This is another good suspense/mystery book by Lucinda Barry. Three lifelong best friends — Lindsey, Kendra, and Dani — now each have a son — Jacob, Sawyer, and Caleb — who are also lifelong best friends. But at a sleepover one night, something happens that leaves Sawyer dead of a gunshot wound, Jacob in a coma, and Caleb in such extreme shock that he’s barely functioning or talking. As the parents desperately try to find … Read More “The Best of Friends by Lucinda Berry” »
Author: Erin Shanahan
Former in-house book editor turned stay-at-home mom who will hopefully return to the industry some day -- let me know if you hear of any openings -- but for now who reads as much as I can and reviews online, both here and on Instagram (@bookwormerin.) I love books. Reading them. Buying them. Recommending them. I was the kid whose mother had to limit the number of books I could check out from the library each week to the number of books I could physically carry home. Now, I have a husband who enables me, children who love books almost as much as I do, and a bit too much time on my hands, which I fill with reading.To Dare jumps between the perspectives of three women: Simone (a physically and emotionally abused woman with two children,) Veronica (a teacher, a former (?) bully, and a newlywed who desperately wants a child,) and Sarah (a lawyer and former friend of Veronica who is now happily married and has two children.) The best part of this book was in the middle when the suspense was building. I thought it was interesting to see how … Read More “To Dare by Jemma Wayne” »
This was a really good book, but make sure you pack the tissues (and you’ll need them almost immediately.) Natalie Harper inherits her late mother’s failing bookshop and the care of her grandfather, suffering from dementia. With the bookshop (and her family home) falling down around them, will she be able to convince her grandfather to sell or lose everything? Owning a bookstore, in theory, sounds wonderful — an excuse to read all the time, … Read More “The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs” »
What a heartwarming, bittersweet book, based on the true story of the author’s family. In the first chapter of the book, we learn about two sisters, Fanny, 27, and Florence, 20, daughters of Joseph and Esther. Fanny is 7-months pregnant and on bedrest after an earlier stillbirth with her previous pregnancy. Florence is training to swim across the English Channel. Unfortunately, there is a freak accident and Florence drowns, and their mother decides that no … Read More “Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland” »
When Arden Olivia Maynor was 6-years-old she sleepwalked out of her house during a violent storm, was presumably whisked underground by the flooding, and was missing for three days, finally found clinging to the underside of a grate. Now, 20 years later, she’s Olivia Meyer and just wants to be left alone. Unfortunately, one night she wakes up outside, tripping over a dead body, someone from her past… This was another fun summer thriller, perfect … Read More “The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda” »