Cover and blurb from Goodreads Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids, and a needy lover. And most particularly she's managing her histrionically unstable mother, who repeatedly threatens to kill herself. But this year, it's different. When her mother rings just before Christmas, she doesn't … Continue reading Book Review: The Heart is a Star by Megan Rogers
Cover image and blurb from Goodreads:How do you survive the unsurvivable?Rachel lives with her husband Tom and their two children: it’s the comfortable family life she always thought she’d have. All of that changes in an instant – when one action by Tom destroys the life they’ve built, leaving Rachel to pore over the wreckage … Continue reading Book Review: Show Me Where It Hurts by Claire Gleeson
Cover image and blurb from GoodreadsWhen rebellious aristocrat Cressida and Lord Greville parted ways, they swore never to meet again. Their short marriage had already descended into bitter estrangement, destroyed by scandal and betrayal.Years later, Greville is a soldier in the Peninsular War and Cressida is following the drum as another man’s lover. Scorned by … Continue reading Book Review: My Lady’s Secrets, by Katy Moran
Blurb and cover image from GoodreadsA gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto’s Parkdale during the tumultuous ’60s.“I didn’t kill her. I had the thought, the idea. What’s the saying? The road to heaven is paved with bad intentions?”Police academy burnout turned private eye Patrick Bird works divorce cases, using … Continue reading Book Review: The Road to Heaven by Alexis-Stefanovich-Thomson
Blurb and book cover image from Goodreads.Something bad happened last night.I’ve woken up with the hangover from hell, a stranger in my bed, and I’ve gone viral for the worst reasons. But I can’t remember a thing…My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic accident. I know she was murdered. There’s only … Continue reading Book Review: The Murder After the Night Before, by Katy Brent
Blurb and book cover image from Goodreads: The faeries of Witchwood Manor have stolen its young lord. His governess intends to steal him back.Victorian governess Winifred Hall knows a con when she sees one. When her bratty young charge transforms overnight into a perfectly behaved block of wood, she soon realises that the real boy has … Continue reading Book Review: The Witchwood Knot, by Olivia Atwater
Blurb from Goodreads: Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she … Continue reading Book Review: Carrie Soto Is Back, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
[goodreads] Blurb from Goodreads:The Irish Midlands, 1859. An English nurse, Lib Wright, is summoned to a tiny village to observe what some are claiming as a medical anomaly or a miracle - a girl said to have survived without food for months. Tourists have flocked to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, and a journalist … Continue reading Book Review: The Wonder, by Emma Donoghue
[goodreads] Blurb from Goodreads: In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.But when the … Continue reading Book Review: The Once and Future Witches, by Alix E Harrow
[goodreads] Blurb from Goodreads: How far would you go for happily ever after?For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings...until she learns that the love of her life will marry another.Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with … Continue reading Book Review: Once Upon a Broken Heart, by Stephanie Garber
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