Category: Reviews

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

July 18, 2023

#NewReview!~~ The Summer Girl by Elle Kennedy #5BlushReview

Rating: The Summer Girl by Elle Kennedy Elle Kennedy’s next spicy and emotional romance in the blockbuster Avalon Bay series. College student Cassie Soul hasn’t spent an entire summer in Avalon Bay in years, not since her parents divorced and her mother spitefully whisked her away to Boston. Now that her grandmother is selling the boardwalk hotel that’s been in their family for five decades, Cassie returns to the quaint beach town to spend time with family, ring in her twenty-first birthday…and maybe find herself a summer fling. On her first night in town, she finds the perfect candidate: Tate...

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...

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

May 30, 2023

#NewDebut~~ The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

Rating: The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel. “Meg Shaffer’s beautiful novel is part Willy Wonka, part magical realism, and wholly moving.”–JODI PICOULT Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock...