tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63923137946534527352024-03-19T00:00:34.015-07:00All Books ConsideredConsidering all books . . .kind of. I review mostly contemporary adult, NA and YA but if it's a great paranormal, fantasy, dystopian, etc., I will read it! Eva @ All Books Consideredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463453822150052462noreply@blogger.comBlogger936125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392313794653452735.post-44150108824326798662024-03-19T00:00:00.001-07:002024-03-19T00:00:00.142-07:00Review: Rhythm and Clues (Record Shop Mystery #3) by Olivia Blacke<center>
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<u><b>Blurb from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126918630-rhythm-and-clues">Goodreads</a></b><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124935036-enchanted-hill">:</a></b></u></span><br />
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<h4><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span></span></span><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>Yes, I know I'm not a PI. I'm not a cop. I'm not a vigilante. I'm don't even own a car. But I do have a keen sense for a good mystery, a direct line into the local gossip mill, and two equally dogged sisters. Not to mention that I make a mean cup of coffee.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></i></span></h4></div></div>Eva @ All Books Consideredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463453822150052462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392313794653452735.post-60754459476280604522024-03-19T00:00:00.000-07:002024-03-19T00:00:00.144-07:00Review: Death Unfiltered (A Ground Rules Mystery #4) by Emmeline Duncan<center>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Blurb from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181037563-death-unfiltered">Goodreads</a></b><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21437200-mr-kiss-and-tell?from_search=true">:</a></b></u></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>As the owner of Portland, Oregon’s popular Ground Rules coffee cart, hard-working young master barista Sage Caplin is excited to expand her business with a brick-and mortar store. But not everyone gives her a warm welcome . . .</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Ground Rules isn’t the only newcomer set to open in Portland’s grand new Button Building. Fortunately, most of the fellow micro-restaurant owners and patrons are great—with two exceptions. There’s Rose, a true-crime podcaster and active TikToker who’s pestering Sage for an interview about her estranged con-artist mother; and Bianca, the familiar and perpetually unpleasant owner of Breakfast Bandits. Bianca is abrasive to everyone, so Sage doesn’t feel singled out. . . . Until Bianca falls dead at the building’s grand opening—a to-go cup of Ground Rules coffee in her hand. Laced with Ketamine, also known as Special K.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>It doesn’t help that just before she collapsed, Bianca was publicly rude to Sage. Or that Bianca’s boyfriend points the police toward Sage. Or that Rose, still hung up on investigating Sage’s mom, has declared she’ll solve the murder. Now it will be up to Sage to sift through a complex blend of motives, blackmail, and old and new rivalries to get to the truth of a very bitter brew . . .</i></span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>My Review:</i></span></u></b></div></div></div>
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<center style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">This series is quickly becoming one of my favorite cozy mystery series and the latest book was good! I love Sage and her coffee world as well as the Portland setting. This is the best type of cozy mystery -- great characters, great setting and super cozy vibes. I also loved how this book ended as well and can't wait to see what happens next. You can read my review of the first book in this series <b><a href="https://booksconsidered.blogspot.com/2021/03/review-fresh-brewed-murder-ground-rules.html">HERE</a></b>.</span></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></center>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce—except in Reno, Nevada.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>At the Golden Yarrow, the most respectable of Reno’s famous “divorce ranches,” Lois finds herself living with half a dozen other would-be divorcees, all in Reno for the six weeks’ residency that is the state’s only divorce requirement. They spend their days riding horses and their nights flirting with cowboys, and it’s as wild and fun as Lake Forest, Illinois, is prim and stifling. But it isn’t until Greer Lang arrives that Lois’s world truly cracks open. Gorgeous, beguiling, and completely indifferent to societal convention, Greer is unlike anyone Lois has ever met—and she sees something in Lois that no one else ever has. Under her influence, Lois begins to push against the limits that have always restrained her. But how far will she go to forge her independence, on her own terms?</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Set in the glamorous, dizzying world of 1950s Reno, where housewives and movie stars rubbed shoulders at gin-soaked casinos, The Divorcees is a riveting page-turner and a dazzling exploration of female friendship, desire, and freedom.</i></span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>My Review:</i></span></u></b></div></div></div>
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<center style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">This was so good. I loved the story, the writing, the setting and the narrator. It felt truly unique but also intimate and transported me in the same way the best historical fiction does. I highly recommend this one if you are looking for something unique and possibly a world you never thought about before. If you like historical fiction, definitely add to your TBR!!</span></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></center>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was one of the oddest books I've ever read. It was way too convoluted in trying to explain a ridiculous conspiracy of writers becoming assassins for a literary agency from the eyes of a budding novelist who gets in too deep. I kept wanting more because the writing was interesting and I quite liked the characters but it just dragged on and on. There is a lot of violence in this book and the ending was not satisfying at all. I hope you have better luck!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Blurb from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176530578-expiration-dates">Goodreads</a></b><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21437200-mr-kiss-and-tell?from_search=true">:</a></b></u></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes the romance that will define a generation.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she’d spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend. Daphne has been receiving the numbered papers for over twenty years, always wondering when there might be one without an expiration. Finally, the night of a blind date at her favorite Los Angeles restaurant, there’s only a name: Jake.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>But as Jake and Daphne’s story unfolds, Daphne finds herself doubting the paper’s prediction, and wrestling with what it means to be both committed and truthful. Because Daphne knows things Jake doesn’t, information that—if he found out—would break his heart.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Told with her signature warmth and insight into matters of the heart, Rebecca Serle has finally set her sights on romantic love. The result is a gripping, emotional, passionate, and (yes) heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love, and ultimately how we define each of them for ourselves. Expiration Dates is the one fans have been waiting for.</i></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and richly dramatic novel about American heroine Frances Perkins, who pulled the nation out of the Great Depression.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>When she’s not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell’s Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite Mary Harriman Rumsey, the flirtatious budding author Sinclair Lewis, and the brilliant but troubled reformer Paul Wilson, with whom she falls deeply in love.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>But when Frances meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a tea dance, sparks fly in all the wrong directions. She thinks he’s a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on a handsome face and a famous name. He thinks she’s a priggish bluestocking and insufferable do-gooder. Neither knows it yet, but over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Frances is destined to rise in a political world dominated by men, facing down the Great Depression as FDR’s most trusted lieutenant—even as she struggles to balance the demands of a public career with marriage and motherhood. And when vicious political attacks mount and personal tragedies threaten to derail her ambitions, she must decide what she’s willing to do—and what she’s willing to sacrifice—to save a nation.</i></span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>My Review:</i></span></u></b></div></div></div>
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Eva @ All Books Consideredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463453822150052462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392313794653452735.post-26731441795465352532024-03-06T00:00:00.000-08:002024-03-06T00:00:00.147-08:00Review: In the Shadow of the Greenbrier by Emily Matchar<center>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>For fans of Pam Jenoff and Diane Chamberlain, a deeply poignant multigenerational Jewish family saga set around the iconic Greenbrier hotel, inspired by the remarkable yet little-known true events that shaped America's history.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and film stars, the Greenbrier exerts an undeniable force on the Zelner family. Over ten decades, four generations of the Zelner family—Sol, Sylvia, Doree, and Jordan—must each grapple with their place in their hometown...and their family. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>In 1942, young mother Sylvia is desperate to escape her stifling marriage, especially when it means co-running Zelner’s general store with her husband. When the Greenbrier is commandeered for use as a luxury prison, Sylvia finds her loyalties strained and her heart on the line.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>Seventeen years later, Sylvia’s daughter, Doree, struggles to fit in, eagerly awaiting the day she'll leave for college and meet a nice Jewish boy. But when a handsome stranger comes to town and her brother Alan’s curiosity puts him and Sylvia at risk, Doree is torn between family and desire.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>An immersive family saga rich with historical detail, In the Shadow of The Greenbrier explores the inevitable clash between the past and the future and lifts up the stories people tell to survive.</i></span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><center><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <img height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTfmKLNoeguEguDHYHq94iHUeCn6EP8XqYbkqsKDpUADDx3f8P2W1kMD106vlqbFhdDUdmmoX2dZs7al3qsN1MBw4EREFm_G-mSa6wM2ZMX79kBJBtaRqNykmhdPYgaQo2g43vYm-VDok/s320/SST171_Trk_Blk.jpg" width="45" /><img height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTfmKLNoeguEguDHYHq94iHUeCn6EP8XqYbkqsKDpUADDx3f8P2W1kMD106vlqbFhdDUdmmoX2dZs7al3qsN1MBw4EREFm_G-mSa6wM2ZMX79kBJBtaRqNykmhdPYgaQo2g43vYm-VDok/s320/SST171_Trk_Blk.jpg" width="45" /><img height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTfmKLNoeguEguDHYHq94iHUeCn6EP8XqYbkqsKDpUADDx3f8P2W1kMD106vlqbFhdDUdmmoX2dZs7al3qsN1MBw4EREFm_G-mSa6wM2ZMX79kBJBtaRqNykmhdPYgaQo2g43vYm-VDok/s320/SST171_Trk_Blk.jpg" width="45" /></span></center><center style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">If you like historical fiction that follows a family through several generations, and is intertwined between the timelines, this book will be for you. I typically don't mind such historical fiction but I didn't love this book. It was well written and certainly an interesting topic but I had a hard time connecting to the characters. I will say the ending was very satisfying!</span></center><center style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></center>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious young man work to bring a community together in this uplifting novel for readers of The Chicken Sisters.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the “funeral ladies,” she and her cohort have worked hard to keep the mourners of Ellerie County fed—it is her firm belief that there is very little a warm casserole and a piece of cherry pie can’t fix. But, after falling for an internet scam that puts her home at risk, the proud Larson family matriarch is the one in need of help these days. Iris, Esther’s whip-smart Gen Z granddaughter, would do anything for her family and her community.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>As she watches her friends and family move out of their lakeside town onto bigger and better things, Iris wonders why she feels so left behind in the place she is desperate to make her home. But when Cooper Welsh shows up, she finally starts to feel like she’s found the missing piece of her puzzle. Cooper is dealing with becoming a legal guardian to his younger half-sister after his beloved stepmother dies. While their celebrity-chef father is focused on his booming career and top-ranked television show, Cooper is still hurting from a public tragedy he witnessed last year as a paramedic and finding it hard to cope. With Iris in the gorgeous Ellerie County, though, he hopes he might finally find the home he’s been looking for.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>It doesn’t seem like a community cookbook could possibly solve their problems, especially one where casseroles have their own section and cream of chicken soup mix is the most frequently used ingredient. But when you mix the can-do spirit of Midwestern grandmothers with the stubborn hope of a boy raised by food plus a dash of long-awaited forgiveness—things might just turn out okay.</i></span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>My Review:</i></span></u></b></div></div></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>A shocking discovery of human bones reopens an almost fifty-year-old cold case—and rips apart the lives of a group of friends.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>When human bones are found beneath an old chapel in the woods, evidence suggests the remains could be linked to the decades-old case of missing teen Annalise Jansen. Homicide detective Jane Munro—pregnant and acutely attuned to the preciousness of life—hopes the grim discovery will finally bring closure to the girl’s family.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>But for a group of Annalise’s old friends, once dubbed the Shoreview Six by the media, it threatens to expose a terrible pledge made on an autumn night forty-seven years ago. The friends are now highly respected, affluent members of their communities, and none of them ever expected the dark chapter in their past to resurface. But as Jane and forensic anthropologist Dr. Ella Quinn peel back the layers of secrets, the group begins to fracture. Will one cave? Will they turn on each other?</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>The investigation takes a sharp turn when Jane discovers a second body—that of the boy long blamed for Annalise’s disappearance. As the bones tell their story, the group learns just how far each will go to guard their own truth.</i></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote>
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<h4><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span></span></span><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>"Whoa! Whoa. Stop!" he screams, shooting his hand into the air and making a slicing motion across his neck.</blockquote><blockquote>Raphael halts the excavator arm. He hops down from the cab and runs over to where Benjamin has crouched. Benjamin carefully brushes damp soil off the long object that has been pulled up in the dirt. His heart hammers. He glances at Raphael.</blockquote><blockquote>They have hooked two big, long bones.</blockquote><blockquote>Benjamin knows they are not from a large animal because the thing hanging off the end of them is a boot.</blockquote><blockquote>A woman's boot with a platform heel.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></i></span></h4></div></div>Eva @ All Books Consideredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463453822150052462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392313794653452735.post-10888697854032842152024-02-27T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-27T00:00:00.140-08:00Review: Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering, Narrated by Helen Laser and Karissa Vacker<center>
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<center style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I did not know this was a companion/continuation of this author's last book, <b><i>There, There</i></b>, when started it but I was happy that it was. This is heavy but in the best way just as is this author's last book. The way the author traced the history and generations of a family and then brought it into the present was masterful. Such a beautiful, important story. Read this book!!</span></center>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Blurb from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165940203-under-the-storm">Goodreads</a></b><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21437200-mr-kiss-and-tell?from_search=true">:</a></b></u></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">I liked this but not as much as I expected considering I usually like bts hollywood romances. It also felt too similar to recent books I've read but not as good.... While I loved this author's debut, her last book wasn't my favorite. I would rank this better than her last but not as great I was expecting. Still definitely some spicy scenes and a very satisfying ending.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36259623-the-last-equation-of-isaac-severy"><br /></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199246627-right-on-cue">Right On Cue</a></u></i></b> </span>comes out next week on <b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><span><u>February 27, 2024</u></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and you can purchase </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C4J7Z88H/ref=x_gr_bb_kindle?caller=Goodreads&tag=x_gr_bb_kindle-20">HERE</a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></div>
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<u><b>Blurb from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120992901-the-hours-of-you">Goodreads</a></b><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58545677-always-in-december">:</a></b></u></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>Can twenty-four hours on an island paradise lead them to an unexpected reunion?</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>When Maggie accepts one last commission before retiring from journalism, she’s given twenty-four hours on a private island to interview former Hollywood heart-throb Ed Cavanagh. There are just two firstly, Ed doesn’t want anything to do with Maggie’s exclusive, and secondly, he’s the only man who ever broke her heart…</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>It’s a scenario she never expected—to be in paradise with a man she first met as a teenager but has been trying to forget for the past fifteen years. As each precious hour brings back memories of their tangled love story, Maggie is forced to confront the painful twists of fate that kept them apart. Was a different future for them ever possible? Is it still possible now?</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>They’ve both been burned by love in the past, but as the clock ticks down on their time on the island; will this fleeting reunion extinguish the spark between them for good? Or is it one last chance for Maggie and Ed to rekindle that flame to live the love story they always thought possible?</i></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My Review:</span></u></b></div></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm almost mad at myself for finishing this one because I didn't enjoy it and it was extraordinarily long. I found it similar to some other books I've read recently but just blah. I didn't connect to the story or the characters and felt like there was a lot missing. I hope you have better luck!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120992901-the-hours-of-you">The Hours of You</a></u></i></b></span> came out earlier this month </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: magenta;">February 1, 2024</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, and you can purchase </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BLF56F1Y/ref=x_gr_bb_kindle?caller=Goodreads&tag=x_gr_bb_kindle-20">HERE</a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b><i><blockquote class="tr_bq">When they were in love, it seemed the sun shone on them every day. When they were in love, when day became night, dark skies blanketed them in a velvet warmth and drew them closer together. Every hour they knew was succulent and miraculous.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Every moment they shared was a kind of paradise.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Sometimes she caught him looking at her, entwined in sloping grass on a seasidey summer's day, or in the pearly milk of a winter's morning as they lay plaited and half-awake in bed. She drank in the trace of his lopsided smile and his green eyes steady and true and full of love for her - for her! - and almost believed it could be forever, this love. That they would always be this way, lying in each other's arms and summoning their combined future to be both certain and endless.</blockquote></i></b></blockquote></blockquote></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she’s the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they’re long-stemmed roses, she’s a dandelion: an adorable bloom that’s actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that somewhere, a different, more exciting life awaits her.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>When regal nonagenarian, Ms. Della, invites her to rent the bottom floor of her Harlem brownstone, Ricki jumps at the chance for a fresh beginning. She leaves behind her family, wealth, and chaotic romantic decisions to realize her dream of opening a flower shop. And just beneath the surface of her new neighborhood, the music, stories and dazzling drama of the Harlem Renaissance still simmers.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>One evening in February as the heady, curiously off-season scent of night-blooming jasmine fills the air, Ricki encounters a handsome, deeply mysterious stranger who knocks her world off balance in the most unexpected way.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Set against the backdrop of modern Harlem and Renaissance glamour, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is a swoon-worthy love story of two passionate artists drawn to the magic, romance, and opportunity of New York, and whose lives are uniquely and irreversibly linked.</i></span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>My Review:</i></span></u></b></div></div></div>
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<center style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">This book is so unique in that it tells an alternate history of the United States over the course of a police procedural to solve a murder. It was fascinating and compelling. I kept imagining this city in 1922 in the United States created in this book. The picture was rich and the characters alive as told by this author. I will read more form him.</span></center>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The official name of that train may be the Trans-Continent, but everyone in the city calls it . . . </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">?"</span></i></b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The Usunhiyi," said Barrow. It was an Anopa name you couldn't fail to know: the train went by overhead twice a day, westbound and eastbound, as inevitable as the transit of the sun.</span></i></b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Which, as you probably don't know, means 'the Evening Land?'</span></i></b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">An ill-starred name. It goes west, you see, and west is the direction of sunset and endings. West is where the dead go. </span></i></b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote>
Eva @ All Books Consideredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463453822150052462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392313794653452735.post-32991756288707276712024-01-24T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-24T00:00:00.478-08:00Review: Come and Get It by Kiley Reid<center>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Blurb from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127463471-come-and-get-it">Goodreads</a></b><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21437200-mr-kiss-and-tell?from_search=true">:</a></b></u></span><br />
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<center style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">This was so good. I was really impressed by this author's debut (note: you can read my review of <b><i>Such a Fun Age</i></b>, Kiley Reid's debut, <a href="https://booksconsidered.blogspot.com/2019/12/review-such-fun-age-by-kiley-reid.html" style="font-weight: bold;">HERE</a>) but I loved this book even more. I was immediately transported to the University of Arkansas and what a wild trip it was! I love how this author weaves social commentary within her stories and this book was certainly no exception. At times, you aren't sure who, if anyone, to root for, but you don't want it to end. I know I will re-read this book because it has some absolutely unexpected moments. Give it a read!</span></center>
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Eva @ All Books Consideredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463453822150052462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392313794653452735.post-73294052502993759192024-01-23T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-23T00:00:00.138-08:00Review: Clover Hendry's Day Off by Beth Morrey<center>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>‘Angelica had always known her lack of high birth, fortune or influence debarred her from being presented as an eligible young woman worthy of marriage. To cap it all, being an actress assured she was utterly beyond the pale of respectability.'</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Nightly at the Covent Garden Theatre in London, an enchanting actress is wowing the crowds with her affecting portrayal of Ophelia. Preyed on by rakes and opportunistic young bucks, feted by dukes and earls, even the Prince Regent himself, Angelica Leigh is a sensation.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>But in Regency England, beauty and talent are not enough to be considered marriage material, so when the eminently eligible Lord Charles Latimer sets his heart on Angelica, his uncle is sent to intervene.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>As a highly respected, hard-working and wealthy lawmaker, The Honourable Ivor Asprey, is himself seen as desirable husband material, but widowed with an eleven-year-old daughter Elinor, he has forsaken all thoughts of romance. Lord Latimer’s mother, the Duchess of Arlington, despairs of her son, despite being reassured by Ivor that his infatuation with the actress will pass. But there is something about Angelica Leigh that demands attention, and even the austere and upstanding Mr Asprey isn’t immune to her charms.</i></span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>My Review:</i></span></u></b></div></div></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>Lady Jennifer Arden and Ben Ellis know that a match between them is out of the question. Yet their hearts yearn for the impossible. Discover a new heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author and beloved “queen of Regency romance” Mary Balogh.Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society—even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and children, and of walking—and dancing.When Ben Ellis comes across Lady Jennifer as she struggles to walk with the aid of primitive crutches, he instantly understands her yearning. He is a fixer. It is often said of him that he never saw a practical problem he did not have to solve. He wants to help her discover independence and motion—driving a carriage, swimming, even walking a different way. But he must be careful. He is the bastard son of the late Earl of Stratton. Though he was raised with the earl’s family, he knows he does not really belong in the world of the ton.Jennifer is shocked—and intrigued—by Ben’s ideas, and both families are alarmed by the growing friendship and perhaps more that they sense developing between the two. A duke’s sister certainly cannot marry the bastard son of an earl. Except sometimes, love can find a way.</i></span></div></blockquote></blockquote>
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<h4><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span></span></span><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>Ben Ellis was on his way to Ravenswood. He sat comfortably with his arms folded across his chest, watching his daughter play with her dolls on the carriage seat across from him and pondering the issue that had been plaguing him for several months now. He had never been a ditherer. When a decision needed to be made, he considered all the options, made his choice, and acted upon it. But suddenly he had become a ditherer, and he was not at all happy about it. It felt like having a hive of bees buzzing inside his head. </blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>The basic question and its answer were not the problem. He was ready to marry again, and the sooner he did it the better it would be.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></i></span></h4></div></div>Eva @ All Books Consideredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04463453822150052462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6392313794653452735.post-3203983749763552582024-01-08T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-08T00:00:00.137-08:00Review: Say You'll Be Mine by Naina Kumar<center>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>In this utterly charming debut romance, a teacher with big dreams joins forces with a no-nonsense engineer to survive an ex's wedding and escape matchmaking pressure from their Indian families. Their plan? Faking an engagement, of course.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Meghna Raman’s parents wanted her to be an engineer, but instead she’s followed her passion, becoming a theater teacher and aspiring playwright. But when she discovers that her beloved writing partner, best friend, and secret crush, Seth, is suddenly engaged—and not to her—she realizes he’s about to become the one-that-got-away. Even worse, he’s asked her to be his best man. And worse than that, she’s agreed. Determined to try and move on and relieve a bit of the pressure she feels, Meghna agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match. Maybe she’ll even find the engineer her family wishes she became. . . .</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Grumpy, handsome engineer Karthik Murthy has seen enough of his parents’ marriage to know that it isn’t for him. He only agreed to his mother’s matchmaking attempts to make her happy, never dreaming he would meet someone as vibrant as Meghna. Though he can’t offer her a real marriage, a fake engagement could help Meghna soothe the sting of planning Seth’s wedding festivities and Karthik avoid the absurd number of set-ups his mother has planned for the next year.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>But as they find common ground, grow protective of one another’s hearts, and learn to fall for the flaws they thought they hated, an undeniable chemistry takes shape. Soon, Meghna and Karthik’s expectations and insecurities threaten to risk something that’s become a lot more real than they hoped.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Say You’ll Be Mine is a delightful trip back to the heyday of swoony romantic comedies from the nineties, but with a deep and poignant look at the effects of culture and family in our most intimate relationships.</i></span></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>My Review:</i></span></u></b></div></div></div>
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<center style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">This was so good! I had a huge smile on my face while reading this and didn't want it to end. One of the best fake engagement/relationship romances I've read in awhile! I found the characters compelling and authentic and the storyline as plausible as it could be given the trope. Definitely add to your TBR!!</span></center><center style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></center>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134119073-say-you-ll-be-mine">Say You'll Be Mine</a> </i></b>comes out next week on<span style="color: magenta;"><b> <u>January 16, 2024</u></b></span>, and you can purchase <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C2P9HPJN/ref=x_gr_bb_kindle?caller=Goodreads&tag=x_gr_bb_kindle-20">HERE</a></b>! </span></div>
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<u><b>Blurb from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156137577-the-heiress">Goodreads</a></b><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59559797-he-s-with-the-band">:</a></b></u></span><blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate—along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish—pass to her adopted son, Camden.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>But to everyone’s surprise, Cam wants little to do with the house or the money—and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead, he rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>Ten years later, Camden is a McTavish in name only, but a summons in the wake of his uncle’s death brings him and Jules back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever, its rooms just as elegant, but coming home reminds Cam why he was so quick to leave in the first place.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>Jules, however, has other ideas, and the more she learns about Cam’s estranged family—and the twisted secrets they keep—the more determined she is for her husband to claim everything Ruby once intended for him to have.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i>But Ruby’s plans were always more complicated than they appeared. As Ashby House tightens its grip on Jules and Camden, questions about the infamous heiress come to light. Was there any truth to the persistent rumors following her disappearance as a girl? What really happened to those four husbands, who all died under mysterious circumstances? And why did she adopt Cam in the first place? Soon, Jules and Cam realize that an inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will––and that the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.</i></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">I was pretty bored by this from the beginning, if I'm honest. There wasn't a big twist and it wasn't very thrilling. The narrators also were not great. This author's books are very hit and miss for me and this one was on the miss side. Hope you have better luck!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36259623-the-last-equation-of-isaac-severy"><br /></a></span></div>
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