Category: Contemporary

  • Book Mail: THE HUSBAND HOUR by Jamie Brenner

    Book Mail: THE HUSBAND HOUR by Jamie Brenner

    Thank you so much Little, Brown and Company for sending me this gorgeous free book! My little reading buddy, Abby, is enjoying it too! SYNOPSIS:Ā  When a young widow’s reclusive life in a charming beach town is interrupted by a surprise visitor, she is forced to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late…

  • Book Mail: OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES by Abbi Waxman

    Book Mail: OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES by Abbi Waxman

    Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for sending this free copy my way! I just finished it and I loved it! Watch this space for my review.Ā  SYNOPSIS:Ā  At any given moment in other people’s houses, you can find…repressed hopes and dreams…moments of unexpected joy…someone making love on the floor to a man who…

  • Book Mail: HOT MESS by Emily Belden

    Book Mail: HOT MESS by Emily Belden

    Hot Mess sounds like one delicious read! Thank you so much to the Harlequin Publicity Team and Harlequin Books for sending me this free copy! I cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS:Ā  Twentysomething Allie Simon is used to playing by the rules—until Chicago’s most sought-after, up-and-coming culinary genius, Benji Zane, walks into her world and…

  • Review: KEEP HER SAFE by K.A. Tucker

    Review: KEEP HER SAFE by K.A. Tucker

    Many thanks to Atria Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “When was the last time I trusted anyone the way I seem to trust Noah almost instinctively, no matter how many times he’s given me reason not to? I never have. Because I’ve never met a guy like him.”…

  • Review: THE GUNNERS by Rebecca Kauffman

    Review: THE GUNNERS by Rebecca Kauffman

    Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. ā€œWhat if ghosts think they’re the real ones, and we’re the dead ones?ā€ Book Description: Mikey Callahan, a thirty-year-old who is suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration. He struggles to establish human connections―even his emotional…

  • Book Mail: THE AFFLICTION by Beth Gutcheon

    Book Mail: THE AFFLICTION by Beth Gutcheon

    Check out the gorgeous cover on this book?!! Thank you so much William Morrow for sending this lovely surprise my way!Ā  SYNOPSIS:Ā  TheĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ More Than You Know, Leeway Cottage,Ā andĀ Death at BreakfastĀ delivers the second installment in her clever romp of a mystery series combining social comedy and dark-hearted murder—a novel set at a…

  • Epic Book Mail: NUMBER ONE CHINESE RESTAURANT by Lillian Li, THE COMEDOWN by Rebekah Frumkin, SUICIDE CLUB by Rachel Heng

    Epic Book Mail: NUMBER ONE CHINESE RESTAURANT by Lillian Li, THE COMEDOWN by Rebekah Frumkin, SUICIDE CLUB by Rachel Heng

    Thank you so much Henry Holt for sending me these gorgeous free copies! They are all so different and all sound amazing! I will leave the synopses below.Ā  NUMBER ONE CHINESE RESTAURANT by Lillian Li:Ā  he Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it…

  • Book Mail: THE LIFE TO COME by Michelle de Kretser

    Book Mail: THE LIFE TO COME by Michelle de Kretser

    This book has a cover that makes me swoon! Thank you so much to Catapult for sending this my way! It looks fantastic and I cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS:Ā  Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka,Ā The Life to ComeĀ is about the stories we tell and don’t tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and…

  • Review: PANORAMA by Steve Kistulentz

    Review: PANORAMA by Steve Kistulentz

    Thank you so much Little, Brown and Company for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:Ā  Richard MacMurray, a cable news talking head, is paid handsomely to pontificate on the issues of the moment. On New Year’s Day he is scheduled to be a guest on a prominent morning talk…

  • Book Mail: THE LAST EQUATION OF ISAAC SEVERY by Nova Jacobs

    Book Mail: THE LAST EQUATION OF ISAAC SEVERY by Nova Jacobs

    Oh my goodness this book looks so good! Thank you so much Touchstone Books for sending this my way! I cannot wait to read it!! SYNOPSIS:Ā  The Family FangĀ meetsĀ The Storied Life of A.J. FikryĀ in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her…