights at Ruth’s apartment. She feels a n... Read more

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - A Novel (FSG Classics)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - A Novel (FSG Classics)

Review:Totalitarianism. It’s not a concept that we are very familiar with; those of us who have been born free. The sludge of fear, every decision weighed not against what is good and just and right, but instead against what the ‘powers’ will think; the battle to deny self but not lose your spirit in the process – tiny acts of rebellion unidentifiable to the minders but nevertheless something that is your own, a fake accent or a carefully planned ‘accident’; not sabotage but just orchestrated carelessn... Read more

Crank (The Gibson Boys Book 1)
Crank (The Gibson Boys Book 1)

Review:love love love this book! Hat off to the author, who is one of my favorites, for such a good story about the last Landry sibling and turning it into a new series. Sierra and Walker are so good together, even though he fights his attraction to her and it isn't until later that the story unfolds and answer is given. Love Walker's brothers, cousin Peck and his grandma Nana. All of them are part of what makes this such a good book. The dialogue, the small town, loyalty to each other all add as ... Read more

On a Tuesday
On a Tuesday

Review:Really loved both Charlotte and Grayson. Charlotte is the girl who flies under the radar because she doesn't care to draw attention, but she's still confident and self-assured, not to mention intelligent and perceptive. Grayson has had his fun throughout college with a future NFL career and being paired up with Charlotte for his tutor is like a good omen for him, although he has one heck of a time trying to convince her to see him as more than a person she meets for tutoring once a week every Tu... Read more

All We Knew (The Cabots Book 2)
All We Knew (The Cabots Book 2)

Review:This story deals with the struggles couples go through with infertility and hormone therapy.I felt bad for Hunter & Sara. Hunter is trying his best to be supportive of Sara, while fighting his father and step mother not to sell his family business. Sara feels unfulfilled so she throws her self into helping Hunter's sister with her foundation to help abused women.
The journey is an emotional and rocky one for Hunter & Sara with lots of ups and downs, but it all works out as it was mean... Read more

Heaven Adjacent
Heaven Adjacent

Review:While Pay It Forward is one of my favorite movies, reading Allie And Bea shattered my mind, so it was no wonder I nearly jumped from joy when this book landed in my hands. And once again, I am sitting here, humbled and in awe by a brilliant story, the clever plotting, and the characters whom will stay with me, destinies and lives that touched my heart, life-lessons that had a profound impact on me. Such an inspiring, uplifting, real, and raw story about life, priorities, relationships, family, a... Read more

Two Weeks Notice
Two Weeks Notice

Review:Definitely fun to read. I really felt for the main character, Tara, before she landed her first job (very relatable). When she tries to quit, I laughed. Is that bad? As the relationship progresses...well...I’ll let you read and find out. *wink* Funny, sexy, even heartbreaking. I’d recommend this. Read more

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