Book Reviews
Book Review: Behind the Glass
The author Kristen Morgen was very sweet to send me this book. She is a very sweet person on social media. I will add her accounts:
I liked this book. It was beautifully written. It's way out of my comfort zone, which I need to start reading books out of my comfort zone. I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read this kind of book!!!
I gave it a 4\5
Saturday, June 29, 2019
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Book Review: The Secret Mother
OMG holy cow!!!!!!! This book was absolutely amazing!!!! Would love to see this on Lifetime for a movie!!!! Couldn’t put it down. Page turner!!!! Loved it!!! Must read!!! | |
Can't wait to read more by her!!!!
I give this book a 5\5
Friday, June 28, 2019
book partner
Partner: Only Ever Her
I got this in the mail today, can't wait to read it!!!
It was to be the perfect wedding—until the bride disappeared.
Annie Taft’s wedding is four days away, and it will be one of the grandest anyone can remember in her small South Carolina town. Preparations are in order. Friends and family are gathering in anticipation. Everything is going according to plan. Except that Annie herself has vanished. Did she have second thoughts? Or has something much worse happened to the bride-to-be?
While her loved ones frantically try to track her down, they’re forced to grapple with their own secrets—secrets with the power to reframe entire relationships, leaving each to wonder how well they really knew Annie and how well they know themselves
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Book Reviews
Library books
Book Review: The Better Sister
This was my VERY 1st Alafair Burke book and won't be my last. This book felt like I was reading\watching a very good Lifetime movie. Could not put it down!!!!
Two sisters that haven't spoken in a long time, a murdered husband\ father. DRAMA all around. The 2 sisters were so different from another, both were married to the same man. Had to put their differences aside to be there for Ethan.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Book club
Book Club book for June
This month for my local book club we are reading The
Secret Mother. As many of y'all know, I LOVEEEEE a good Lifetime movie(which
reminds me that I have to go dvr some for this weekend lol) ok back on topic,
as I was saying, this book sounds like a good Lifetime movie. The other book I
am reading, The Better Sister is like a good Lifetime movie too.
I started The Better Sister the other day and loving it!! I started The Secret Mother last night(Thursday) and loving it too!!
July is my pick and I am trying to come up with 4 and pick one!!! Stay tuned....
July is my pick and I am trying to come up with 4 and pick one!!! Stay tuned....
The Secret Mother
by Shalini Boland
Are you my mommy?
Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she is his mother. But Tessa doesn't have any children.
Not anymore.
She doesn't know who the little boy is or how he got there. After contacting the police, Tessa is suspected of kidnapping the mystery child. Her whole life is turned upside down. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own...
Tessa isn't sure what to believe or whom to trust. Because someone is lying. To find out who, she must first confront her painful past. But is the truth more dangerous than Tessa realizes?
The Secret Mother is an intense psychological thriller with a twist that will make you wonder if you can ever trust anyone again.
Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she is his mother. But Tessa doesn't have any children.
Not anymore.
She doesn't know who the little boy is or how he got there. After contacting the police, Tessa is suspected of kidnapping the mystery child. Her whole life is turned upside down. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own...
Tessa isn't sure what to believe or whom to trust. Because someone is lying. To find out who, she must first confront her painful past. But is the truth more dangerous than Tessa realizes?
The Secret Mother is an intense psychological thriller with a twist that will make you wonder if you can ever trust anyone again.
The Better Sister
by
Alafair Burke
From Alafair Burke—New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wife—comes another twisty tale of domestic noir. When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters—one the dead man’s widow, the other his ex—must set aside mistrust and old resentments . . . but can they escape their past?
Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky was always restless . . . and more than a little reckless—the opposite of her ambitious little sister. She floated from job to job and man to man, and stayed close to home in Cleveland.
For a while, it seemed like both sisters had found happiness. Chloe earned a scholarship to an Ivy League school and moved to New York City, where she landed a coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young attorney Adam Macintosh, and gave birth to a baby boy they named Ethan. The Taylor sisters became virtual strangers.
Now, more than fifteen years later, their lives are drastically different—and Chloe is married to Adam. When he’s murdered by an intruder at the couple’s East Hampton beach house, Chloe reluctantly allows her teenaged stepson’s biological mother—her estranged sister, Nicky—back into her life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect in his father’s death, the two sisters are forced to unite . . . and to confront the truth behind family secrets they have tried to bury in the past
Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky was always restless . . . and more than a little reckless—the opposite of her ambitious little sister. She floated from job to job and man to man, and stayed close to home in Cleveland.
For a while, it seemed like both sisters had found happiness. Chloe earned a scholarship to an Ivy League school and moved to New York City, where she landed a coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young attorney Adam Macintosh, and gave birth to a baby boy they named Ethan. The Taylor sisters became virtual strangers.
Now, more than fifteen years later, their lives are drastically different—and Chloe is married to Adam. When he’s murdered by an intruder at the couple’s East Hampton beach house, Chloe reluctantly allows her teenaged stepson’s biological mother—her estranged sister, Nicky—back into her life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect in his father’s death, the two sisters are forced to unite . . . and to confront the truth behind family secrets they have tried to bury in the past
Have a wonderful weekend!!! Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!!!
Friday, June 14, 2019
#IMWAYR
Library books
IT'S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING? 06/10/2019
Happy Monday!!!
I am reading The Better Sister that I got from the Library the other day and I am really loving it. I heard it's like a Lifetime movie and I LOVEEEEE Lifetime movies!!!
Keep your enemies close and your sister closer.
Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be the one in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky—always restless and more than a little reckless—was the opposite of her ambitious little sister. She floated from job to job and man to man, and stayed close to home in Cleveland.
For a while, it seemed that both sisters had found happiness. Chloe earned a scholarship to an Ivy League school and moved to New York City, where she landed a coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young attorney Adam Macintosh and gave birth to a baby boy they named Ethan. The Taylor sisters became virtual strangers.
Now, more than fifteen years later, their lives are drastically different—and Chloe is married to Adam. When he’s murdered by an intruder at the couple’s East Hampton beach house, Chloe reluctantly allows her teenage stepson’s biological mother—her estranged sister, Nicky—back into her life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect in his father’s death, the two sisters are forced to unite . . . and to confront the truth behind family secrets they have tried to bury in the past.
Monday, June 10, 2019
Pub Day
Happy Pub Day
To Catherine McKenzie. Her book came out today (June 1st)
About the
book: What happened to Amanda Holmes?
After the
sudden death of their parents, the MacAllister children return to the run-down
summer camp where they spent their childhood. The four sisters and their elder
brother haven’t all been together at Camp Macaw in over twenty years—ever since
a tragic and mysterious accident.
Over the
course of the Labour Day weekend, the siblings must determine what to do with
the property, now worth millions. But a stunning condition of their father’s
will compels them to face their past—and come to a decision that threatens to
tear them apart forever.
A sharp
and engrossing novel of suspense, I’ll Never Tell reveals what happens when the
secrets and lies that hold a family together are finally
Saturday, June 01, 2019
book partner
Partner: Behind The Glass
Rebecca Jordan’s life is simple, disciplined, and uncomplicated, at least on the surface. Then she meets a handsome stranger/secret admirer named Michael Vale one fateful late night at a bookstore café. As a focused but struggling photographer with a passion for art, her outwardly happy world is turned upside down during this life-changing encounter when she quickly realizes she has met her soul mate. The undeniable attraction between them and their intense, immediate connection seem picture perfect as they discuss the shop’s local artwork, until Rebecca abruptly ends the chance meeting with no explanation.
Betraying Brett, her loyal, loving boyfriend, is something Rebecca can never bring herself to do. Driven by a strong moral code and molded by divorced parents and a tumultuous childhood, she struggles to stay away from Michael, but fate and circumstance intervene, bringing them back together time and time again. As much as she resists, there is no denying her true feelings for him and the simple fact that Michael understands her in a way Brett never has. Michael proves to be everything she’s ever wanted, but remains just out of her reach.
Behind the Glass tells the story of Michael and Rebecca’s extraordinary love and the many unconventional stages their relationship must go through. Their morals and their faith in true love and in each other will be put to the test as they learn that meeting one’s soul mate does not come without obstacles.
Betraying Brett, her loyal, loving boyfriend, is something Rebecca can never bring herself to do. Driven by a strong moral code and molded by divorced parents and a tumultuous childhood, she struggles to stay away from Michael, but fate and circumstance intervene, bringing them back together time and time again. As much as she resists, there is no denying her true feelings for him and the simple fact that Michael understands her in a way Brett never has. Michael proves to be everything she’s ever wanted, but remains just out of her reach.
Behind the Glass tells the story of Michael and Rebecca’s extraordinary love and the many unconventional stages their relationship must go through. Their morals and their faith in true love and in each other will be put to the test as they learn that meeting one’s soul mate does not come without obstacles.
Saturday, June 01, 2019
Giveaway Winner
Giveaway book mail!!
My Goodreads book that I won a few weeks ago came in today!! I have the 1st and 2nd book. Looking forward to reading them all
From internationally bestselling author and “rising star of Southern fiction” (Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author) Kristy Woodson Harvey comes the third novel in her Peachtree Bluff series, in which a secret threatens the tight-knit bond between a trio of sisters and their mother.
With the man of her dreams back in her life and all three of her daughters happy, Ansley Murphy should be content. But she can’t help but feel like it’s all a little too good to be true.
Meanwhile, youngest daughter and actress Emerson, who is recently engaged and has just landed the role of a lifetime, seemingly has the world by the tail. Only, something she can’t quite put her finger on is worrying her—and it has nothing to do with her recent health scare.
When two new women arrive in Peachtree Bluff—one who has the potential to wreck Ansley’s happiness and one who could tear Emerson’s world apart—everything is put in perspective. And after secrets that were never meant to be told come to light, the powerful bond between the Murphy sisters and their mother comes crumbling down, testing their devotion to each other and forcing them to evaluate the meaning of family.
With Kristy Woodson Harvey’s signature charm, wit, and heart, The Southern Side of Paradise is another masterful Peachtree Bluff novel that proves she is a “Southern writer with staying power” (Booklist).
Saturday, June 01, 2019