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Book Review- Shine Like Silver By Alicia Hunter Pace

Ava Grace Fairchild never expected to find herself on the back of a hockey player’s motorcycle. Until now, her life in Laurel Springs, Alabama, has been everything you’d expect for a Southern belle: old money, silver spoons and a perfectly planned future. But you can’t plan for the kind of public humiliation that has her running away from her well-ordered life to spend one perfect night with a stranger.

Russian enforcer Luka Zadorov is no fan of the South. Being traded to Alabama has meant swapping the glory of northern hockey for playing second fiddle to college football, but his plan to get traded back hits an interesting snag when he crosses paths with Ava Grace. Maybe the South has something to offer after all…

Together, Luka and Ava Grace are finally enjoying the present instead of worrying about the future. But when their no-strings fling suddenly develops the kind of strings you can’t ignore, it’s time for them both to confront what their hearts truly need.

Published Date: 23 August 2022

My Review

Ava have her life planned out with her long time boyfriend, Skip. Everyone is expecting him to proposed to her for many years and Ava is confident he will only to find out that he could not complete his proposal on birthday in front of everyone. It was a shock to her and all she want was to disappear. This is at this moment Luke , a hockey player, come to her rescue and they begin a romantic fling.

This story is all about miscommunication and life may not a ouplan no matter how meticulously we ready Love the main characters especially Ava who trying hard to think and do things hee way after what happened and both Ava and Luka is vulnerable. Overall, it is a sweet read to me.

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Book Review – The Billionaire’s Proposal By Meg Herga

First, Lucy Barr is fired unceremoniously. She called her company’s handsome Indian billionaire boss, Jay Belgavi, names that are too shocking for print. Then, reeling from a loss of her job, she finds out her cheating ex is going to be the best man at her sister’s wedding. And he’s bringing a date. So of course she has to one-up him and announce that she’s engaged.

With only a week to go before the wedding, the only eligible man she can take as a fake fiancé to the wedding is her ex-boss. Yes, Jay Belgavi, the brooding grump who looks like he just stepped off a private jet after making a GQ magazine cover photographer burst into tears.

Jay Belgavi is running from his painful past. The one thing that would help Jay leave his father’s company and put the past behind is a very specific real-estate deal. So Jay agrees to play Lucy’s adoring fiancé at her sister’s Hawaiian wedding. Because, unknown to Lucy, he needs her help to convince this real-estate client to tear down her apartment. In their battle of wills, the heat escalates and escalates some more.

What would Lucy rather lose? The wedding date, her home, or the frustrating man who makes her feel whole again?

Published Date : 16 August 2022

My Review

Lucy is looking for a fake fiancé as she need to attend her sis wedding which her ex fiancé will be the best man. Due some confusion she mistakenly fought with her CEO, Jay Belgavi and caused him to lose and important deal. Naturally, Jay fired her on the spot. Lucy is staying at an apartment block who belong to the company and Jay have the intention to sell the block for development purposes. Similar to Lucy, Jake need a fake girlfriend to get his sisters’ off his back and also convince his client that he is a reliable family man.

It is an enemies to lover romance which focus on finding love and trust again. As the story developed, we get to see the shift in their relationship and both main character’s discover that their hate was based on misunderstanding.

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Book Review – Light Through The Vines By Fiona Valpy

Gina’s London life lies in tatters: she has lost her father, her steady job as a wine buyer and her suave but unfaithful boyfriend. When she also suffers the loss of her beloved aunt, a silver lining dawns in the shape of an unexpected legacy: Aunt Liz has left Gina her beautiful, if slightly ramshackle, house in the heart of Bordeaux wine country. With nothing left to lose, Gina takes a chance on a fresh start.

Throwing herself into her new life in the beautiful French countryside, Gina discovers the warmth of a close-knit—sometimes too close-knit—rural community and the exhausting exhilaration of the grape harvest under the late-summer sun. But just as she is beginning to feel like she belongs in her crumbling but charming home, she uncovers a long-hidden secret that makes her question the one person she used to trust the most. While she’s worrying that this is a sign to pack her bags and run, a storm blows a hole in the roof, and Gina finds herself with nowhere else to turn except her neighbour’s capable son for help.

Before long Gina finds herself admiring handsome Cédric for more than just his stonemasonry skills…But everyone she’s ever held dear has left her or betrayed her. And as the grapes ripen on the vine, can Gina find her way to forgiveness, and could it finally be time for her to open her heart to love again?

Published Date: 1 September 2022

My Review

Gina lost her father and job and at the same time she found out her boyfriend has been cheating on her. To help her to move on from all these depressing moment, she decided to move into the house that she inherited from her aunt in Bordeaux France. Soon, she embracing on village life and learning on to master wine making course. And just as she begin to feel at home, she discover a long hidden secret that make her question her belief. It also have a family mystery to solve and a local man who have his fair share of heartache too.

It is a delightful read for me full of love, laughter and friendship.

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Book Review – The Wedding Quilt By Jodi Thomas, Lori Wilde & Patience Griffin

THE SECRET WISH * Jodi Thomas
The little town of While-a-Way, Texas, may as well be named Last Chance as far as Avery Cleveland is concerned. Running her late great-grandmother’s quilt shop is the only way to build back her life after losing her dancing career. But local sheriff Daniel Solis is stunned by Avery’s beauty and spirit—and hopes to show her how to stitch brand-new dreams together . . .

WISH UPON A WEDDING * Lori Wilde
Ellie Winter’s sister is holding a quilting bee as her bachelorette party, creating a memory quilt for their grandmother. If only the event weren’t happening at the ranch where Ellie spent childhood summers, now owned by the man she can’t forget. Four days surely isn’t enough time to fall in love again . . . but what about four long, hot, summer nights?

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A QUILT * Patience Griffin
Paige Holiday’s last visit to the International Quilt Festival in Houston ended in heartbreak. It seems like all the women in her family are unlucky in love. So at this year’s festival, Paige is focused solely on business, until a gorgeous cowboy crosses her path, ready to turn her life—and her luck—around

Published Date : 30 August 2022

My Review

This is a trilogy stories from 3 authors.

The Secret Wish is a story about 2nd chances. Avery went back to her aunt’s quilt shop after given up her career as a world class ballerina. Unlike the other 2 stories, there is also a bit of mystery in the story.

Wish Upon A Wedding tell the story for second chance for love where Ellie return to a grief camp and met her first and only love. Dalton have never stopped loving Ellie and he did the only thing that he feel right for her. She is back in town now. Are they able to reconnect and rediscover their love?

When You Wish Upon A Quilt tell the story of Paige travelling around the world teaching quilting. She have a dream to design her own quilt but after her ex boyfriend steal her design, she kept this dream to herself until she met Holt at the quilting event. Paige have trouble in trusting people after the betrayal and Holt learnt the hard way that long distance relationship doesn’t work for him.

Overall these three stories are beautifully written, with love at first sight, 2nd chance in love and trust issue as a theme.

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Book Review – Quicksand By Janet Dailey

Tess Champion knows better than to trust Brock Tolman, the rancher who once swindled her late father in a land deal. But with the Alamo Canyon Ranch in foreclosure, Tess is forced to accept Brock’s offer of a partnership. Brock claims he only wants to breed the Champion bloodline into his own herd. In exchange, he offers Tess one of his own young bulls. Soon enough, Quicksand is the rising star of the rodeo circuit, which only proves Tess is better at picking bulls than she is men. Because she’s way too tempted to surrender to her attraction to Brock, despite her certainty he’s only out to steal her family ranch . . .

It’s not until the tycoon’s private plane crashes in the wilderness, stranding him with Tess, that the truth of their relationship will come out. The Champion family’s future is on the line, but it’s Tess’s heart that will take the hit if she’s fallen for the wrong man . . .

Published Date: 30 August 2022

My Review

Tess is being very conscious of Brock and his intention to help her when he is a nemesis of her family. Everyone including of herself know that he have the intention to expand his holding of asset. She could not understand why would he want to help her to the extend of offering her a choice of bull from his farm. Everyone warned her taking the impulsive Quicksand with its bad attitude but Tess saw something in him. There was attraction between Tess and Brock but she aware that she should not have give in as she can’t trust him. There are strange things happening between them, Brock begin to suspect it has something to do with Tess.

It is a suspense romance filled with dangerous mystery evolved around Tess and Brock. And as the layers peeled away, I become engrossed in the story and there was a twist to the story in the end. I love Brock’s story and both Tess and Brock is a strong character. Love reading how their relationship developed. Overall, it is a quick read for me and I enjoyed the drama and romance between Tess and Brock.

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Book Review – Christmas Miracles At Hedgehog Hollow By Jessica Redland

It’s the countdown to Christmas at Hedgehog Hollow Wildlife Rescue Centre, and everyone is gearing up for a festive season to remember…
It should be the most wonderful time of the year for Samantha and Josh as they prepare for the arrival of their first baby. But life at Hedgehog Hollow rarely goes to plan and the pair are faced with adversaries, old and new, and unexpected challenges to overcome.

Fizz’s job at the heart of the rescue centre is a dream come true but her personal life is more like a nightmare. With her love life a disaster and her past about to dramatically catch up with her, she needs the love and support of her Hedgehog Hollow family more than ever

Published Date: 6 September 2022

My Review

Samantha is due to have her first baby with Josh is busy preparing for Christmas and a charity fair. Their center has also expanded to accept other animals.

Fizz, one of the stalwarts at the Hedgehog rescue center is a bubbly character. But she carried a secret for so many years until the person that cause so much grief is returning home. Fizz’s turmoil come to surface and the nightmares that she is having as she builds up her confidant to tell her parent is too great for her. Fizz also having a complicated relationship with Yasmin and she is not sure of her relationship anymore.

This is the last book of the series and indeed it ended with a bang! It had love, laughter and tears with full drama, emotion and more animals in the center. It is a sweet yet sad for me to review this final book as I became emotional attached to the characters and will definitely miss them and the lovely hedgehogs.

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Book Review – Tracking You By Kelly Moran

Love isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s silent.

Gabby Cosette has always been dubbed the good girl of quaint Redwood Ridge, Oregon, and being permanently put in the friend zone has left her dating life stagnant. With no prospects in sight, she clings to her friends and resolves to not let loneliness drag her under. So when the town Battleaxes set their matchmaking sights on her, she figures it can’t hurt. Yet the guy they think is perfect for her just happens to be not only her boss at the veterinarian clinic, but her best friend. Sure, Flynn O’Grady is attractive and the nicest guy around, but going there with him would topple both of their carefully constructed worlds and there would be no going back. Even if he is starting to make her girly parts zing.

Having been born deaf, Flynn has already felt like an outsider most of his life. Aside from his brothers, Gabby is about the only person who’s gone out of her way to treat him as more than a handicap. Which is exactly why he’s banked his secret attraction for his sweet, beautiful vet tech. Except his meddling family is trying to play Cupid and ruin the best thing to ever happen to him. Without Gabby, his work as a veterinarian, never mind his personal life, wouldn’t flow. Determined to ignore the antics, he’s secure in the knowledge she’s not interested in him romantically. But then a kiss changes everything . . . and he’s wondering if taking the ultimate shot at love might be worth the risk.

Published Date: 23 September 2021

My Review

Gabby and Flynn have know each since their childhood. Flynn is deaf and Gabby being a good friend, learnt sign language so that she would to talk him. Not only that, she become his ear, signing whenever people are talking to him. Gabby has no luck in love while Flynn harboured a crush on her, he couldn’t dare to start something as he afraid it will end their friendship. When the town’s Battleaxes set their matchmaking sight on them, it may turn out something positive instead.

It is a friend to lover story with disability issues between them. It take a strong women to look beyond a disability to find her Mr Right. Love the main characters very much and the superb way the author wrote a realistic writing of Flynn’s deafness and his frustration and emotion that play out in his life.

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Book Review – Puppy Love By Kelly Moran

This playboy has met his match, and she’s organized…

After a passionless marriage under the scrutiny of high society, Avery Stowe is taking back her life. All she wants is a little privacy and a quiet place to raise her autistic daughter, Hailey. Redwood Ridge, Oregon, seems to offer all the right ingredients.Except for the problem of the local sexy veterinarian. The last thing she needs in her life is to fall for his irresistible allure, even if he is a nice guy who keeps doing her favors. But the well-meaning patrons of her new hometown have other ideas, and it appears playing Cupid is one of them.

Cade O’Grady has never met a woman he couldn’t handle, but when Avery Stowe walks into his office late one night cradling an injured puppy, he’s struck stupid. Which might explain her total lack of interest in him. But now that she’s working for his family’s clinic, he doesn’t have to lust from a distance.He might just have a chance at convincing Avery–and her too-guarded heart–that falling for the right man isn’t a mistake . . .

Published Date : 21 September 2021

My Review

Avery is back to her mum’s town together with Hailey, her autistic daughter after a nasty divorce from her husband. All she want is to start a fresh. Fate seem to be playing with her when her encounter with a dog led her to the town’s sexy veterinarian Cade. It was not a good first encounter and Cade somehow misjudge Avery. He knew it and he want to make it up to her but it is not going to be an easy one as Avery have built a wall in her heart in order to protect herself and Hailey.

I love how the author have bring in the disability into the story and wrote the characters seem so real with in-depth and real. I also love the interaction between Cade and Hayley and how strong Avery are in handle Hailey. Overall, it is an emotional read for me.

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Book Review – Let It Snow By Beth Noran

After the end of a long-term relationship, local weather girl Bea Armstrong has been avoiding her family, and their inevitable ‘I-told-you-sos.’ But with Christmas fast approaching, she is finally on her way home to Charis House, the school in Sherwood Forest that her mum and dad run in their old family home. And to top it all off, the insufferable Henry Fairfax – who her parents have always wanted her to marry – has also been invited.

Relief comes in the shape of a last minute interview for her dream job. There are just a few minor problems… The interview is in Scotland, Bea has no car, and the snow is falling already. The only solution is for Henry to drive her – could this Christmas get any worse…

But during an unforgettable two day interview, a stay in a log cabin and a nightmare journey through the snow, Henry turns out to be nothing like she thought. And when Bea’s first love and recent ex shows up, Bea has a difficult choice to make…

Published Date : 30 August 2022

My Review

Bea is back at home and as it was revealed that this may be the last time hee family is going to celebrate Christmas at the family home, Brea discover that she have missed out a lot what went wrong with her family. Bea didn’t expect to meet Henry, who she known all her life and there was expectation for her to be married to him despite what Bea actually feels about him. When there is an opportunity to attend a wacky interview in Scotland, Bea accepted Henry’s offer to send her there. It was then that Bea discover Henry’s true self is.

This book gave me a romantic feel and I love to be part of Armstrong family despite Abe’s has been complaining about them. I can feel that she genuinely love them.

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Book Review – Coming Home To Puddleduck Farm By Della Galton

When your heart’s broken, all roads lead home…
London City Vet, Phoebe Dashwood, finds her partner Hugh and their boss in a passionate clinch beneath the mistletoe at their works Christmas party.

Heartbroken, she bolts to the New Forest, her childhood home to regroup and soul search.

Being home gives Phoebe the chance to reconnect with friends and family and especially with her fiercely independent gran, widower Maggie Crowther, owner of Puddleduck Farm, and makeshift animal shelter New Forest Neddies.
Deciding not to return to London, Phoebe hunts for work locally, hoping she can also help Maggie, who’s clearly swamped and not coping. But will Maggie accept Phoebe’s help?

Her quest is hampered by stubborn grandmothers, meddling mums, an attractive childhood friend, a real-life Lord, a remorseful ex, and a best friend who’s determined to play matchmaker.

Can Phoebe find happiness professionally and personally in the place she calls home, surrounded by those she loves or does fate have other plans for Phoebe?

Published Date: 29 August 2022

My Review

Phoebe move back home in the New Forest after she breakup with her boyfriend leaving behind her job as a vet. Maggie is Phoebe’a grandmother, is a feisty and tough lady who loves her animal . With Phoebe back home, she trying to find ways to help her grandmother but Maggie is just too stubborn she need help to run her farm. Phoebe also reconnect with Sam, her childhood friend and who always been around, caring and supportive.

It is a sweet story with fierce and independent female character. As the story develops, the author dabble some potential love interest along the way. The story have a wonderful setting with a smooth and engaging storyline.

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