I have to admit that I’m reading this series in the wrong order. (Matchmaking for Beginners is on my TBR shelf still.) But after reading this book, I can’t wait to read that one. And I still really liked this one. “Whatever happens, love that.” This is the mantra bequeathed to Marnie — along with a Brooklyn brownstone and a matchmaking business — by Blix, her ex-husband’s late great-aunt. Marnie is 33, in love with … Read More “A Happy Catastrophe by Maddie Dawson” »
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
It is 1983, and Joe Arneson, is 23-years-old living and living a “normal” life until he starts having vivid dreams that seem to be in someone else’s head. It gets so bad, his family sends him away to a psychiatric hospital. After several months, Pearl, a woman who introduces herself as Joe’s long-lost grandmother, shows up to rescue him, tells him she’s dying of lung cancer, and offers him the job of cleaning out her … Read More “Dovetail by Karen McQuestion” »
I figured out the whodunit part very early on, but for once it didn’t lessen my enjoyment of the story, and I stayed hooked from start to finish. Holly was kidnapped when she was 4-years-old and was unexpectedly returned three months later, physically unharmed but for a scar on her arm. The person who kidnapped her was never caught, but now, more than two decades later, another girl is taken. Holly’s mother Cecily might have … Read More “The Day I Disappeared by Brandi Reeds” »
My first book of 2020, and if it this is what books are like this year, it’s going to be a good one. Charlotte and Philip have a (somewhat stereotypical) meet cute on an airplane while sitting in economy, and start a romantic relationship that will alter both of their lives. She moves with him to the Florida Keys, although Philip seems to be on the road more than he’s with her. She’s lonely … Read More “This is Not How it Ends by Rochelle B. Weinstein” »