Fiction Dolly Alderton
When Jen breaks up with Andy after four years together, it really knocks him over. Andy, a thirty-five-year-old comedian, really loves Jen and thought they'd be together forever. Now what will he do?
This sounds like a terrible story from that premise but it was really good!. I loved the characters and there were some funny bits too. I did wish for more happily-ever-after.....
I will look for more books by this author!
Amazon Prime Kindle Fiction by Dandy Smith
Thirteen-year-old Olivia and ten-year-old Caitlin are home alone while their parents are out for the evening. Tragically, Olivia disappears that night, leaving Caitlin with a confused story of a masked man who stole her sister. Sixteen years later, Olivia finally returns, but refuses to say where she's been. Caitlin even begins to wonder if the woman who has come home is really Olivia!
Also there's a side plot about Elinor and Heath, a brother and sister who are kept trapped in their family mansion by an evil uncle. It takes way too long to figure out how theses stories connect.
This book was more convoluted than it needed to be in my opinion, and it slipped into unbelievable all too quickly. I ended up skipping a wide swath of the story to try to find out the end. It was okay, I guess...
I also read recently (for free!) by Amazon Prime Kindle: A Mother's Secret
Fiction by Laura Powell
Fifteen-year-old Betty Broadbent lives at the Eden Inn in the small town of St. Steele, Cornwall, where her mother is manageress. In the summer of 1956, the inn fills up with reporters chasing the story of the Cornwall Cleaver, a serial killer stalking the area. Betty becomes infatuated with one of the reporters and begins to get more than a glimmer of suspicion about the killer. Still, she is afraid to come forward with what she knows.
Soon the police are closing in on a murder suspect who is eventually charged and jailed. But what if the police have the wrong man? The idea continues to haunt Betty for years, wondering if her silence sent an innocent man to prison. Who was the real Cornwall Cleaver?
This was a pretty good story but I didn't love it.
Fiction by Harlan Coben
This book is number twelve in the Myron Bolitar series. (Number one was Deal Breaker; number eleven was Home) It's pretty rare for me to still be interested in a detective-type character for that long, but with this one, I still am. I actually still like Myron, and the mysteries haven't gotten stale or impossible.
In this story, one of Myron's clients is a suspect in a murder. Now this has happened before --Myron is a lawyer and sports agent-- but this time, the client in question is supposed to be dead. But is he?
This was a good story with lots of surprises.
I also read recently by this author: The Match
Audible Original Fiction by Yahtzee Croshaw
Fiction by Hazel Prior
I chose this book for its title. Obviously.
It was a fun little story about a crotchety old lady in Scotland called Veronica who became slightly obsessed with fate of penguins in Antarctica.
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Fiction by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Remy Blake is only five years old when his dad decides the world is going straight to heck and moves them both out to the woods to live "off the grid" while civilization disappears. How will the two of them survive out there alone? Is society really going to burn itself down? And what will Remy do if he and his dad need a doctor?
This was a great story with memorable and believable characters.
Fiction by Imogen Clark
After her father’s unexpected death, (the Honorable) Clio Montgomery-Smith feels compelled to find out the meaning of some things written in a little notebook he had carried. Her journey begins with the address of a little house in the seaside town of Whitley Bay, not far away geographically from her own home at Hartford Hall, but worlds away in terms of class distinction.
At the house she meets a woman called Leah Allen, who lives there with her two children. What is the connection between Clio’s father and this little family? And will Clio be sorry to have gone looking for the truth?
This was a good story with likeable characters.
Amazon Kindle Prime Fiction by Caroline Finnerty
Rowan Whelan asks her old college boyfriend James to meet her one day because she has something to tell him. When a car accident interrupts them, it seems Rowan will never get to reveal the secret she had meant to tell James. But then it seems the secret will come out on its own: a secret that could devastate Rowan’s husband and three children, as well as James’s wife Helena.
This was a pretty good book but a little more predictable than I’d have liked.
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Fiction by Diane Chamberlain
Susanna Miller is a young single mother with an eleven-month-old son called Tyler whom she loves desperately. So when her ex-husband Jim and his new wife Peggy win custody of Tyler, Susanna feels she has no choice but the take her little boy and run away, changing her name and leaving everything behind her.
This was an exciting story with memorable characters.
