By Emma Brodie ** Publication Date 22 June 2021 ** Sometimes all you need a bit of luck to make your dreams come true. For Jane Quinn, performing on the big stage at her local music festival was that dream. She and her band, The Breakers, had been playing together locally for years. The Breakers …
By Vicki Grant ** Publication Date 15 June 2021 ** 4 stars Warning: contains themes of sexual assault, addiction. Davida recently started a job as a simulated patient at a med school. Seemed like a great way to get her parents off her back for being an introvert. When the most popular girl around, Viv …
By Marta Orriols Translated by Mara Fay Lethem ** Publication Date 15 June 2021 ** 3.75 stars Paula is grieving. Having suffered not one loss, with the death of her partner, but the loss of him shortly before his actual death. Mauro had just told Paula that their relationship was over. Now she is trying …
By Lindsey Rogers Cook ** Publication Date 1 June 2021 ** 4.5 stars After years of fleeing from place to place, Lex finds herself in a hospital in Bali without many choices. Her ex-boyfriend wants to reach out to someone for her, and Lex blurts out that he can reach out to her godmother. With …
By Amanda M. Fairbanks ** Publication Date 25 May 2021** 4.75 stars In March 1984 a fishing boat went down in the Atlantic during a storm. No, not the Andrea Gail, the F/V known as the Wind Blown. With four fishermen on board, no mayday was sounded, no distress calls, no known location. All that …
By Sara Flannery Murphy ** Publication Date 1 June 2021 ** 5 stars / This review will be posted at BookwormishMe.com on 16 May 2021. Perhaps my favorite book of 2021 so far. Josephine is a med student at the University of Chicago working on parthenogenesis. Truth be told, she chose this field of study …
By M.M. Chouinard ** Publication Date 27 May 2021 ** 4 stars / This review will be posted at BookwormishMe.com on 13 May 2021. When Rose’s brother-in-law plans an elaborate vacation for them in Jamaica, Rose balks at the idea. She comes up with every excuse imaginable to try to change the vacation plans, including …
Book Two of the Anderson Creek series By K.T. Egan ** Publication Date 4 May 2021** 4 stars When Cheyenne’s grandfather dies, the whole family gathers at his homestead to pay their respects. Cheyenne wonders what will happen to the home now that he’s gone. Then at the reading of the will, she has the …
By Molly E. Lee 4.5 stars Harley’s father has beaten her again and again. Making her feel like less than the ground walked upon. Meanwhile her intent is to shield her 7 year old half-sister Ray from that anger and venom. To protect her until Harley’s 18th birthday, just around the corner, when hopefully they …
By Imogen Clark ** Publication Date 29 April 2021 ** 4 stars Pip has moved home to Southwold to heal wounds. An accident, not of Pip’s making, turns her whole world upside down. She no longer feels capable of her job as a barrister. Living under her parents’ roof seems to be the only escape …