Synopsis: Critically acclaimed author Trish Doller’s unforgettable and romantic adult debut about setting sail, starting over, and finding yourself… Since the loss of her fiancé, Anna has been shipwrecked by grief—until a reminder goes off about a trip they were supposed to take together. Impulsively, Anna goes to sea in their sailboat, intending to complete…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/13/review-float-plan/Review: The Worst Duke in the World
Synopsis: A wayward duke must choose: will he be the bad hero in a love story gone awry, or the brave and clever hero who risks everything for true love? The acclaimed Penhallow Dynasty series continues in this fresh, fun, funny tale! Life’s no bowl of cherries for Anthony Farr, the Duke of Radcliffe. Duty…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/13/review-the-worst-duke-in-the-world/Aftershocks ~ Nadia Owusu
Rating: 4/5 My experience of the book ran parallel to the feelings Owusu was trying to convey in her memoir. The beginning was very confusing, and stylistically challenging to get into. Once I started to get used to who she was and where she came from, I started to feel Nadia’s emotions and experiences. It
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/aftershocks-nadia-owusu/Miracle Creek ~ Angie Kim
Rating: 4/5 A suspenseful courtroom drama about the explosion and murder of two people in an HBOT “submarine” in the middle of small town Virginia. This novel, although very tragic and uncomfortable, really shined. Kim wrote about grief, and the different experience of grief for each person so beautifully. I was able to easily empathize
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/miracle-creek-angie-kim/Review: The Right Kind of Fool
Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, he wishes he’d obeyed his mother. The ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town of Beverly, West Virginia, in…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/review-the-right-kind-of-fool/Review: Wolf Untamed
Synopsis: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Paige Tyler brings you the latest in her sexy, pulse-pounding SWAT series SWAT werewolf Diego Martinez has always had a protective side, so when he meets a newly turned teenage werewolf, and the kid’s intriguing mother, he readily offers to help Brandon learn what it means…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/review-wolf-untamed/Review: Wolf Rebel
Synopsis: She let him get away SWAT werewolf Rachel Bennett is hounded by nightmares after a vicious attack left her with PTSD. Not knowing who or what she can trust anymore, she’s relieved to be assigned to a high-profile protective detail. Diving into work might be the distraction she needs, until she notices the mysterious…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/review-wolf-rebel/Review: Wolf Under Fire
Synopsis: For the cases no one else can solve, they send in the Special Threat Assessment Team Supernatural creatures are no longer keeping their existence secret from humans, causing panic around the globe. To investigate, monitor, and ― when necessary ― take down dangerous supernatural offenders, an international task force was established: The Special Threat…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/review-wolf-under-fire/Everybody Else is Perfect ~ Gabrielle Korn
Rating: 4/5 I found Korn’s essays to be honest and insightful. A unique look at the magazine and fashion industry from the perspective of one of the youngest chief editor of any magazine, Korn’s story to tell is uniquely her own. The themes in her essays are current problems many young people face. As a
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/everybody-else-is-perfect-gabrielle-korn/The Sleeping Ones
A clever, relevant, short for this day and age
Read More from: http://bookangel.co.uk/review/the-sleeping-ones/A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Keeping a promise…..***** After four years of muck and mud, reading A Promised Land was like taking a hot shower. Obama is articulate, intelligent and candid in his recounting of his early years in politics and a portion of his … Continue reading →</a
Read More from: https://gutreactionreviews.com/2021/01/06/a-promised-land-by-barack-obama/You Have a Match ~ Emma Lord
Rating: 4/5 A delightful popcorn read, You Have a Match is Emma Lord’s sophomore novel, and a big hit for me. Abby is going into her senior year of high school, if she can make it through summer school that is. Her life was pretty simple until her Poppy passed last year. Since then her
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/01/05/you-have-a-match-emma-lord/Review: A Cowboy for Keeps
Synopsis: Greta Nilsson’s trip west to save her ailing little sister, Astrid, could not have gone more wrong. First, bandits hold up her stagecoach, stealing all her money. Then, upon arriving in Fairplay, Colorado, she learns the man she was betrothed to as a mail-order bride has died. Homeless, penniless, and jobless, Greta and her…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/05/review-a-cowboy-for-keeps/Review: Big Wishes for Little Feat
Synopsis: When a young horse and a little girl fascinated by the stars above are brought together by a bit of fate and one shooting star, nothing can keep them apart. Cheryl Olsten tells the fanciful and delightful tale of a young horse in Belgium and a little girl living in America who are brought…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/review-big-wishes-for-little-feat/December Showcase: Upright Women Wanted
December was packed with good books, so it was a tough choice. I picked Upright Women Wanted becAuse the imagination present in this book fueled me differently than all the others. In a world where information has to be approved to be disseminated, and any deviation from the norm will be punished, of course the
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/december-showcase/Review: A Mother’s Goodbye
Synopsis: ‘My arms ache with the need to reach and hold my precious child, and then to never let go. But I can’t. I know I can’t.’ Heather is devastated. There’s no way she can keep her baby. She can barely pay the bills as it is. But when she meets Grace, a wealthy, single…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/review-a-mothers-goodbye/Review: Our Darkest Night
Synopsis: To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II. It is the autumn of 1943,…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/review-our-darkest-night/Review: Our Last Goodbye
Synopsis: A heart-wrenching, poignant and totally unforgettable tale of a young woman who must finally face up to the secret she has hidden for a lifetime. A beautiful World War Two novel for fans of Wives of War, Lisa Wingate and Diney Costeloe, that will have you reaching for the Kleenex. 1943, England: On a…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/review-our-last-goodbye/Best Fiction of 2020
Fiction was a welcome escape during this year of crisis for many. While I experienced many of the struggles that others did, I was fortunate to experience far more positives and successes. When the pandemic first hit the United States, I had just come back from Prague and was planning to settle in for a
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/best-fiction-of-2020/Review: Tall, Duke, and Dangerous
Synopsis: Megan Frampton returns with the second book in the Hazards of Dukes series, a series that made Sarah MacLean say “Make Megan Frampton your next read!” He needs a bride… Nash, the “dangerous” Duke of Malvern, has always bristled against the rules of English society. Hot tempered and fearful of becoming like his brutish…
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