This is the first book I have read by Pamela M. Kelley but I hope it won't be the last. I enjoyed it from the first page. The characters are lovable and people you would like to hang out with and the story line was very interesting. I had the audio book and the person selected to do the reading was PERFECT !!!
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read this book !
I started the book with no idea what I would find between the covers but found it captivating from the first page. To say I found the story of Elizabeth Arden impressive would be a total understatement, what she did was totally amazing. I wonder if as a girl growing up in the 60's, if I had been able to read the Arden story how it might have changed my life's dreams and goals.
This book is written in a way that allows you to live with Arden, not as a bystander reading about her. The author, who wove her own modern day story into Arden's was able to bring the era and the cities alive and allow you to live each second along with both Arden and herself. For me personally, since I had been to New York, Geneva and Canada where much of the book takes place, this added another level of feeling present. I would recommend this book to all females both young and young at heart.
Thank
you, NetGalley and Gatekeeper Press for allowing me to read this book.
I love a Mary Kay Andrews book. They are great beach, vacation or curling up on a rainy day reads. And this is one I did not want to lay down. Mary Kay always picks amazing settings and characters you will love and those you will love to hate along with the secondary characters who bring a lot of interest to the book. This book is a murder mystery with a little romance, a lot of love and a couple of sharp turns.
Thanks to St. Martin's Press and netgalley for a copy of this book.
“Love for Beginners" Jill Shalvis, is the perfect book for summer vacation, even if you are just staying home. It is the 7th book in her Wildstone series but these are all stand-alone books.
Even adults needs fairy tales and this book is a great one. A love story with animals what more could you need? It is also a core storyline that you don’t read in every book. The secondary characters were amazing and funny and added personality to the story. I didn’t want to put it down.
Thanks to William Morrow/Custom House and Netgalley for allowing me to read this book.
First , I love Nancy Thayer’s books and have read many. This one I enjoyed immensely.
Second, I have never and will never understand selfish, narcissist people who are never satisfied with what they have and always want more…..they must live very miserable lives…….and yes this book has one. ( I’m still trying to figure out why these adult kids think that their mother owes them any of the money from the sale of her property.) This book also has a beautiful relationship between a grandmother and granddaughter that I wish I could go back in time and have with my grandmother. This is a sweet family story, minus the selfish kids, and a man having an affair on the same island as his daughter and mother-in-law live , is that stupidity or wanting to get caught but you will not want to put this book down.
This is a must read. Thank you #Netgalley #ARC . Due to be released May 4, 2021.
I have loved reading Robyn Carr for years but this book not so much. I do not enjoy reading about people being used and taken advantage of and by page three this book was clearly about big, smart rich sister using younger, vulnerable sister. I was turned off immediately. Then the book goes in a totally different direction as though the first chapter and the rest of the book was written by different people and who ever wrote it clearly did not read that first chapter. I found the only characters I liked was the private detective, the grocer and Ross, all minor characters, the main characters were just not appealing and not well developed. I hope this isn't a series because none of these people felt like friends and I really don't want to meet up with them again.
No Way Out
by Fern Michaels
I enjoyed this book immensely and didn't want to put it down. It is a perfect book for a rainy day, the beach or vacation.
It starts very suspenseful and mysterious and will have you spooked. Then suddenly it's like everyone takes a happy pill and becomes a different person. It reads like the book was written by two different people who didn't have the same plot plan for the book. The first half is dark and full of bad things yet to come and the second half is " tip toeing through the tulips". The plot ends quickly and is rather anticlimactic.
Thanks NetGalley and Kensington Books for allowing me to read this book.
Long Island Iced Tina by Maria DiRico
For me, the best thing about this book was the cover. It is a little to “Italian Mob Family” for me and there were no characters that I felt attached to. That being said, it might be the perfect beach cozy since it’s light hearted, easy to lay down and might make you laugh. It’s not necessary to have read the first book to follow this one .
Thank you to Maria DiRico, NetGalley, and Kensington Books for the ARC of this book.
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Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder ( Hannah Swensen #27) by Joanne Fluke
