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Nice light story.
Millsy and Cara make a pact to be each other's plus one at the many family gatherings they have over the summer. They manage to create a situation that could ruin the event each time, but also each time manage to save the day just before anyone notices.
They're great friends until Cara realises she wants more but doesn't think Millsy feels the same; even though she's noticed she seems to be a good influence on Millsy.
The big fall-out was a bit dumb (basically Cara not listening to what Millsy said), but luckily it wasn't played out for too long.
I read an ARC through NetGalley.
Millsy and Cara make a pact to be each other's plus one at the many family gatherings they have over the summer. They manage to create a situation that could ruin the event each time, but also each time manage to save the day just before anyone notices.
They're great friends until Cara realises she wants more but doesn't think Millsy feels the same; even though she's noticed she seems to be a good influence on Millsy.
The big fall-out was a bit dumb (basically Cara not listening to what Millsy said), but luckily it wasn't played out for too long.
I read an ARC through NetGalley.
OK read.
Characters were nice. Actually, Seb was so nice, I found it hard to imagine what the attraction was, other than him being a friend.
I read an ARC through NetGalley.
Characters were nice. Actually, Seb was so nice, I found it hard to imagine what the attraction was, other than him being a friend.
I read an ARC through NetGalley.
The Ménage à Trois is the third book in the Lora Weaver mystery series. Sixth story, if you also count the mini-mysteries.
Lora is settling into her life as a PI in training. This story opens as she is spying on a man suspected of insurance fraud at his bachelor party from inside a giant cake. The party - and the fake cake - take a spin for the worst when some men gate crash the party. When Lora crawles out of the cake all the party, except for the groom-to-be (Johnny) are gone.
Later, Lora finds a doll with a flash drive in her pocket. Left there by the Johnny when she went to check on him. When someone tries to kill the Johnny at the hospital and his sister hires Lora to find out who, Lora finds she investigating a lot more than insurance fraud. Particularly, when a local crime boss starts paying surprise visits to her home.
Her home, that also seems to be invaded by Tina, a pregnant and needy friend from her live in boyfriend Adam.
I loved this story. It’s the first I read in the series, but I want to read the rest of the series now too.
Lora is the sort of heroine I like in chick-lit, strong and a little bit insecure. So this is a chick-lit with a mystery. Two of my favourite genres and well-executed.
There is one thing I found annoying, though, and that's the amount of French Camile and Laurent used. I have colleagues who speak a second language during office hours and they don't constantly switch between two languages. It's very exhausting to constantly switch. It actually only makes sense if Camile and Laurent actually think in French and have to translate their own dialogue to English before they speak. Most ESL speakers (at least the proficiant ones) think in English. I think this would be the case for Camile and Laurent
I read a copy of this book through NetGalley.
Lora is settling into her life as a PI in training. This story opens as she is spying on a man suspected of insurance fraud at his bachelor party from inside a giant cake. The party - and the fake cake - take a spin for the worst when some men gate crash the party. When Lora crawles out of the cake all the party, except for the groom-to-be (Johnny) are gone.
Later, Lora finds a doll with a flash drive in her pocket. Left there by the Johnny when she went to check on him. When someone tries to kill the Johnny at the hospital and his sister hires Lora to find out who, Lora finds she investigating a lot more than insurance fraud. Particularly, when a local crime boss starts paying surprise visits to her home.
Her home, that also seems to be invaded by Tina, a pregnant and needy friend from her live in boyfriend Adam.
I loved this story. It’s the first I read in the series, but I want to read the rest of the series now too.
Lora is the sort of heroine I like in chick-lit, strong and a little bit insecure. So this is a chick-lit with a mystery. Two of my favourite genres and well-executed.
There is one thing I found annoying, though, and that's the amount of French Camile and Laurent used. I have colleagues who speak a second language during office hours and they don't constantly switch between two languages. It's very exhausting to constantly switch. It actually only makes sense if Camile and Laurent actually think in French and have to translate their own dialogue to English before they speak. Most ESL speakers (at least the proficiant ones) think in English. I think this would be the case for Camile and Laurent
I read a copy of this book through NetGalley.
Lovely story. I enjoyed it very much. A book like a long, warm cuddle.
Lola is the sort of heroine I like: confident in most matters, insecure in others.
The supporting cast are all lovely and not too quirky.
I read an ARC through NetGalley.
Lola is the sort of heroine I like: confident in most matters, insecure in others.
The supporting cast are all lovely and not too quirky.
I read an ARC through NetGalley.
After being rather embarrassingly dumped during a live TV show, Rosie finds a bunch of flowers on her doorstep. The note on it says: 'I love you. I never should have let you go. I want you back.' Rosie assumes the flowers are from Dave, the latest guy to dump her, but they are not. Then perhaps one of her other ex-boyfriends? Rosie sets out on a quest to visit all her exes.
The plot reminded me some what of 20 Times a Lady by Karyn Bosnak. Though her character Delilah has to go and visit 20 exes. Rosie only accumulated five. (And in both cases one of them is gay.)
The first three exes are quickly discounted, and the bulk of the story focusses on Rosie on board a cruiseship - where one ex works as a singer - on her way to New York - where another ex works as a photographer. I think I would have liked it better if Rosie had a few more exes to meet up with, rather than her hanging out with her parents and new best friend. (But have five exes all work on the same ship, that would be highly unlikely.)
Nice enough story, but for someone that has got the Rosie Outlook named after her because she's always such an optimistic thinker, she's doing an awful lot of negative thinking in this story.
I read an ARC through Netgalley.
The plot reminded me some what of 20 Times a Lady by Karyn Bosnak. Though her character Delilah has to go and visit 20 exes. Rosie only accumulated five. (And in both cases one of them is gay.)
The first three exes are quickly discounted, and the bulk of the story focusses on Rosie on board a cruiseship - where one ex works as a singer - on her way to New York - where another ex works as a photographer. I think I would have liked it better if Rosie had a few more exes to meet up with, rather than her hanging out with her parents and new best friend. (But have five exes all work on the same ship, that would be highly unlikely.)
Nice enough story, but for someone that has got the Rosie Outlook named after her because she's always such an optimistic thinker, she's doing an awful lot of negative thinking in this story.
I read an ARC through Netgalley.
I much prefer the British chick-lit writers (with a few exceptions) and this is another example of why. The story is well-written and the characters are realistic and engaging. Except maybe the conversations Libby had with Charlie's mum, those were a bit weird for two people that just met that day.
Charlie comes into Libby's life as a favour to his brother: to help the friend of a girl he fancies with her accounts. Libby likes Charlie immediately, but soon decides she's not his type and that she'd rather have him as a friend than not in her life at all. Friends they become.
Actually, maybe Libby should have questioned a little how come a guy like Charlie who's got a busy job and social life suddenly has time for a new friend. She doesn't wonder about this though, perhaps because she's a very busy person herself and has time for a new friend. She just keeps telling herself she's not his type.
I read an ARC through Netgalley.
Charlie comes into Libby's life as a favour to his brother: to help the friend of a girl he fancies with her accounts. Libby likes Charlie immediately, but soon decides she's not his type and that she'd rather have him as a friend than not in her life at all. Friends they become.
Actually, maybe Libby should have questioned a little how come a guy like Charlie who's got a busy job and social life suddenly has time for a new friend. She doesn't wonder about this though, perhaps because she's a very busy person herself and has time for a new friend. She just keeps telling herself she's not his type.
I read an ARC through Netgalley.
Okay chick-lit, not very special.
The story follows the Chick-lit template. Just the passion of the main character is different: making beer. But how different is that really from the homely craft of baking?
Girl with okay life accepts proposal from okay boyfriend. Aside from her hobby there is not much exciting about her life or her future, but that's okay with Jen: she likes the predictable. Then there is the meet-cute with another guy. An attractive guy that stokes her passion about beer and kisses her.
Don't need to read it to know how it will continue. Read it because it's comfy, Hygge.
After reading a number of other reviews, I feel the need to come to Jen's defence. Jen suffers from her own branch of survivor's guilt. From early on in the book the signs are there: she feels guilty that she had to make the descision to amputate her sister's leg and she wants to make sure nothing bad ever happens to her sister again. Not because she's a selfish controlfreak, but because she loves her sister. Her aim is to make sure her sister is happy, not to make herself happy. That she smothers her sister in the process is a concequence and if Lydia is so self-asured, why did she not speak up about the smothering sooner, but rather delve into all kinds of extreme sports? (She didn't tell Jen about them, so obviously was not out to prove a point to Jen.)
I read a copy of this book through Netgalley.
The story follows the Chick-lit template. Just the passion of the main character is different: making beer. But how different is that really from the homely craft of baking?
Girl with okay life accepts proposal from okay boyfriend. Aside from her hobby there is not much exciting about her life or her future, but that's okay with Jen: she likes the predictable. Then there is the meet-cute with another guy. An attractive guy that stokes her passion about beer and kisses her.
Don't need to read it to know how it will continue. Read it because it's comfy, Hygge.
After reading a number of other reviews, I feel the need to come to Jen's defence. Jen suffers from her own branch of survivor's guilt. From early on in the book the signs are there: she feels guilty that she had to make the descision to amputate her sister's leg and she wants to make sure nothing bad ever happens to her sister again. Not because she's a selfish controlfreak, but because she loves her sister. Her aim is to make sure her sister is happy, not to make herself happy. That she smothers her sister in the process is a concequence and if Lydia is so self-asured, why did she not speak up about the smothering sooner, but rather delve into all kinds of extreme sports? (She didn't tell Jen about them, so obviously was not out to prove a point to Jen.)
I read a copy of this book through Netgalley.
Amusing story, not especially funny.
It's chick-lit and follows the patterns of chick-lit nicely. I didn't shout at the characters to just get over themselves and get together, but that's perhaps because the story takes place in a little over 24 hours, so there was very little time for the characters to mope around a lot.
The story is told in alternating chapters from Simon's and Lisa's point of view and that works very well. I don't think I could have stood the story if had been just the point of view of one of them.
I read an ARC through Netgalley.
It's chick-lit and follows the patterns of chick-lit nicely. I didn't shout at the characters to just get over themselves and get together, but that's perhaps because the story takes place in a little over 24 hours, so there was very little time for the characters to mope around a lot.
The story is told in alternating chapters from Simon's and Lisa's point of view and that works very well. I don't think I could have stood the story if had been just the point of view of one of them.
I read an ARC through Netgalley.
