Jane Green is normally a much better author than this. I’m aware that Vacation is a novella from 2005 that’s been republished (I have no idea why Zebra lists this as 325 pages long – the book I read was eighty-eight pages minus a preview chapter of another of Green’s titles), but it’s a dull,…
Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn’t protect her from life’s cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve’s young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes…
Jude Deveraux’s baffling Met Her Match features two central mysteries. The first is what happened to the heroine’s mother. The second is What Genre Is This Book, which has the cover of a contemporary romance but confused me so much that I had to perform research to make sure that was correct. In fact, I…
Don’t You Forget About Me reminded me a lot of Jojo Moyes’s work, especially her book Me Before You. Set in England, it features an underemployed heroine with a close family, an undeserving boyfriend, and who idolizes a specific piece of her wardrobe (this book’s heroine, Georgina Horspool, adores her pink coat in the way…
The Words Between Us is a story of loss and discovery. Loss of friends, loss of love, loss of family and what happens when we discover it was only ever lost because we were the ones that misplaced it. This narrative is told in a first person, dual timeline format, beginning in the present. The…
Like all fans of the Winston Brothers series by Penny Reid, I’ve been awaiting the release of Beard With Me (the origin story of the series) with equal parts excitement and trepidation. I knew this would be a sad story, and part of me really did not want to read it – a big part…
Motherhood and frustrated love collide in The Stationmaster’s Daughter, the story of two different romances – one fraught and heavily one-sided, the other conducted as a form of emotional healing. Only one truly affected me, but the decency of the writing and the pull of the bittersweet prose kept me reading. Still recovering from a…
The Empty Nesters is a very good Carolyn Brown novel. Combining her usual formula of close female friends, small town southern living, tough older women and lightly embroidering the ambrosia with faith-based inspirational talk and gentle romance, this time she throws in a road trip on top, producing an intoxicating cocktail of fun. Military vet…
Lisa Scottoline’s Save Me starts with a situation that could affect almost anyone, and that hooked me immediately. Rose McKenna volunteers as a lunch mom at the school her daughter Melly attends, and notices a girl called Amanda making fun of Melly’s large port-wine birthmark. In tears, Melly runs down a hallway to the bathroom…
Like Waterworld, only good, not campy and more difficult to love, is a decent way to describe After the Flood. Set in a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity survives in mountains and on the ocean, it draws focus on one woman, her young daughter, the man they rescue, and the adventure they embark upon in…
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