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Helen Cullen’s ‘The Dazzling Truth’
This review was commissioned by Harper Collins. I love books that focus on family drama; I love them way more than I love being embroiled in it in reality, that’s for sure. We meet Maeve and Murtagh way into their relationship and go backward to the beginning; we learn about their beginnings, their peccadilloes, Maeve’s…
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Ciara Geraghty’s ‘Rules of the Road’
This review was commissioned by Harper Collins. The good; Ciara Geraghty is a beautiful writer; the story is told smoothly and in a voice that immediately makes you perk up and pay attention. The not-so-good; between a friend determined to end her life due to the onset of MS, a father riddled with dementia, and…
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Elin Hilderbrand’s ‘Troubles in Paradise’
Sigh. After being cliffhanged on the last two books in the Paradise trilogy by Elin Hilderbrand, I finally have all the answers. Was Russell Steele really a nefarious criminal mastermind? Is Ayers going to cave and continue taking subpar Mick back, regardless of the fact that he sucks? How will Irene feel if she ever…
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Susanna Strom’s ‘Pandemonium’
From the moment you step into Kenzie’s world, you know that something isn’t quite right; the eerie quiet, the feeling that something is looming on the horizon that is impure and about to go boom right in the middle of the page is present from the first paragraph throughout this tale of a virulent strain…
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Gretchen Anthony’s ‘The Kids Are Gonna Ask’
This review was commissioned by Harper Collins. The premise of this book, teenage siblings who do a podcast with their grandmother, Maggie, didn’t seem like the kind of book that would take me on a twisty ride with lots of questions, a healthy dose of suspense, and a few surprising reveals but damned if that…
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Kristin Rockaway’s ‘She’s Faking It’
This review was commissioned by Harper Collins. From the moment I met Bree, striving hard to maintain excellence at a job with zero growth potential or future, I identified with everything she was going through. Struggling to pay her bills, always? Check. Battling a mile wide bad luck streak that doesn’t even sound real when…
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Brianna Wolfson’s ‘That Summer in Maine’
This review was commissioned by Harper Collins. From the moment we meet Hazel and her mother, Jane, and the rest of their family, it is evident that there is a lot of tension and misunderstanding in their blended familial dynamic. We see how Jane’s remarriage to a perfectly fine man named Cam and the birth…