Holiday book

 My holiday reads…..so far. Can’t wait to read them

Hey hey

 Hey everyone!! Still here!! Hope everyone is doing good. I am going to try to read some Christmas books this month as well as the other books I am still reading.

DNF:The House Across the Lake

Got this at the library. I heard good things about it, so I gave it a try. After 8 chapters in, I wasn't really feeling it. I was very disappointed because this was my very 1st book by Riley Sager and it sounded like a lifetime movie. Turns out it was a BAD lifetime movie that I would've changed the channel. One day, I MIGHT give him another chance and read another book of his. I give this book a 1/5

Kendra Scott

 So I was watching the news a few days ago and Kendra Scott was on talking about her new book. Of course, I had to have it. I just got it in from Amazon today! I am so excited to start reading this. I love her and her jewelry line.

Here is what the book is about

Book review

 Ok, let me 1st say that I really LOVE Jennifer Grey. I absolutely loved her in Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller's Day Off(as the snarky sister). Loved her on Dancing with the Stars and so on

Now let me get to her book.......

Reading slump

 

August BOTM

 My August BOTM box is here!!! 

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WHEN WE WERE BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL

You can have everything, and still not have enough.

Cassie Quinn may only be twenty-three, but she knows a few things. One: money can’t buy happiness, but it’s certainly better to have it. Two: family matters most. Three: her younger brother Billy is not a rapist.

When Billy, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie races home to Manhattan to join forces with her big brother Nate and their parents, Lawrence and Eleanor. The Quinns scramble to hire the best legal minds money can buy, but Billy fits the all-too-familiar sex-offender profile—white, athletic, and privileged—that makes headlines and sways juries.

Meanwhile, Cassie struggles to understand why Billy’s ex Diana would go this far, even if the breakup was painful. And she knows how the end of first love can destroy someone: Her own years-long affair with a powerful, charismatic man left her shattered, and she’s only recently regained her footing.

As reporters converge outside their Upper East Side landmark building, the Quinns gird themselves for a media-saturated trial, and Cassie vows she’ll do whatever it takes to save Billy. But what if that means exposing her own darkest secrets to the world?

THE IT GIRL

April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.

Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead.

Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder

Book Review

Hey everyone! Hope y'all are having a wonderful week so far. Hope y'all are staying cool as well. 

Here is my book review for The Younger Wife

This was my 1st book by Sally Hepworth. Won't be my last.

This is a point of view book with 3 ladies. It's about an adult family that is centered around one man. His previous wife has Alzheimer’s. His fiancé is becoming friends with his adult daughters. The daughters' lives are changing. This is a MUST read book. It's Lifetime movie material 

I gave it a 4/5

Happy pub day to Jennifer Hillier

  OUT TODAY!! Go get your copy NOW!!!

Happy pub day Katherine Center

  OUT TODAY!! Go get your copy NOW!!!

July-BOTM pick

My July BOTM pick! I am looking forward to reading this 

To SAVE on your 1st box my referral link is up at the top of the page

Book Review

 

This was a very beautiful book about a daughter who lost her best friend\mom. She takes a trip that was supposed to be for her and her mom. This is a MUST READ book. Like I said, it was so beautiful. This book is filled with love, loss, and grief. It also makes me want to go to Italy. This is the 1st book I have read by Rebecca Serle and won't be the last. 

You already know what I give this book..........5/5

 This was one of my Book of the Month picks

Book Review

 

HOLY COW!!! This was an amazing book!! I really loved it. I couldn't put it down. This was the 1st book I have read from this author. I can't wait to read more from him. I highly recommend this book!

I give it a 5/5

Book Review

 

June BOTM box

 My BOTM box came in on Tuesday! I am so excited about these books. Can’t wait to read them!

To SAVE on your 1st box my referral link is up at the top of the page

Praying for Uvalde

Absolutely heartbreaking. Absolutely sickening. My heart is aching

Praying for Uvalde, the teachers families and the parents of the students who were affected

 

Currently Reading

 

When a group of neighborhood women gathers, wine in hand, around a fire pit where their backyards meet one Saturday night, most of them are just ecstatic to have discovered that their baby monitors reach that far. It’s a rare kid-free night, and they’re giddy with it. They drink too much, and the conversation turns personal.

By Monday morning, one of them is gone.

Everyone knows something about everyone else in the quirky small Ohio town of Yellow Springs, but no one can make sense of the disappearance. Kristin was a sociable twin mom, college administrator, and doctor’s wife who didn’t seem all that bothered by her impending divorce—and the investigation turns up more questions than answers, with her husband, Paul, at the center. For her closest neighbor, Clara, the incident triggers memories she thought she’d put behind her—and when she’s unable to extract herself from the widening circle of scrutiny, her own suspicions quickly grow. But the neighborhood’s newest addition, Izzy, is determined not to jump to any conclusions—especially since she’s dealing with a crisis of her own.

As the police investigation goes from a media circus to a cold case, the neighbors are forced to reexamine what’s going on behind their own closed doors—and to ask how well anyone really knows anyone else.

Book review

 

This was the 2nd I have read by Christina Lauren and I really loved it. It was so funny. It made me laugh out loud!! I couldn't put it down! I can't wait to read more from her! I gave this a 5/5

Still here!!

 Hey everyone! have been MIA for a while. May 5-14 I was in Louisiana visiting my mom, stepdad and grandparents. I haven't been back there in a year and haven't seen my grandparents in a year as well. 

Also, I tested positive for covid last Tuesday (5\17)  I did have some of the symptoms. Aches and pains. High fever. Lost taste and smell. Tiredness. I am feeling much better. I am getting my smell and taste back slowly. I am fully vaccinated. The good news is that my mom, stepdad, grandparents, my dad, my brother and his family didn't get it. I was very happy about that. I know Beau missed being around me and I missed being around him. 

I was so sad that I had to miss my niece's pre-k graduation on Saturday. So did my dad because he was quartine with me. My mom sent me some pictures and videos, so I was happy about that!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful week and stays safe

May- BOTM Box

My BOTM box came in on Wednesday! I am so excited about these books. Can’t wait to read them!

To SAVE on your 1st box my referral link is up at the top of the page

Book Review

 

I really loved this book!  I love a good  Rom-Com book. It was so cute, funny and somewhat steamy!! I can't wait to watch the movie!! I love Josh and Lucy with their love\hate relationship with each other. I recommend it. I gave it a 5/5

Some new books I got this weekend

Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate—the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion—a building that, ironically, bears her own visage—Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family—pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death.

Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career—and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home—within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive museums. But when she—along with a charming intern/budding art curator named Joshua—is dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the museum: messages that will lead her and Joshua on a hunt that could not only solve Veronica's financial woes, but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.

As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.

Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.

With its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn

My Easter basket

 My dad got me this cute Easter basket. He even asked me what book I wanted(which was very shocking lol). He is such a sweet dad. Don't worry, I got him lots of candy

Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend with loved ones

Costco books

I love the book selection from Costco!! They always have great prices. Here are the two I got Saturday

About The Younger Wife:

THE HUSBAND

A heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But first he must divorce his current wife, even though she can no longer speak for herself.

THE DAUGHTERS

Tully and Rachel Aston look upon their father’s fiancée, Heather, as nothing but an interloper. Heather is younger than both of them. Clearly, she’s after their father’s money.

THE FORMER WIFE

With their mother in a precarious position, Tully and Rachel are determined to get to the

truth about their family’s secrets, the new wife closing in, and who their father really is.

THE YOUNGER WIFE

Heather has secrets of her own. Will getting to the truth unleash the most dangerous impulses

in all of them?

About What Happened to the Bennetts:

Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same.

Now you have to choose between law…and justice.

Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever.

Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The agents tell them that the carjackers were members of a dangerous drug-trafficking organization - and now Jason and his family are in their crosshairs.

The agents advise the Bennetts to enter the witness protection program right away, and they have no choice but to agree. But WITSEC was designed to protect criminal informants, not law-abiding families. Taken from all they know, trapped in an unfamiliar life, the Bennetts begin to fall apart at the seams. Then Jason learns a shocking truth and realizes that he has to take matters into his own hands.

Sometimes justice is a one-man show.

April BOTM

  My BOTM books came in on Saturday. Got the April one and an add on.

To save on your 1st box my referral link is up top of the page or you can click on the link

About Like A Sister: (April)

In this "tense, twisting mystery" (Megan Miranda), no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead—except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth.

“I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. I found out she’d died from the New York Daily News.”

When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. It’s a tragedy, certainly, but not a crime.

But Desiree’s half-sister Lena Scott knows that can’t be the case. A graduate student at Columbia, Lena has spent the past decade forging her own path far from the spotlight, but some facts about Desiree just couldn’t have changed since their childhood. And Desiree would never travel above 125th Street. So why is no one listening to her?

Despite the bitter truth that the two haven’t spoken in two years, torn apart by Desiree’s partying and by their father, Mel, a wealthy and influential hip-hop mogul, Lena becomes determined to find justice for her sister, even if it means untangling her family’s darkest secrets—or ending up dead herself.

About One Italian Summer:

The New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years returns with a powerful novel about the transformational love between mothers and daughters set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast.

When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: to Positano, the magical town where Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone.

But as soon as she steps foot on the Amalfi Coast, Katy begins to feel her mother’s spirit. Buoyed by the stunning waters, beautiful cliffsides, delightful residents, and, of course, delectable food, Katy feels herself coming back to life.

And then Carol appears—in the flesh, healthy, sun-tanned, and thirty years old. Katy doesn’t understand what is happening, or how—all she can focus on is that she has somehow, impossibly, gotten her mother back. Over the course of one Italian summer, Katy gets to know Carol, not as her mother, but as the young woman before her. She is not exactly who Katy imagined she might be, however, and soon Katy must reconcile the mother who knew everything with the young woman who does not yet have a clue.

Book Review

 

This was my very 1st book for Book of the Month!! These 2 authors did an amazing job writing this book!! 

Marissa and Mathew Bishop appear to be the perfect couple. 

Avery Chambers is a therapist like no other.

Y'all this book was so amazing. It kept me on the edge of my seat and I could not put it down!! It screamed LIFETIME MOVIE all over!! I highly recommend this book! It's a must read

I give this book a 5/5

My referral link is up top or you can click here to SAVE on your 1st box

My cute tumbler

Check out the new tumbler I got Sunday at the Easter craft show where I live! It was very cool. So many great vendors and so many cute items. They even had a petting zoo with my niece and nephew had a great time!! They even got to take a picture with the Easter bunny

The name of the vendor is Creative Cove and she said she even ships. Go check her out and make sure to check her out

Book review

 

It was absolutely incredible!!! Kept me on the edge of my seat and had me turning pages!! Could not stop reading it!!!

Definitely recommend it 5/5

My new reading area

  I absolutely love my new reading area. It still needs some more work done to it. I can’t wait to sit in here and read. My niece and nephew’s books are underneath the table lol

Happy BELATED pub day to Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

 Tuesday was pub day for Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen for their book, The Golden Couple!! I got this book for my February book of the month box!

Go out and get it if you haven't already 

Book Quote

 

Book of the Month-March

 Happy Friday!!! It’s here!! My March BOTM box came today

To SAVE on your 1st box use my code

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there.

The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question.

The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The concierge

Everyone’s a neighbor. Everyone’s a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling. 

Book Review

 

Ummmmm what can I say about this book? 

HOLY COW!!! OMG!!! WOW!!! WOW!!! A MUST READ FOR SURE!!

It was all around this one girl, Chloe Davis.

This was Stacy Willingham's debut book and she did an amazing job on it. I can't wait to read more from her!! 

This book had me on the edge of my seat. PAGE TURNER for sure. I could not put it down. This book kept me guessing, and it kept having me change my mind on who did it. 

Being from Baton Rouge and taking place in my hometown\homestate

I HIGHLY recommend this book!! 5/5 of course

Book Of The Month-February

 I forgot to post my 1st BOTM box for the month of February

About the book:

If Avery Chambers can’t fix you in 10 sessions, she won’t take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal--she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault--and almost absorb the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband’s death.

Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple--until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things, both because she loves her husband and for the sake of their 8-year-old son. After a friend forwards an article about Avery, Marissa takes a chance on this maverick therapist, who lost her license due to controversial methods.

When the Bishops glide through Avery’s door and Marissa reveals her infidelity, all three are set on a collision course. Because the biggest secrets in the room are still hidden, and it’s no longer simply a marriage that’s in danger.

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Book Review

 

This book started out really good, then it was eh, then it picked up again. It wasn't my favorite of her books, BUT this is my opinion. Y'all might like it. The main character got on my nerves. She was a spoiled brat, even though went through so much at the start

I sadly gave it a 3\5

Book Review

 OMG OMG OMG this was an amazing book!!! Another page-turner!!! A fast read! You would NOT want to put this book down!! It will have you keep guessing who did it!! This is a MUST read for sure!! 

 I gave it a 5/5