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adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Description: Five years into their happily ever after, Isabel and Johnny are making the most of their second chance at love. In the wake of loss Johnny and Isobel’s world is irrevocably altered. Isabel does her best to give Johnny space as he struggles to accept the new chapter life has opened for them. But Johnny can’t do it alone—no one can. As the whole family is soon to discover, seasons change, but love never does.
What I loved 💕:
💕multiple types of love depicted (sisterly& couple)
💕love story between Isabel & Johnny
💕Hypnotic type of writing
💕Dream Realm
Not my cup☕️:
☕️the leaving the nest trope
🎧Audiobook:
🎧The narrators voice Jennifer Jill Araya is easy to listen to and enhances the lyrical writing of Hoffmans work.
🎧Araya brings both the female and male parts to life and demonstrates a good variation in vocal tone for the female and male parts.
Some of my favourite Quotes from the book:📕
📕”You can’t love someone too much”
📕”She had married a man who cried & was patient & who wasn’t afraid to love someone.”
📕”Some things would always be remembered because they were handed down, things like love and memories and stories.”
Ideal Reader:
✨ Fans of magical realism
✨ readers who enjoy lyrical writing
✨ Fans of Hoffman’s other work like Practical Magic
✨ Fans of long lasting romances
Trigger Warnings:‼️
‼️Death of a parent
Thanks to NetGalley, Author Alice Hoffman & The publisher for this ARC audiobook & paperback in exchange for a fair & honest review.
What I loved 💕:
💕multiple types of love depicted (sisterly& couple)
💕love story between Isabel & Johnny
💕Hypnotic type of writing
💕Dream Realm
Not my cup☕️:
☕️the leaving the nest trope
🎧Audiobook:
🎧The narrators voice Jennifer Jill Araya is easy to listen to and enhances the lyrical writing of Hoffmans work.
🎧Araya brings both the female and male parts to life and demonstrates a good variation in vocal tone for the female and male parts.
Some of my favourite Quotes from the book:📕
📕”You can’t love someone too much”
📕”She had married a man who cried & was patient & who wasn’t afraid to love someone.”
📕”Some things would always be remembered because they were handed down, things like love and memories and stories.”
Ideal Reader:
✨ Fans of magical realism
✨ readers who enjoy lyrical writing
✨ Fans of Hoffman’s other work like Practical Magic
✨ Fans of long lasting romances
Trigger Warnings:‼️
‼️Death of a parent
Thanks to NetGalley, Author Alice Hoffman & The publisher for this ARC audiobook & paperback in exchange for a fair & honest review.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It’s Wine O’clock, hooking up with Chaotic exes, Winery Rivals & Long-time girl crushes.
Tropes: Forced Proximity-Boss|New Employee, Blindfolded threesome(all female), Save Family Business
Description:
Zoe Brennan is juggling a lot trying to save her family winery, dealing with the fall out of a blindfolded threesome with her chaotic ex, Harlow. While being reunited with her first ever girl crush, Laine, in a less than ideal manner. To make it even more awkward Zoe is also Laine’s new boss.
What I loved 💜:
💜Text message threads
💜Chaotic Ex
💜Banter between characters
💜Reunited with her first girl crush
💜 Forced proximity set up
Not my cuppa ☕️:
☕️ Using first & last names for characters
☕️ Wine Snobbery
Ideal Reader:
✨ Fans of romance with a lot of romcom drama
✨ Fans of ‘Lovers by Rebekah Faubon’
Tropes: Forced Proximity-Boss|New Employee, Blindfolded threesome(all female), Save Family Business
Description:
Zoe Brennan is juggling a lot trying to save her family winery, dealing with the fall out of a blindfolded threesome with her chaotic ex, Harlow. While being reunited with her first ever girl crush, Laine, in a less than ideal manner. To make it even more awkward Zoe is also Laine’s new boss.
What I loved 💜:
💜Text message threads
💜Chaotic Ex
💜Banter between characters
💜Reunited with her first girl crush
💜 Forced proximity set up
Not my cuppa ☕️:
☕️ Using first & last names for characters
☕️ Wine Snobbery
Ideal Reader:
✨ Fans of romance with a lot of romcom drama
✨ Fans of ‘Lovers by Rebekah Faubon’
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Tropes:
Fated love, magical family, reincarnation, witch hunter, epic battle good vs evil
Bio:
Present day- Dora is heading back to Salem to reunite with her aunts & mother. However Dora will also be reunited with the secrets the family are keeping & the English women legacy.
1600s- The English women live amongst the witch hysteria. This is a particularly dangerous time for women who are magically inclined. The men that love them are connected to the witch trails, but only one of pair is truly in love.
Love this 💕:
💕Hades the talking crow
💕 Magical family
💕reincarnations of the family members
Cup of tea ☕️:
☕️ Original bio I felt wasn’t an accurate description of the story and it’s strengths
☕️ Vanishing Bookstore wasn’t central to story the entire time
Ideal Reader:
✨Someone looking for a final battle against evil
✨Fans of practical Magic
Fated love, magical family, reincarnation, witch hunter, epic battle good vs evil
Bio:
Present day- Dora is heading back to Salem to reunite with her aunts & mother. However Dora will also be reunited with the secrets the family are keeping & the English women legacy.
1600s- The English women live amongst the witch hysteria. This is a particularly dangerous time for women who are magically inclined. The men that love them are connected to the witch trails, but only one of pair is truly in love.
Love this 💕:
💕Hades the talking crow
💕 Magical family
💕reincarnations of the family members
Cup of tea ☕️:
☕️ Original bio I felt wasn’t an accurate description of the story and it’s strengths
☕️ Vanishing Bookstore wasn’t central to story the entire time
Ideal Reader:
✨Someone looking for a final battle against evil
✨Fans of practical Magic
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Tropes: Small Town; GrumpyxSunshine ; Inherited/Gifted Business; Fear of Abandonment; Open door romance
Description:
When Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Cafe in the small town of Dream Harbour, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start. Logan is Dream Harbours’ bad luck with love hottie— who can’t handle getting hurt again.
What I loved💜:
Description:
When Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Cafe in the small town of Dream Harbour, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start. Logan is Dream Harbours’ bad luck with love hottie— who can’t handle getting hurt again.
What I loved💜:
💜 Supernatural element of a possible ghost
💜 Fear of abandonment rep in MMC
💜 Banter between FMC & MMC
💜 Set in October in USA ( so fall)
💜 Safe Spice rep
💜 Minor mystery reveal
Not my Cuppa☕️:
Not my Cuppa☕️:
☕️ some of the body descriptions like ‘scorching’ my brain thinks too literally
Ideal Reader: Someone looking for a quirky low stakes cozy M/F romance with Spice.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This powerful story is all about resilience and the power of shedding labels and starting again.
The book is beautifully written and has so many gorgeous quotes.
My Favourite Quote:
“They could feel the inside wounds, the tally they kept from the punishments, the things they had been named & deemed, the ways they had tried & fallen short.”
Or
“If you can get it, loves the things to have.”
What I loved:
💕FMC messy, honest and resilient journey
💕Later in life coming out representation
The book is beautifully written and has so many gorgeous quotes.
My Favourite Quote:
“They could feel the inside wounds, the tally they kept from the punishments, the things they had been named & deemed, the ways they had tried & fallen short.”
Or
“If you can get it, loves the things to have.”
What I loved:
💕FMC messy, honest and resilient journey
💕Later in life coming out representation
A world in which your darkest secrets come back as people when you die.
Eerie is a hushed. Logan is a hell-raising son of one of the infamous Ironbark Prison fire. Eerie doesn’t know what secret formed her but she knows it’s connected to the Prison fire. The Hush are compelled to reveal their secrets and drop dead shortly after. Hushed are also out casts in society and often live on the run.
What I loved:
🤍Strong FMC
🤍Forbidden Love
🤍Supernatural creatures called the Hushed
🤍Good Trauma representation
What’s not my cuppa tea:
☕️ slower pace, I prefer mid paced books
☕️ YA romance / closed door
☕️ That I have to wait for the sequel
Ideal Reader:
A fan of a thriller with Romantasy. Fans of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare.
Eerie is a hushed. Logan is a hell-raising son of one of the infamous Ironbark Prison fire. Eerie doesn’t know what secret formed her but she knows it’s connected to the Prison fire. The Hush are compelled to reveal their secrets and drop dead shortly after. Hushed are also out casts in society and often live on the run.
What I loved:
🤍Strong FMC
🤍Forbidden Love
🤍Supernatural creatures called the Hushed
🤍Good Trauma representation
What’s not my cuppa tea:
☕️ slower pace, I prefer mid paced books
☕️ YA romance / closed door
☕️ That I have to wait for the sequel
Ideal Reader:
A fan of a thriller with Romantasy. Fans of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare.
I read this book in one go but it’s designed as an advent calendar. I really enjoyed the idea of reading one piece each day. The murder mystery is designed to have you solve the murder alongside the witty detective. This underestimated amuteur sleuth has his finger on pulse of what happened once again.
What I loved 💕:
💕 The advent chapter / Calendar style of the book
💕 Solve along aspect of the mystery book
💕The complexity of the murder
💕Easy, Fun Read
💕Ernest Cunningham- amateur sleuth
What was not my cuppa ☕️:
☕️ Some of the big twists were similar to popular twists in other mysterys.
☕️Ideally I would have liked each chapter sealed for actually opening like I’ve seen other book advent calendars
Ideal Reader:
✨Someone looking for a Christmas read that is a mystery instead of romance
✨Someone keen to try a book chapter adventure calendar
✨Some on who likes a complicated murder mystery
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Rating:3.5 ⭐️
Bio:
In this second chance romance Charlotte Donovan and Brighton are thrown together for Christmas at Sloane’s family Christmas.
What I loved 💕:
💕 The musical aspect of this book - band break up
“Only music could really do that -- bring everything to the surface, make the memories alive, sharpen the time-dulled pain to a point”
💕The Christmas setting
💕The tension between the reunited characters
💕The friendship circle representation
💕Brightons P.O.V. She doesn’t have it all together she lying to family to look for trad successful.
Not my Cuppa Tea:☕️
☕️Why ? This second chance romance didn’t work out prior
☕️The Runaway bride aspect it’s just feels too monumental to get over.
☕️ ‘Good Girl’ in 🌶️scenes these are women
☕️Charlotte( Lola) not answering direct Questions & letting misunderstandings linger.
Ideal Reader:
✨True fan of second-chance romances, miscommunications and Runaway bride tropes
✨ Reader looking for a Sapphic Christmas read 🎄
✨HEA reader
Bio:
In this second chance romance Charlotte Donovan and Brighton are thrown together for Christmas at Sloane’s family Christmas.
What I loved 💕:
💕 The musical aspect of this book - band break up
“Only music could really do that -- bring everything to the surface, make the memories alive, sharpen the time-dulled pain to a point”
💕The Christmas setting
💕The tension between the reunited characters
💕The friendship circle representation
💕Brightons P.O.V. She doesn’t have it all together she lying to family to look for trad successful.
Not my Cuppa Tea:☕️
☕️Why ? This second chance romance didn’t work out prior
☕️The Runaway bride aspect it’s just feels too monumental to get over.
☕️ ‘Good Girl’ in 🌶️scenes these are women
☕️Charlotte( Lola) not answering direct Questions & letting misunderstandings linger.
Ideal Reader:
✨True fan of second-chance romances, miscommunications and Runaway bride tropes
✨ Reader looking for a Sapphic Christmas read 🎄
✨HEA reader