a_stylish_bookworm's Reviews (1.53k)

This book feels so timely with the election and the divide of the country with politics. This book explores so many topics from different political views in a relationship and marriage in crisis. There'a a lot going on between Gabe and Ethan's relationship and Ethan's political aspirations to Nicole's questioning her role as a wife and reconnecting with Kate. 

The story is well done and added a lot of humor with Ethan and Gabe's daughter. I found the story entertaining and Gabra Zackman did a great job with the narration. 

Thank you @bookclubgirl @williammorrowbooks for a copy of the book.

I really love the first 2 books of this series and was excited to Keane's story. Keane agrees to go on a road trip with Maddy as a favor to his brother. They are strangers that start off pretty rocky with missed texts. 

The big miss for me in this story was Keane as a character. He was beyond over the top with his baby doll, adorbsicle and all the live long day sayings. For me, he was too shallow of a character. He was all about how much he knew about pleasing women and boasted way too much to a stranger. 

I did appreciate Keane's love for his mom and that was prominent in the other books as well. 

The car trip was fun and I enjoyed seeing the other Morgan family making appearance in the story. 

Despite this book being not my favorite, I will continue to the series.

This book truly felt like you are behind the scenes of one of the housewives shows. Set in New Jersey, we have Hope that married Leo Fontana and agrees to join the show to further her music career. 

This is a total popcorn thriller with some over the top characters. I loved how everyone had secrets and how these secrets prompted their actions. 

I really enjoyed the show runner, Eden as a character. Her moral delimma of furthering her career with manipulation of the housewives or investigate what's going on brought an interesting perspective to the story. 

The cast of narrators of Mia Barron, Sean Patrick, Emily Lawrence, Allyson Ryan and Devon Sorvari brought this to life. 

Thank you @simonandschuster @simon.audio for a copy of the book.

Thank you @prhaudio @libro.fm @atrandombooks for a copy of this book. 

This was a total IG made me do it book. I highly recommend reading this via audiobook, it was such a great experience. The story centers on Katrina and Heath and their journey as figure skaters. 

The story felt at parts like a documentary, at part a love story, and observations from 3rd party and multiple POVs. There is a big cast of narrators to really make this a rich immersive experience. 

Their story is intense from their teenage years and through their adulthood. I really loved how the story showed the dedication that is needed to compete at Olympic level and I felt bad for the kids the lost their childhood to prepare for that chance. 

Katrina and Heath's story is messy and all the supporting characters added so much to the story.

This was my first John Marrs book and it won't be the last. The premise of the book was intriguing as we expand the use of AI and now using AI for raising a baby for a contest to win money for resources for a real baby. 

We follow the contestants and get to see how they handle the AI baby and the public gets to vote on it too. I love how you learn secrets of each of the contestants and how these secrets leads to the end of the game for you.

I love the twist and how the story revealed it. There was a casts of narrators for each of the contestants and made it easier to distinguish each of them. 

This was a cute life time academic rival between Sadie and Seb. Their parents are best friends and they grew up together and went to school and competed as top student. We see them starting college and again, competing.

At college, they are both competing for the same job on the school paper. We see them breaking down the animosity and rediscover their friendship while growing into themselves.

The story is cute and the characters is very on point with college students. The supporting characters were great and added a fun element to the story. 

Thank you @wednesdaybooks @netgalley for a copy of this.

I have enjoyed this series and was excited to see Asher's story. In the other books, we got glimpses of him as a well liked hockey player. This love story is between Asher and his best friend, Maeve, who also happens to be his hockey teammate's sister. 

Maeve wins an auction with a date with Asher and goes to Vegas and of course...gets married. The end up keeping up with the marriage to help each other and of course sees each other in a new light. The banter between them is great and I love how they both resisted each other. The slow burn is so good. 

I love that this book addresses some mental health issues and also the support friends. It was great seeing characters from the series as well. 

The duet narration of Vanessa Edwin and Robert Hatchet brought the romance to life. 

Thank you @laurenblakelybooks @hambright_pr for the audiobook.

The Lodge is a romance set in ski resort in Vermont about Alix being a ghostwriter for Sebastian who was famous for being in a boy band. The book has an element of mystery as well with the disappearance of Jett, who was in the same band.

I really enjoyed how Alix and her experience at the ski resort. Her meeting with the ski instructor Tyler and their growing relationship. To her making friends with the staff at the resort. 

I really enjoyed Tyler and Alix together. Tyler was such a cinnamon roll with his attention to her. 

I enjoyed the voice memos and social media articles that were in between the chapters to give us an insight to the past for True North. The narration of Andi Arndt, Graham Halstead and Gilli Messer was perfect in bringing the story to life.

Thank you @atriabooks @simon.audio for a copy of the book.

I loved The Girl with the Louding Voice and I am so excited to get more of Adunni. Adunni is excited to start school but is pulled away back to her home town being accused of something so did. 

Tia goes and try and find Adunni and get her back to school. The story is well told with Adunni's words as well as other girls and women that were accused of doing something they did. These stories really show how women are treated unfairly in remote villages. 

A beautiful story about how the oppressed women rise. 

Adjoa Andoh did such a great job with all the characters and bringing them to life

I am loving this series so much!! An accidental baggage mix up is what starts Max and Everly's story. Max is the grumpy goalie that refuses to talk to the media. It's Everly's job to get hockey players to be loved by the media. 

They are forced together to create more likeable profile for Max. They end up spending a lot of time together and can't fight their attraction. Max is so attentive to Everly. Both have issues to overcome and I liked how they supported each other. So fun and steamy!!

The narration of Vanessa Edwin and Teddy Hamilton brought the story to life.