Linda

This book was just what I needed. All the mystery and romance of a good beach novel taking place at the Seaside Resort. The novel goes between two timelines; one in present day with Ivy Neale and one in the 1940-50's with her grandmother Ruth. Both timelines were done equally well and the book was a beautiful story about the power of family.

Terrific Read

Mel Robbins is amazing. She is a straight shooter who tells it like it is with no BS. She has her own struggles and isn't afraid to get real with herself or her readers. I highly recommend.

Kate Quinn is amazing. She never fails to draw me into her characters and their stories. I had never heard of Mila Pavlichenko before, and I was as enthralled by the “girl sniper” as everyone else seemed to be in the novel. I enjoy historical fiction and the author finds interesting people and events and makes them her own. I've become a huge fan and can't wait to see what she comes up with next.

Well I have never given J.R. Ward only 1 star before, but I couldn't even finish this book. I can't stand the new “villain” Devina and I was so disappointed in the darkness of the story and the fact that the Brothers were basically MIA for the most part. After 20 books I feel like the Brotherhood books have lost their magic and I won't be reading them any longer.

This was a great romance and an engaging story. Very much a slow burn as Gracie Lee meets the movie star Wei-Fang Lei and her leading man Sam. Wei-Fang Lei needs a break and although Sam objects Gracie Lee looks like Wei-Fang and takes on the job of being her for a few months. She and Sam begin to spend time together and get to know each other. There is also the friendship between Wei-Fang and Gracie that is very sweet and I enjoyed the character of Gracie so much. She was a people pleaser, who didn't always trust and believe in her own worth and she had so much growth during the story. It was also funny and I listened to it on Audible and the narrator was terrific. Definitely one to pick up this year.

Still good

A nice light read. I didn't mind myself quite as enthralled with this book as I was with some of the author's other books in the series. It was still good though and there are still loose ends to wrap up, so I'm sure we will be hearing more from the gang at Creel Creek.

This was such a heartwarming Christmas romance. Charlene (Charlie) Yang is a driven Dr. who has moved to Jewell Cove to get away from the high-powered life her parents wanted her to have. She is happy being a small town physician. It is a little hard to fit in when you are the new person in town though.

As she's helping to put the doll in the manger for the town's Christmas tree lighting, she meets Dave, an ex-seal and they have an immediate connection. He shows up again the next day for the Christmas tree lighting, but this time as they go to leave they discover the manager doll has been replaced with a real baby!

They are flung together was they deal with looking after the baby and the romance begins to develop, but they both have baggage they need to deal with too.

This was a great introduction to the Cheese Shop Mysteries. Willa Bauer has opened her new cheese shop, Curds & Whey and she needs a good review from the food critic Guy Lippinger. Guy is brusque and full of himself and she's sure he is going to be less than kind in his review. So when he shows up dead with her cheese knife in him, she is considered the prime suspect.

This is a fun cozy with great characters and an interesting mystery. I gave it 3 1/2 stars rounded up to 4.

I enjoyed the last half of this novel much more than the first half. I thought it dragged a bit and took a long time to get to the point. The characters were compelling though and I could see them grow and change throughout the book, which I think always makes characters (and people) more interesting.

Like many books about WWII, this one followed two different timelines, one in the present and one (through letters) in the past. Overall I thought it was a good read and worth picking up if you like WWII historical fiction.

I gave this one 3 1/2 stars (there is no way to do that on Goodreads). Megan Fallon goes home to Bliss Bay after breaking up with her boyfriend and losing her job. There are 3 separate murders that happen and she begins to investigate them with her Uncle Des. There is a guy there that she knew as a teenager and she spends some time with him and realized that he's a lot more interesting than she remembers.

A neighbourhood cat befriends her and her family and spends most of his time with them. He becomes involved in another mystery and although he's always very sweet to Megan, he is quick to try to scratch and bite anyone he doesn't like.

The only thing that really kept this from getting a higher rating is the fact that Megan's ex-husband and his new wife live in that town and they are absolutely awful. They didn't need to be part of the book and I wish they had been left out.

I really enjoyed this book. Aleisha begins to work at the library and at first she's not happy about it, but when she meets a lonely widower named Mukesh, things begin to change. She finds a Reading List in a book and begins to recommend those books to Mukesh and also begins to read them herself.

Books have the power to change us and the way we see the world and they begin to change both Aleisha and Mukesh and also to create a powerful friendship between the two.

Intriguing novel with a main character that has a lot of layers to her personality. Full of plot twists and interesting characters, it makes for an interesting read and is a good reminder that the “invisible” among us are also people with wisdom to contribute to society.

I thought this novel was a fascinating look at how little we can sometimes know about people and whether those assumptions are based solely on what they tell us, or also on what we know about their character. It also delves into a mother's love and how that doesn't have to be a bond by blood. I loved the relationships in this book and the story itself. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because I found there were times I was “told” the information in a way where I would rather have “discovered” it through the plot. Overall, a good read and one that has the reader imagining “What would I do in that situation?”

Loves this series

I don't always find a seriesof books enjoyable as there are usually one or two that don't hold up well. This series has been the exception so far. Each book has been engaging in its own right and the characters and their stories continue to evolve. It's a wonderful cozy read.

I would have given this book 5 stars except the amount of Science in the book was a little overwhelming at times and I had to skim parts of it. In spite of that, however, the plot was interesting and the characters were compelling . The bond of friendship between the main characters was a real joy to read. The way they learned about each other and came together over a common problem was so heartwarming. I loved the ending and it made me think about the book long after I finished it.

I enjoyed this book. When Cara shows up at Jack's door with her daughter in tow, he doesn't know what to think. The timeline seems right for Sophie to be his little girl, but why has Cara showed up now? His wife Rebecca, who never wanted children, isn't happy about it, but even she won't throw them out when they claim to have nowhere to go.

Cara seems to have a lot of secrets and some kind of hidden agenda, but as Sophie begins to win Jack and Rebecca over they settle into a routine. Eventually Cara's secrets are revealed, but they aren't what I was expecting at all.

I found it dragged a little in spots, and it seemed maybe a little too simplistic of a solution to a complicated issue, but for the most part, I enjoyed it.

This is not the type of cozy mystery that I gravitate to, but it was incredible. Cleopatra Fox's parents died a few years ago and she lived with her grandmother. When her grandmother eventually passes away she goes to live with her Aunt and Uncle and their children at the Mayfair Hotel. Her parents had been estranged from them, so she knows very little about them.

One of the guests ends up being murdered on Christmas Eve, so Cleopatra starts to question the staff and try to help solve the case.

The characters are all great in this story and the whole hotel is like a cozy small town. We get to know the doormen, maids, manager and more, as well as Cleopatra and her family.

I was intrigued with the characters and the mystery, and I can't wait to read the next book in the series.

This book was so perfect. It was about Frankie (Franchesca) and Ren. Ren is a hockey player and Frankie is the teams social media person. Frankie has autism as well as Rheumatoid arthritis. She has a cane that she named and she considers herself grumpy, but really she is just dealing with pain and a different way of looking at the world and she has never felt accepted.

When she begins to fall in love with Ren she is scared because she feels like she's a lot to handle and he will get tired of it all. Their love story is so real and amazing and it's definitely full of steamy moments, but it's the tenderness and the empathy of the characters that really makes this novel so incredible.

Chloe Liese is very inclusive in her writing and creates amazing characters, but not in a way that is just checking a box, in a real and meaningful way. I am so excited to read about the rest of the Bergman Brothers now. 5/5+ for this book.

Fabulous! Another winner for Kate Quinn. Wonderfully human, engaging characters in a world filled with the chaos of war. When I first realized it was about Bletchley Park I wasn't sure I would care for it. I kind of felt the story had already been told, but I was so wrong. Kate Quinn took the lives of three women and fleshed out their stories in a way that was so captivating. There are so many trails and snippets to each of their lives that I couldn't even pick a favourite character. They were all interesting and very different. I can't wait to see what's next for this author as she has quickly become one of my favourites.

I'm absolutely loving this series of books. They are full of Harry Potter references, fun characters that feel cozy and warm and an incredible, magical small town. If I had to compare it to anything from tv, it would be a combination of The Good Witch and Charmed. Just the sort of story I have been needing with everything going on in the world today. So very glad I found these books and I can't wait to start the next one.

I thought this book was amazing. I am sure that I read this author before, but it was many years ago and I'm not sure which book it was. I waited far too long to go back to her. This novel is about a mother who adopted her son 3 years ago and everything seemed fine until she saw a face in a “missing” flyer that looked just like him.

I'm not sure I would have made the same choices that the main character makes, but she's a reporter and she feels as though she needs to get to the bottom of the mystery. The author does a great job making the book suspenseful and I had a hard time putting it down until I found out what was going to happen to this family.

Being a big fan of the Norse legends, I was curious where this novel was going to take me. In the first few chapters, I confess I wasn't sure I was going to keep reading. I felt that the author's portrayal of Loki was fippant and didnt align with what I thought he should be. But, don't give up. Once I settled into the story further, it took a turn into the world of the Aesir that held truer to what I knew.

The relationship between Angrboda and Skadi was complex and heartwarming and I enjoyed the journey the author took us on with the two of them.

Ultimately this is a story of a mother's love for her children and her perseverance to keep them safe and in that, Genevieve succeeds.

This exceeded my expectations. It was interesting, funny in parts and the characters interaction with each other was captivating. Annie desperately needs to marry a Lord to save a ghost named Finn and she looks to Ian to get lessons on being a lady. What she doesn't know is that Ian is a Lord and he's falling for her.

I listened to this on audible and the narration was great and it transported me to Scotland. It does have some steamy bits to it and the ending is sweet and satisfying.

The story was interesting and surprising. I had never heard of Home Children and it's incredible that this is part of Canadian history that is not taught or talked about. Unfortunately I listened to it on Audible and the narration was very stilted and didn't do justice to the characters, but that's no fault of the book. The characters and their stories were fascinating and heartbreaking and the author did a great job going between past and present. A story I believe every Canadian should read.

I enjoyed this book, but it's certainly not the best in the genre. Like so many of them, it went between two timelines; the present and WW2. It had a couple of twists, however, I found they were predictable. That being said though, the characters were interesting for the most part and the story was fairly well told. I did find that I wasn't really engaged with the characters in the present, only the ones during WW2 and most of the book was devoted to them.

Overall, it's a pleasant read, but if you have read a lot of WW2 fiction, this one is just more of the same.