I love a well-written character, and Lila will stay with me for a while. She just checked so many boxes – complicated, firm, lovable, but unlovable, self-aware, strong, yet lacking in some very important ways. I can’t say enough good things about how well-written Lila was as a complicated, three-dimensional character. Like Mother, Like Mother Read more
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3.5 stars knocked down to 3 stars I wish we could give half stars because Here One Moment had some great moments but some moments seemed to drag as well. There were times I was not excited to pick up this book and I can’t give four stars to a book I’m not excited to
Three Keys was a tough book to rate. There were moments of enjoyment while reading and there were moments of “what in the heck am I reading right now”? Unfortunately, there were more what the heck thoughts than moments of enjoyment. The main character Ammalie is struggling through her own midlife crisis and has to
The Summer of Yes is a rom-com about Kelsey, a woman who’s living an empty life but doesn’t realize it until a near-death experience makes her re-evaluate everything. Meeting Georgina, an older, very wealthy, very cantankerous woman in the unlikeliest of places sets them both on a path of change. Overall, this is a cute
Ann Napolitano does not shy away from writing about real family dynamics even when this means showing the worst in people. She does not seem to care if the reader likes the characters, because here again is a book where it’s hard to find any one character to really like, but somehow you still want
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I blame this book fully on TikTok. I’d never heard of it or seen it before I started diving into the depths of BookTok. And then it was everywhere. I really want to like romance, at least sometimes, so after seeing it over and over and over again, I picked it up from the library.
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