Rosie Hopkins is in between nursing gigs when her mother calls asking for help. Age is catching up to Rosie’s great-aunt Lilian, and someone has to help Lilian move into assisted living and sell her sweet shop business. Rosie agrees to leave her temp jobs and her wishy-washy boyfriend to travel to the small Derbyshire…
J.R.R. Tolkien said, “I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.” For two long years, since the death of her husband, the heroine of our novel has wept, dreamt and lived her grief. Now she is slowly shedding that intense sorrow and is surprised by the painful, funny, somewhat…
Dr. Mack Roark said, “Our past informs our present and our future reaches back into our present to define who we are.” In terms of our heroine this is very much the case; she has dreams for her future but until she can forget and forgo what happened in her past she will never fulfill…
A delightful mix of The Ugly Duckling and Cinderella, this story is in many ways a modern day fairytale. The best part is that our heroine is not just a passive good girl waiting for her Prince to come rescue her. She sets out to find something better for herself and along the way is…
Narrated by Joyce Bean Four women. Each a food blogger. Each looking to something relating to food to bring her happiness. I’m not a cook, never have been, and more than likely never will be. So, I wasn’t sure how well these women would resonate with me. I was pleased to discover that all are…
Every so often, I stumble upon a book that can be reviewed in one word. A Week in Winter is one of those books. The word? cozy. Of course, reviewers never use just one word, and cozy doesn’t quite explain the entire plot. Basically, this is a book about the owner, staff, and guests at…
I love novels that combine a gentle magical surrealism with romance and lovable characters. And there is no doubt that Sarah Addison Allen is the star of writing a sweet, lyrical story that contains those essential elements. This time around she takes us to Lost Lake, GA – a quiet spot forgotten by time that…
We all have stories. We all have moments in our lives when we have laughed, loved and lost. The thing is, most of our stories simply aren’t interesting enough to those not immediately involved to be worthy of a book. I felt that was the case with this tale as well. Mary Sue Dunn –…
Goodbye, America! Oh, how I wish I could leave the snowy Northeast behind to wander around Paris. This may not be the best book that was ever written about the chocolate business, but it certainly seemed wonderful to me. Having finished it, I feel ready to leave my dreary American life behind and instead go…
I feel sorry for the lovely Cindy Myers story, because it’s stuck at the end of an anthology with one mediocre story and two stories I had to force myself to finish. I suspect some people will never make it all the way to the one story worth reading. If you already have Secret Santa…
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