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Entitled White Rich Kid Thinks He Can Do What He Wants…Or Maybe It Wasn’t Him?

All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin

February 4, 2019 by Melina 2 Comments

Nina Browning has everything. She lives in a house that cost over 4 million dollars, a handsome and extremely successful husband, a son who was recently accepted into Princeton and she gets to spend most of her nights going to charity galas and “making a difference” in the ritzy part of Nashville’s scene. While at one of these galas, Nina’s life is completely upended when she’s shown a photo that her son supposedly shared from a party. This makes her take a hard look […]

Just Take What You Want

The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham

February 4, 2019 by Melina Leave a Comment

Agatha is a young pregnant woman working at a convenience store when she sees and is dazzled by the also pregnant but elegant, Meg. Meg has everything that Agatha could want; money, a handsome husband, and two gorgeous and perfect children. In comparison, Agatha feels like a failure–she has lost several babies, her ex-husband left her (partially because of it), her current boyfriend isn’t speaking to her and doesn’t even know she’s pregnant because he’s in the Royal Navy and she doesn’t have that much […]

Another Haverston Family novel, another decapitated cover model…

Practically Wicked by Alissa Johnson

February 3, 2019 by alphabootoo 2 Comments

Practically Wicked is the final book in the Haverston Family trilogy and is nice in that we do spend a little more time with the Haverston family in this one – it was odd that they were relegated to secondary characters in the previous book. This is another romance that doesn’t have much in the way of wild plot shenanigans – just a nice, comforting read which was perfect for a sick day when all I wanted to do was curl up with a cup […]

If the Gentleman had been Expected, perhaps she would have had time to apply her remaining eye and the top of her skull.

An Unexpected Gentleman by Alissa Johnson

February 3, 2019 by alphabootoo Leave a Comment

An Unexpected Gentleman is the second book in the Haverston Family trilogy by Alissa Johnson. While I really enjoyed the first book, this one fell flat for me. I think, however, that part of the reason has to do with my state of mind as much as the story itself – I have been sick and not feeling good makes me cranky. I tend to read romances for light escapism and this book didn’t really let me do that so I got irritated with it. […]

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

February 3, 2019 by Dusty Highway Leave a Comment

This won’t be a long review. I don’t have anything substantive to add to what’s already been written and said about Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give, and I’m not sure it’s appropriate for me to say anything at all. As a middle-aged, middle-class white guy from the very white Deep Midwest, I’m several degrees of separation from this book’s intended audience, but that’s exactly why it’s an important read for people like me. Starr lives in a rough neighborhood where everyone knows her because […]

Do you suppose Nearly a Lady refers to the fact that they’ve cut off the top of her head on the cover art?

Nearly a Lady by Alissa Johnson

February 3, 2019 by alphabootoo Leave a Comment

When Winnefred Blythe was 13, her father died rescuing horses from a burning stable. As he lay dying, he asked the nearest gentleman to accept his Freddie as a ward and the Marquess of Engsly, thinking he was taking on a boy and feeling generous at having his valuable horses saved, agreed. Upon learning he had acquired a young girl, he passed along her care to his wife, who arranged for Freddie to be sent to the country in the care of another slightly older […]

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