sarahsbookstack's Reviews (2.55k)

I love Camden and Naomi both together and in their individual lives and what they each are going through. I love that they both come as a "package" deal...Naomi with her young, adorable son Liam (aka the guy from Izzy and Her Off-Limits Love) and Camden with his "hockey dad" Mike who has early onset dementia. 

I love that these 2 get to try again in Harvest Hollow after a sad end in Oakley Island. The Dream Team is hilarious as always in person and in their group chat. I like that Parker is so upset with the term WAG that she comes up with her own for the girls chat. I love the addition of Panda. I loved that I cried in the epilogue for so many things in it. My favorite scene was Naomi's request of the Appies in Camden's hotel room after a game 🥹. Just a beautiful end to this beloved hockey team series! 

I've never read Persuasion so I won't compare it, but this was a fun one all the same. 

Annie breaks up with her boyfriend and in turn hurts her friendship with her best friend Viv.  She hates her job so she quits without a plan. Then she makes her own plan and really goes for it! She gets a job that she doesn't know much about but she works hard and has a great friend Sofia there to help her. If only she wasn't working for the one whose heart she broke, Kylan.

Annie was an interesting character. She was so extroverted but that sometimes led to a "no filter" persona. I adored her roommates, they were amazing guys they just were always there for her no matter what. Her mother though- oof, toxic woman. 

Ok, hot hockey dad Tyler who is so, so attentive and loving and has a great relationship with his ex and he's perfect. His kids, Parker and Luna, are just the most easy going, precious littles.

As Sabrina weaves seamlessly into their lives, it's a better fit than the one she would have had with her cheating ex who was just with her for glory (💲💲) at her father's work. I LOVE how she gets out of her wedding to Chad (ugh that name! I don't like it), it's hilarious. But the way her parents and Chad gaslight her is super terrible! 

I love that Sabrina fosters kittens, her best friend Trevyn is hilarious,she can befriend people easily and how devoted she is to nannying even when it's a bit tough at first with Parker. I love the trust she has in Tyler.  I love their "lessons" together. 

Don't think about the science part so you can really enjoy this novel 😉

This was a fascinating mystery. A company can send you back to the past, for an hour, but you don't know where you'll go. You do know that the future will not be changed in any way too. 

Four strangers get sent to the same very tough day. Elizabeth lost her son, Andy lost a new love, Logan who was paralyzed, and Brooke who caused an accident. They work together to understand why they were sent to this point again and they come to find peace and a way to move forward. This is a book that just keeps you turning pages and feeling all the feelings with these people. 

I loved this unique take on Prohibition where not only booze is illegal but so is magic. There are girls who dance with magic, like fire and water conjuring, and have to hide their magic in underground speakeasies. 

Nora is a fire dancer just like her mother was. She suffers from panic attacks and they come from being in the spotlight. So Miles, who works at his father's theater, tried to help her hone her skill while keeping the panic attacks at bay.

Nora was strong despite all that befell her mother. I felt she made herself even stronger in the friendships with the other dancers. When things get dangerous, they find a way to take back their power from the monsters and men that want to take them down. 

Another winner and I love that it's very reminiscent of the You've Got Mail plotline. 
I felt bad that their landlord thought that the best way for him to find a single manager when they merged spaces to be a battle and how he would manipulate these two MCs. 

I loved that this is kind of flipped and the guy, Ryan, runs the romance bookstore.  His employees are so fun and diverse and I loved their "fishbowl" tradition for team meetings. 

While Josie's run store doesn't seem to be my speed, I do admire her work ethic and how she handles the business side of it all. I love her fierce dedication to get sister Georgia, picking up their mother's slack. I have hope that their mother can change for the better 🙏

There are many fun scenes and some 🔥 scenes like that one time in the bookstore 😉 you'll just have to read and see. The online personalities of each MC, I get. We all feel we can be maybe more authentic online? At least for me. 

The title says it all, I don't think Jill was ever truly happy! I honestly don't know what to say about this book without giving things away. I do want to say that Jill is the most unhinged person I've come across in a book in a while. 

I feel that Jack was a little bit of a coward when it came to Jill. He still should not have been doing what he does while in his relationship. I did feel bad for him throughout at times so. The ending was kind of lackluster for me though so that's a bummer. 

There were a couple minor things that bugged me about the Utah parts (we can't dance here?... we aren't in Footloose for goodness sake!) and I doubt you could stop your car in between Zion and Bryce Canyon and just get out and walk the road. 

I was ready to give this a solid 3 stars and then BAM.... the twist.! That bumped it up for me. 

I feel that it is really slow.... until you get to the point of Cady's accident. What really happened and why can't she remember? It's basically rich people on their own little island where all they know are each other for the summer. 

It's interesting what the brain will do in times of trauma. When I got the full story of what happened.... wow. When I say my jaw dropped, it DROPPED!

While I liked this in a lot of ways, I didn't like the whiplash I got from all the "before" parts. It would jump from 3 days before to 2 years before and then 1 day after and can to 3 days before..... just be cohesive. And it took SO LONG in those "befores" to get the real story of what happened as far as Mandy could remember. 

I liked that we got a little true crime with Natalie but the way she goes about it is very unconventional. she should have listened more to Mandy asking her to not dredge it back up. 

This was a beautiful next gen story of the Duprees. It was funny in all the right places, emotional in all the right places, and heart wrenching in the right places. 

Poor Charlie! She goes through some major trauma in a short time. When you find out what happened.... oh how my heart ached!  But Cash..... he was THERE after it, always. He is definitely a man who was raised right! He would not let Charlie drown in self doubt. He did everything possible to get her to see her worth, with the help of the family of course. They don't leave anyone behind. 

Of course, I love all the music in this story that both Cash and Charlie produce/sing together. 

This was so beautiful and I can't wait for the rest of the series.