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I don’t know why I wanted to read this book. This series has been dragging, but because it was the only book in the series, I thought I would be able to get through it. Thank God it was only 89 pages. I have a thing where I must finish the series. Just like the other books in this series, it has been a long struggle with no reward.  

This book is based on Mammy Walsh, who has been a key character throughout all the Walsh sisters' stories, she usually gives very unhelpful advice and is always talking about the latest gossip.  this is a re-introduction to the Walsh family and gives insight into the family from A to Z.  

If you haven’t read the previous books in the series in a while, then it is a great refresher and tells you exactly where all her children are following their books. That's about the only good point. Thid book could have been a refresher without the A to Z and be 40 pages of like “here is where we are”. 

I was getting bored. Once the first bit was over of this is the story of me and my husband, I was just bored. I didn’t see the point of this really. 

It was a quick read if that’s what you want and if you like the Walsh family, but I'm getting low-key annoyed of the Walsh family.  

I bought this book during one of the Stuff Your Kindle Days last year. I bought it because it sounded interesting, and the cover was cute. The blurb is longer and more detailed than the actual book.  

This book is based on the Rosebud girls, a group of girls who lived in Rosebud. They’ve had a dream since high school to own the Rosebud Lodge. The five of them promised that if it ever went up for sale, they’d buy it together. So, when real estate mogul Callie sees it for sale, she knows it’s time to pounce. Except all her friends seem to be holding back when they should be pushing forward. So, Callie decides it’s up to her to help them take the leap. There is Saffron and she is living her life, being the part owner of one of the hottest restaurants in San Francisco. But “living her life” means fourteen-hour days and having the workload of her partners heaped onto her while they sit back and accept all the awards. Saffron is beginning to realize that she isn’t spending any time with the people she loves. So, when Callie storms into Saffron’s kitchen telling her the lodge is up for sale, Saffron must re-evaluate. Is she really living her dream? Then there is Kenzie, and she is a high-powered CFO and has achieved every success she could have imagined. She is married to the man of her dreams, is working the job she’s always desired, and has a penthouse condo. But what happens when the man of her dreams drops the most earth-shattering news, Kenzie is second guessing everything. She's where she’s supposed to be, isn’t she? Then why when the going got tough did home, and the lodge call to her? Hazel is going through a divorce and its very public divorce. It's what happens when you marry to one of the biggest country stars of the decade and it would become news. However, Hazel isn’t too broken up about the end of her marriage, it was a long time coming, she is concerned about her two teenaged boys who love her and idolize their father. Now that she has full custody of her boys, she moves to the place that will heal them all, Rosebud. But when healing doesn’t come fast enough for either of her children, Hazel isn’t sure what to do, especially when her oldest, Chase, decides that everything wrong in his life is Hazel’s fault. The last of the Rosebud girls is Laurel and she has a secret. One she can’t even tell her friends. So even as the four of them decide that they need to buy their lodge, Laurel can’t. Not without revealing what is about to blow not only her marriage and her life, but maybe the entire town of Rosebud apart. And she can’t do that. Meet the Rosebud Girls as they join back together to fulfil their childhood dreams. 

I liked the storyline and the concept of like a pact and the friends coming back for their town. I loved the friendship between the girls and how they would still defend each other no matter what they are going through and the kids calling the girls Auntie, it reminds me of my mates and their children. The message throughout this story is the importance of good friends and sticking to your promises but also making compromises based on a friend's situations. I feel like this book just puts the feelers out for the series – the girls, the families and the town are introduced. Saffron is my favourite; I wanted to hug her and wanted her to kick those partners asses. 

I just wanted more. I wanted a few chapters of how they became friends, who introduced who, I wanted more of the town. Like a few chapters of them in school and why they loved Lodge so much, besides the promise of buying it if it was for sale, we don’t know why they wanted it so much. I wanted to know what was so special about Rosebud. I wanted to see them all making the pact, like Kenzie always wanted to be a mother, Saffron always wanted to be a chef, I would have loved that conversation to actual happen, even if it was a few chapters of them leaving school and why are they doing what they are doing. I felt like it was a bit rushed, I would have LOVED to see Hazel on that date and Dylan apologising to Sue and Sue telling the girls they can have the Lodge, it was like Chapter 11, they don’t know how they are getting the lodge, Chapter 12, Saffron figures out a way to maybe get the Lodge, Chapter 13, they are stood in front of the Lodge with the keys. You know, I was just hoping and rooting for more. 

If you want an easy and short read (160 pages) on Kindle Unlimited, then this book would be you and hopefully the next book in the series will have more depth.  

I wanted to read this book because I loved and adored the first book in this series and when I saw he was making this book in the series, I was so excited what it was going to be about. I was a little nervous with it being a prequel but was so happy it still included Viv.  

This book is based on Viv the orc barbarian, who we met in Legends & Lattes and her career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam’s Raven isn’t going as planned. She has been wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer and she is packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk, the town is so far from the action that she worries she’ll never be able to return to it. What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn’t possibly imagine. Still, adventure isn’t all that far away. A suspicious traveller, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful that Viv could have ever expected.  

This storyline was so full of action but was still very relaxing at the same time. I loved jumping back in this world and still wanted to spend the whole book giving Viv a hug. I loved the themes that are in this book – the found family, the LBGT representation and the females in this book kicking ass and taking names. I loved the side characters; they were all built and had their own characters developments as well as Viv. Just like the previous book in this series, I liked that the fantasy was basic and would recommend this book to anyone who doesn’t know if they like fantasy or don’t want the complicated world-building. Even though it was an adventurous book, I loved the bookish vibes with the bookstore still being the focus of this book, but that there was also a serious storyline, and you wanted them to success and defeat the villain.  

I did miss the cozy, autumn vibes that we got from Legends & Lattes. The pacing of this book did lag a bit in the middle, I was finding myself struggling to push through to the end, but then the action started, and it picked up towards the end.  

I would love for Travis to write another book in this universe and with these characters. But if he writes anything else, I will probably read it as well.  

This was the book club’s pick of the month for August. This has been on my TBR for a while, and I always walk past it in bookshops and just never caught my eye enough to start it. I’m really glad I started this book, even if it did mess with my head a little bit.  

This book is based on Scarlett, and she has never left the tiny isle of Trisda, pining from afar for the wonder of Caraval, a once-a-year week-long performance where the audience participates in the show. Caraval is magic. Mystery. Adventure. And for Scarlett and her younger sister Tella it represents freedom and an escape from their ruthless, abusive father. When the sisters’ long-awaited invitations to Caraval finally arrive, it seems their dreams have come true. But no sooner have they arrived that Tella vanishes and is kidnapped by the show’s mastermind organizer, Legend. Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But nonetheless she quickly becomes enmeshed in a dangerous game of love, magic and heartbreak. And real or not, she must find Tella before the game is over, and her sister disappears forever.  

I liked the storyline; it reminded me a lot of Alice in Wonderland meets Willy Wonka. The way that this book kept twisting and turning. It was magical and the game had me stressed. I didn’t want to trust anyone – Dante, Julian, no one. It had me on EDGE. I wanted to hug Scarlett throughout the whole book, she was going through it and all she wanted to do was enjoy the games and then she was more worried about her sister that she couldn’t enjoy it. Also, the way that she stood up for her father was so brave and I was screaming and dancing for her at that point and I'm glad that her and Tella got out and are safe. Julian took a while to grow on me, mainly because I didn’t trust anyone from the games and thought he was going to betray Scarlett which he kind of did but for good reasons, so I'll forgive him.  

Is it bad that I was more intrigued on who was Legend rather than if Tella was going to be saved? Like I understand Tella’s behaviour because her father is a jackass, but she still needs to warm up to me because her character was annoying me throughout the book especially with the reveal at the end and how she had a plan the whole time but couldn’t trust her sister? Like Scarlett was getting married to save you and you were plotting behind her back? I feel like Tella needed to grovel for forgiveness more for what she put Scarlett through, the first thing she was focusing on after all that was going to the party and bringing Scarlett, like girl. Scarlett might want to sleep, or you know take a breather not go to a party. I am aware this is a young adult book, but their father got off WAY too easy for my liking. I wanted him punished or even killed for what he did, and I hope he doesn’t get a redemption arc because he doesn’t deserve it. If I see that man again in this series, I'll cry.  

The ending left more questions than answers and I have a feeling Tella is going to become a problem rather supporting her sister with whatever they do next.  

I wanted to read this book because I love Adam Kay’s style of writing and how brutal he can be. I was wondering how this book was going to go with it being that it was Adam’s journey after leaving the NHS. I loved Adam and just wanted to give him a hug (not like his stalker)  

Adam has returned to writing and this time will have many stories that will have you in stitches. This book reflects on what’s happened since hanging up his scrubs and examines a life inextricably bound up with medicine. Battered and bruised from his time on the NHS frontline, Adam looks back, moves forward and opens some old wounds. All the flashback stories have his patients name as characters from the MCU which makes it 10x funnier.  

With this book, Adam jokes about his journey with writing his first book and the issues of trying to find the happy spot between being an author and a retired doctor. I wanted to hug Adam so much with the issues he spoke about – his stalker, his sexual assault, his talk with his partner about weddings and children. He talked so honestly about these things that it just seemed normal. When his stalker wasn’t normal and him casually dropping the fact that he had PTSD about the fact that he has been sexually assaulted. However, even though he was talking about this dark subject, he was using British and witty humour which I enjoyed but still wanted to hug Adam.  

Just like all of Adam’s previous work, I wanted this book to be longer. I still wanted to hug Adam and James. I cannot wait to read whatever Adam writes next, right now I would read his shopping list or his to-do list.  

I read this because I enjoyed the Twisted series and liked the introduction of Davenports in King of Wrath. I was intrigued with how Ana was going to do this story with a broken love and a divorce, but besides the couple already being together at the start of the book, nothing was different. It was all copy and paste again.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Dominic Davenport and he is powerful, brilliant and ambitious. He has clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street. He has everything – a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, and more money than he could spend in a lifetime. But no matter how much he accumulates, he’s never satisfied. In his endless quest for more, he drives away the only person who saw him as enough. It isn’t until she's gone that he realizes there may be more to life than riches and glory, but by then, it may be too late. The second point of view is Alessandra Davenport, and she is kind, intelligent, thoughtful and has played the role of a trophy wife for years. She has stood by her husband while he has built an empire, but now that they’ve reached the top, she realises he’s no longer than man she fell in love with. When it becomes clear that she will always come second to his work, she finally takes charge of her life and puts herself first – even if it means leaving the only man she’s ever loved. But what she didn’t count on was his refusal to let her go or for him to fight for their marriage, no matter what it takes.  

I enjoyed the characters in the book, and I love that they introduce the next book with Sloane and Xavier, and you can see the tension building between themselves. I liked the friendship groups that are forming with the ladies and the men like with the twisted series. I loved the ladies supporting each other and you can see the fact that they care about each other especially with them trying not to tell the men their secrets, but they end up doing it and then the men finding out. I liked that went Dante went AWOL again, Isabella, Sloane and Vivian turned to the men and was like where the hell is he?  

The issues that are arising is that this story felt very generic and bland and predictable. I just wanted something to different to be done and to stop the petty third-act breakup and the miscommunication, it’s not needed. These men run businesses and deal with the mafia, yet they cannot communication with their “love of their lives”. These stories are starting to blend together, and nothing is separating the characters and it’s just getting a bit meh. This story just reminded me of Twisted Love because just like Twisted Love, he gets in major trouble, tries to grovel for his wife, screws up again, but it wasn’t his fault, finds something to get her to forgive him, and the bad guy is gone but not gone. I felt like Roman came into the book too late, and was gone too quickly without an actual ending? Is he dead? Is he safe? Where the hell is he?  

The only different with this book is that Christian Harper didn’t fix the main issue in this book, he just updated his security system at the end. I fear how the next book is going but we shall see.  

I wanted to read this book because I’ve read a couple of Rupi’s books, and I loved each of them individually. The author has a way of getting in your brain and just mixing up your thoughts like it’s a mixing bowl.  

This collection of poetry is about embraces growth and she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present and the potential of the self. Home Body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself which reminds readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family and embracing change. This book is beautifully illustrated by the author with themes of nature and nurture, light and dark. 

I loved everything about this book. Some poems made me smile, some poems made me stop and think, some poems made me feel seen and some poems made me want to cry. These poems are a mixture of brutal truth and compassion. The illustrations are gorgeous and add so much more to these poems. These poems cover a lot of topics that should be discussed more – child abuse, rape, genocide and feminism. This book was inspiring and took you on a journey of growth and I related to parts of this book and wanted to hug the author for the words she wrote on the pages. 

Rupi has a beautiful way to express her thoughts and feelings. I didn’t have anything to hate about this book, it was amazing, and I will cherish this book and will go back to it often.  

I’m not going to lie; I got this book because it was the last Colleen Hoover book on my TBR. Everyone raves about this on Booktok and I've learnt not to trust a lot of Booktok’s predictions especially when it comes to Colleen Hoover, and I think this is the end of me reading Colleen’s work.  

When Tate Collins and when she finds airline pilot Miles Archer passed out in front of her apartment door, it is not love at first sight. In fact, they wouldn’t even consider themselves friends. But what they do have is an undeniable mutual attraction. He doesn’t want love, and she doesn’t have time for a relationship, but their chemistry cannot be ignored. Once their desires are out in the open, they realise they have the perfect set-up, if Tate can stick to two rules – never ask about the past and don’t expect a future. Tate convinces herself she’s okay with it, but soon realises that it’s harder than she thought. Will she be able to say no to her sexy pilot when he lives just next door?  

Cap, Corbin and Ian saved this book from being two stars. They are the only ones that acted like actual adults. Like why are you freaking out over someone you haven’t spent time expect for when you are having sex with each other? Corbin had every right to punch the shit out of Miles for being a scumbag, he stopped one of Corbin’s friends hitting on her and then was being a hypocritic. Cap was the comedy relief in this book and I'm so glad he wasn’t just some wise old man, and he knew Miles. 

I don’t understand why there has to be something “different” with Colleen’s books, can we not just get a normal dual POV. The weird poetic, half-ass, chapters from Miles weren’t needed. The only chapter I liked from Miles was the last one where it was more than 3 pages long and wasn’t a poem. I hate the insta-love trope, and this is what Tate and Miles had. That and just sex for 300 pages. They literally went out on a date when they were got together, and he proposed. Like no wonder everyone lost their shit and was questioning everything. Miles is also a massive red-flag and the fact that young girls are reading this and thinking it’s normal and romantic, like no it’s disgusting and I get he is grieving and that child-loss is a massive thing, but if you can’t form a bond because you are terrified to lose them, don’t lead them on and then push them away. Girls aren’t yo-yos. I didn’t like the back and forth between six years ago and now, it was giving me a headache. I just wanted to know why Miles was a complete prat.  

This is one of those books where if there was a sequel, they would be co-parenting their child because they would be divorced within a year.  

I wanted to read this book because Lana’s books have been all over the book community. I got this book and The Nanny in the 3 for £6 deal at the Works and I decided to jump right in. This book was sweet and sexy and adorable.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Mackenzie and she hasn’t had a successful date in months. She's only a year out of residency, and her grandmother’s obsession with finding the perfect mate threatens to drive her insane, so it should be a small thing when she lies about meeting someone . . . until she blurts out the name of the last man she would ever date: Noah “The Big Bad Wolf of Denver General” Taylor. The second point of view is Noah, and he is an interventional cardiologist and all-round grump, and he has spent his entire life hiding what he is – an unmated alpha. But when an anonymous tip brings everything to light, he’s left with two choices: come clean to the board and risk his career or find himself a mate. So, when the chatty, overly friendly ER doctor asks him to be her fake boyfriend the same day he’s called to meet the board, it must be kismet, right? Mackenzie gets her grandmother off her back, and Noah gets the chance to prove he can continue to work without a real mate – it's a mutually beneficial business transaction. But when the fake-mate act turns to very real friends-with-benefits arrangement, lines start to blur, and they quickly realise love is a whole different kind of animal.  

I loved the fake relationship storyline, and the fake relationship storyline with doctors and wolves. Like if you’ve watched Grey’s Anatomy, you know how much sex there is within doctors, adding wolf hormones and Christ, this is what you get. I love that you could see them both trying to not get attached and failing completely. This book was very cheesy and adorable and very spicy. I loved the adorable moments with them in the hospital and trying to act completely normal, sniffing each other in a cupboard and then her passing out. It was a very easy read; you didn’t really need to think or pay attention. I think Noah is hilarious and how he was trying to prove that he is different and then messed up completely.  

The third act break up ruined this. I swear to God, I hate third act break ups. I would have liked more of a revenge against Dennis. As it was kind of wrapped up in one chapter, they get back together, they go to the board and then Dennis is hopefully sacked? I would have loved like public humiliation, the whole hospital to know what a piece of shit he is. I would have loved for Noah to grow some balls and tell Mackenzie what was said. Mackenzie did drive me nuts at times and I found myself skimming over the thoughts of hers because they were so repetitive of “I can’t fall for Noah, it’s just sex, but I love him, but he is leaving.”  

This was the second book of Lana’s that I've read, and it won’t be the last. Hopefully the third act breakups will stop, and I can enjoy them even more.  Also, I still don’t understand the whole knot thing with wolves' sex thing.  

I wanted to carry on with this series because I enjoyed the first book by Julie Murphy. I liked that even though it was a re-telling of a fairy tale, it didn’t feel like it. Unlike the first book in this series, I was struggling with the re-telling side and connecting with the series.  

This book is based on Isabelle, and she is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing after college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, still living at home with her parents, and one of the few Black employees at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, she is constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So, when she overhears her boss complaining about a high-profile author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, Isabelle sees an opportunity to prove her worth and finally get the recognition she deserves. All she has to do is go to Beau’s mansion in Santa Barbara and give him a quick pep talk or three. How hard could it be? But Izzy quickly finds out she is in over her head. Beau towers is not some celebrity lightweight writing a tell-all memoir. He is jaded and withdrawn and – it turns out – just as lost as Izzy. But despite his standoffishness, Izzy needs Beau to deliver, and with her encouragement, his story beings to spill onto the page. They soon discover they have more in common than either of them expected, and as their deadline nears, Izzy and Beau begin to realize there may be something there that wasn’t there before. 

I struggled so much with this book and I think it’s because we don’t find out why the rooms/floors were forbidden unlike in the original beauty and the beast, the west wing is forbidden because that’s where the rose is. In this book, we never actually get an answer as to why it’s forbidden, and it’s just brushed over. I know that Beau is supposed to be the beast and this big asshole, but he just rolled over way too quickly and became the loveable snowman way too early in this book for my liking. And again, Gavin being Gaston, and he wasn’t villainised enough, and he was defeated quite quickly, I wanted more from him and trying to knock down Isabelle. Also, these two main characters lacked chemistry, Beau was trying to have banter with Isabelle, and she took it the wrong way and a screaming match would start. For then, Beau having to do the apologising and blaming it on his past. 

I liked Priya, I wanted more of her. I wanted her to tell Isabelle to grow a pair and to meet Beau and to like help get them together. I liked the publishing aspect and how the business works, and it sort of sounded a bit non-fictional with the writing tips. I would have loved more of what happened after she had moved publishing houses. I loved the aspects that come from beauty and the beast – the library, the rose garden and the Wi-Fi password.  

This book fell below standards from the first book, but I will be carrying on with the series and I can’t wait to see the next book.