Monthly Archive: June 2023

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Celebrations / Reviews / Reviews by Nicole / Women's Fiction

June 13, 2023

#5BlushReview ~~ The Five Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

Rating: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket: After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket. Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life—her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline—grow deeper. So when Hollis hears...

5 Star Reads (the ones that keep us up all night) / Adult Contemporary / Celebrations / Reviews / Reviews by Rhiannon

June 13, 2023

#5Blush Review!~~Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Rating: Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her...

4 / Celebrations / Reviews / Reviews by Tera / Women's Fiction

June 13, 2023

#NewReview~~The Belonger by Mary Kathleen Mehuron

Rating: The Belonger by Mary Kathleen Mehuron Caribbean-island innkeeper Holly Walker is hunkering down against a monster hurricane. Unfortunately, so is player Lord Anthony Bascombe, a man who excuses his bad behavior by saying he is descended from pirates. Then her grown son, Byron, and his father, Montez—the man she’s never stopped wanting—go missing. Will she ever see them again? What about the many others hurt and dying? And will help ever arrive? With each passing day, Holly’s tumultuous past and the epic storm send her hurtling toward a shattering climax that will change the island—and Holly’s life—forever.    ...

4 / Celebrations / Reviews / Romantic Comedy

June 6, 2023

#PerfectSummerRead!~~Ciao for Now: A Romantic Comedy by Kate Bromley

Rating: Ciao for Now by Kate Bromley When an American interning at a fashion house in Rome butts heads with her professor’s surly son, sparks fly! With her thirties rapidly approaching and a mountain of student debt looming over her, Violet Luciano’s dream of finishing design school and working in fashion has cost her everything. So when she lands an internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she brings her A game to Italy. With nothing left to lose, Violet plans to win the competition among the interns for the ultimate prize—a job at a New York label. But...

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