title: Two Wrongs Make a Right author: Chloe Liese publisher: Berkley Romance (of Penguin Random House LLC) publication date: November 22, 2022 pages:320 peppers: 2 (on this scale) warnings: abusive relationship summary: Bea and Jamie meet at a party where everything goes wrong for them. Still, her twin sister and his roommate, who are newly…
“Why”…Wednesdays
Review of Georgie All Along
title: Georgie All Along author: Kate Clayborn publisher: Kensington publication date: January 24, 2023 pages: 335 peppers: 2 warnings: vomit, birth summary: Georgie heads home to her small town after losing her job as a personal assistant to a Hollywood powerhouse. She has no idea what to do with her life except that she wants to…
NetGalley Review of Tilly in Technicolor
title: Tilly in Technicolor author: Mazey Eddings publisher: Wednesday Books publication date: August 15, 2023 pages: 320 peppers: 2 warnings: puke summary: After her high school graduation, Tilly’s parents send her on a European trip as intern to her successful sister, who’s starting an environmentally friendly nail polish line. While her parents want Tilly to…
NetGalley Review of Plot Twist
title: Plot Twist author: Erin La Rosa publisher: Canary Street Press publication date: November 14, 2023 pages: 336 peppers: 3 on this scale warnings: alcoholism, vomit summary: Sophie is a romance author who hasn’t ever been in love and is stuck trying to figure out a happy ending for her second novel. Her landlord and…
NetGalley Review of Relative Fiction
title: Relative Fiction author: Alaina Rose publisher: self-published publication date: April 12, 2023 pages: 255 peppers: 3 (on this scale) warnings: lots, she gives a long list at the beginning of the book including vomit, a nasal cannula, lots of drinking, and a dying parent summary: Julia recently got an anonymous email informing her that her…
220. Why I’m Making a List
If I managed the navigation correctly, the photo above will bring you to a site on which you can read another mother’s hopes for her daughters. Maybe you’ve already read the amazing Tina Fey’s viral list; if you haven’t, for goodness sake, click the link! Her poem/prayer/list works well in its humor and specificity. It…
Review of Maggie Moves On
It’s not a NetGalley review, but I thought it might be fun to post another review, while I’m on a roll. title: Maggie Moves On author: Lucy Score publisher: Forever (Grand Central Publishing) publication date: June 21, 2022 pages: 416 peppers: 3, some pretty graphic scenes warnings: nothing gross in this book summary: Maggie flips houses…
NetGalley Review of Summer on Sunshine Bay
I’m trying this new format for my NetGalley reviews. Please let me know what you think. Author/Title: Debbie Mason’s Summer on Sunshine Bay Publisher: Forever Publication Date: May 23, 2023 Pages: 368 Peppers: 1 (and it’s a bell pepper) Warnings: Puke Summary: Lila’s fiancé David surprises her by bringing her to her hometown, where his…
NetGalley Review of Right Girl, Wrong Side
Ginny Baird’s Right Girl, Wrong Side (400 pages, Sourcebooks Casablanca, coming out 28 March 2023) is a fun take on the Hatfields and the McCoys. This one pepper (a bell pepper at that) book has feuding families, the tightly held, white Hatfields (in case we didn’t get the connection) and the loud, Puerto Rican Machados, together…
NetGalley Review of Hello Stranger
Katherine Center’s Hello Stranger (336 pages, St. Martin’s Press, coming out 11 July 2023) was wonderful in all the ways a romance novel should be wonderful. The point-of-view character, a portrait artist, acquires prosopagnosia, more commonly called face blindness. What I love about this one-pepper book (and the author even talks about this in a short,…