Category: Contemporary
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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: 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…
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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. SYNOPSIS: 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…
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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: 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…
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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.”…
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Review: THE GUNNERS by Rebecca Kauffman
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “What if ghosts think they’re the real ones, and we’re the dead ones?” 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…
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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! SYNOPSIS: The New York Times bestselling author of More Than You Know, Leeway Cottage, and Death at Breakfast delivers the second installment in her clever romp of a mystery series combining social comedy and dark-hearted murder—a novel set at a…
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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. NUMBER ONE CHINESE RESTAURANT by Lillian Li: he Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it…
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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: Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is about the stories we tell and don’t tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and…
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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: 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…
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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: The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her…