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Summary: Poppy and Alex have been going on a weeklong vacation together for 10 years. They are complete opposites. He is calm; she is wild. He would rather stay home; she wants to party. She lives in NYC; he teaches in their small town. Something happened two years ago which led the friends to stop …
Continue reading "Book review: People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry"
Summary: Thomas and Viv look as if they live in the perfect house with the perfect family. (I feel like this has been a common theme the last 2 years in a lot of these psychological thrillers!!) One morning, they wake up and their house has been “egged.” Initially this is thought to be a …
Continue reading "Book review: The Perfect Family by Robyn Harding"
Summary: Sophie and her husband decide to leave the big city of Chicago to raise their little boy in a small town in Texas. The community is beautiful upper class small town. Sophie misses the hustle and bustle of her high profile job, and she’s having trouble settling in until she meets a new group …
Continue reading "Book review: The Hunting Wives by May Cobb"
Summary: Hollow’s Edge is a perfect neighborhood on a lake with a beautiful community pool where most of the residents are employed by the local college. After the deaths of Fiona and Brandon Truett, the police quickly name a suspect, Ruby Fletcher, who is then found guilty of the double murder. A year and a …
Continue reading "Book review: Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda"
Summary: Mina is flying as a flight attendant on an inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Once this twenty hour flight begins, Mina receives an anonymous letter from a passenger which forces her to make the most horrific decision: choose your daughter or hundreds of people on the flight. My Thoughts: Similar to No …
Summary: Eleven years ago, a young mother in a suburban neighborhood named Shelby goes missing. Shortly after Shelby disappears, Meredith and her daughter, Delilah, disappear. The community is shocked when Delilah turns up after escaping her kidnappers. Delilah’s brother, Leo, feels like something is off. He doesn’t remember her at all. Is he just jealous …
Continue reading "Book review: Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica"
Summary: It is 1983, and the Riva siblings are planning their annual end-of-summer party. Sex, dugs, celebrities, and loud music are what the partygoers expect for this summer bash. Nina is a beautiful former competitive surfer who became a supermodel. She holds this party at her house she shared with her pro tennis player husband …
Continue reading "Book review: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid"
Summary: It is 2023 and the group of friends returns back to Mallory’s cottage in Nantucket for Labor Day weekend. It is a bittersweet reunion without Mallory. Readers get to see what the future holds without Mallory for the characters from 28 Summers. My Thoughts: I love when Elin Hilderbrand allows us to revisit characters’ …
Summary: Jennifer Weiner is arguably considered one of the queens of chick-lit books. Big Summer delivers with another novel that delivers drama, friendships, mystery, and murder. Daphne ended a toxic friendship to Drue Cavenaugh who comes from a wealthy family in NYC where they attended school together. After an unforgivable event, Daplne cut Drue off …
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Summary: With alternating points of view between Skye and Heather, both women give accounts of their marriage to the same man. Burke Michaels seems to be a lying and cheating man married to two different women at the same time without either knowing………but what seems to be true really is not the truth. Skye is …
Continue reading "Book review: Too Good To Be True by Carola Lovering"
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