en-US Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:03:09 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 125702553
Sloane never imagined she’d get pregnant at sixteen. Or that a decade later she’d escape from California with her daughter, Callie, to start over in the Scottish Highlands. Hidden and safe from Callie’s dangerous father, Sloane is satisfied with their new lives. Her daughter is happy. Sloane has a stable job, a quaint cottage, a passion for baking that might just be turning into a business, and a huge crush on brooding security guard Walker Ironside. Unfortunately, the grumpy Scot seems immune to Sloane’s charm, but she can’t help but try to seduce him with cupcakes and baked treats whenever the opportunity arises.

However, when someone arrives in Ardnoch intent on destroying Sloane’s life, Walker is the first to step forward to protect her and Callie. Even if it means giving into temptation and awakening his own demons. Because in doing so, Walker faces failing not only to shield Sloane from her past, but to safeguard her against his own.]]> 382 Samantha Young 1915243084 Nic 0 to-read 3.76 2023
author: Samantha Young
name: Nic
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 217182446 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci’s newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved book shop owner and two teenagers scarred by the second world war, and the healing and hope they find in one another.

Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.

Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of people to have been evacuated to the countryside via “Operation Pied Piper,� Molly has been away from her parents—from her home—for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she’d hoped for as she’s confronted by a devastating reality: both her parents are gone.

Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his book shop, The Book Keep, where A book a day keeps the bombs away. Mourning the recent loss of his wife, Ignatius forms a kinship with both children, and in each other—over the course of the greatest armed conflict the world had ever seen—they rediscover the spirit of family each has lost.

But Charlie’s escapades in the city have not gone unnoticed, and someone’s been following Molly since she returned to London. And Ignatius is still reeling from a secret Imogen long kept from him while she was alive—something so shocking it resulted in her death, and his life being turned upside down.

As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that while the perils of war rage on, their coming together and trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive.]]> 435 David Baldacci 1538742055 Nic 0 to-read 4.07 2025
author: David Baldacci
name: Nic
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 210864316 560 Homer 022660442X Nic 0 to-read 4.28 -800
author: Homer
name: Nic
average rating: 4.28
book published: -800
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 217388104 After decades of silence, the last surviving World War II British spy reveals the real, untold story of her time as a secret agent in the deadly world of Nazi France.

From a unique and singular voice comes the incredible true story of the last surviving undercover British female operative in WW2. Pippa Latour parachuted into occupied France in 1944 to conduct sabotage and subversion behind enemy lines. Selling soap to German soldiers and hiding codes on a piece of ribbon, she sent back crucial information about troop positions in the lead up to D-Day, and continued her work until Paris was liberated. From her childhood as an orphan in South Africa to her years as an undercover agent, Pippa's story is that of a woman determined to honor her principles and risk her life to fight against the greatest evil of the 20th century.

The Last Secret Agent is a posthumously published memoir, co-written with journalist Jude Dobson. Pippa was decorated highly for her actions, including being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire and receiving the Légion d’Honneur in France. For years, Pippa kept her involvement in the war effort secret from everyone, including her family, but for the first time, her story can now be told in full.]]> 304 Pippa Latour 1250384346 Nic 0 to-read 4.36 2024
author: Pippa Latour
name: Nic
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 217387838 The latest gripping serial killer thriller from the New York Times bestselling author Alex North.

Dan Garvie’s life has been haunted by the crime he witnessed as a child—narrowly escaping an encounter with a notorious serial killer. He has dedicated his life since to becoming a criminal profiler, eager to seek justice for innocent victims. So when his father passes away under suspicious circumstances, Dan revisits his small island community, determined to uncover the truth about his death. Is it possible that the monster he remembers from his childhood nightmares has returned after all these years?

With his signature shock and suspense, Alex North brings us The Man Made of Smoke. In turn emotional, introspective, and utterly terrifying, this is a story of fathers and sons, shadows and secrets, and the fight we all face to escape the trauma of the past.]]> 320 Alex North 1250757894 Nic 0 to-read 4.19 2025
author: Alex North
name: Nic
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 218155629 One of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family’s imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope.

“I only survived because of my mother's love.�

When German soldiers invaded Poland in September 1939, it began a six year journey for then-ten-year-old Renee Salt and her mother Sala. Until their liberation in 1945, Renee and Sala were imprisoned in ghettos and concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. The only light in the darkness and brutality for Renee was the unwavering grasp of her mother’s hand in hers–enduring, against all odds.

It was this unbreakable bond, along with a few miracles, that kept Renee alive. Sala’s staggering courage to defy the will of SS guards saved both her and her daughter from the gas chambers, and the pair survived the deadliest days in Auschwitz’s history.

After suffering the nightmarish conditions at Bergen-Belsen, Renee and her mother were liberated in April 1945–but Sala died soon after they were saved. To this day, Renee attributes her survival to the love and bravery of her beloved mother.

Do Not Cry When I Die is an incredibly moving and deeply crucial book that tells the shocking story of one of the oldest Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen survivors—and the mother’s love that saved her life.]]> 272 Renee Salt Nic 5 4.63 2024
author: Renee Salt
name: Nic
average rating: 4.63
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/19
date added: 2025/03/20
shelves:
review:
Powerful and moving. I couldn’t put it down.
]]> 222081655 Two nights with her ruined me for all other women, but I never got the chance to make her mine.

I’m the pinnacle of control. I protect the net, my team, and my daughter.
It’s my final season and I can’t afford any distractions.
Except our new assistant coach just walked in.
And I would know her face anywhere.
She’s the one I dream about.

That weekend, I was just a man—not the legend, the dad, the mentor.
I didn’t care that I was a decade older.
For the first time in my life, I was ready to risk everything if it meant having her.
Until I woke up to an empty bed and no note.
Three years of wishing I knew how to find her, now she’s my new boss.

I can be patient.
But for her—I want to break all the rules.]]> 408 Helena Hunting 1989185967 Nic 0 to-read 4.13 2025
author: Helena Hunting
name: Nic
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 212431588 “Armentrout works her magic with swoon-worthy guys and a twist you never see coming.� �#1 New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines

Each breath may be the last in the epic finale to the Dark Elements trilogy, from the author of the bestselling Blood and Ash series

Every choice has consequences—but Layla Shaw faces tougher choices than most. Light or darkness. Wickedly sexy demon prince Roth, or Zayne, the gorgeous, protective Warden she never thought could be hers. Hardest of all, Layla has to decide which side of herself to trust.

Layla has a new problem, too. A Lilin—the deadliest of demons—has been unleashed, wreaking havoc on those around her…including her best friend. To keep Sam from a fate much, much worse than death, Layla must strike a deal with the enemy while saving her city—and her race—from destruction.

Torn between two worlds and two different loves, Layla has no certainties, least of all survival, especially when an old bargain comes back to haunt them all. But sometimes, when secrets are everywhere and the truth seems unknowable, you have to listen to your heart, pick a side—and then fight like hell…]]> 368 Jennifer L. Armentrout 1335218734 Nic 0 to-read 3.94 2015
author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
name: Nic
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 22609310
For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is hiding a huge secret. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything Auburn loves most, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it—but can she do it?]]> 306 Colleen Hoover 1476791457 Nic 5
As always, Colleen Hoover’s writing leaves me speechless. This lady has an incredible talent for writing unforgettable stories and Confess was another example of that.

Right from the first few lines, I knew this book was going to find it’s way into my heart� and it did. Never predictable, except for the fact that I knew Ms. Hoover would suck me in and never let me forget Aubrey’s story! This is one of those stories that haunts my thoughts� and my heart.

Auburn Reed is such a beautiful character who has experience so much in her young life. All I wanted was for her to find the happiness she deserved. From the moment Owen Gentry entered Auburn’s life, I wanted to know how he fit into the picture ;-) His story is equally as emotional as Auburn’s.

Do you believe in fate? I do and after you read Confess you just might.

Confess was filled with brilliant characters, some I fell in love with and some I wished a slow and painful death ;-) The story is beautiful, and angsty and kept me wanting more. I laughed, and I cried, and I got angry. Had my heart broken, then mended. The end of this book blew my mind! It was so beautiful � the perfect ending � and I swear I cried the entire time I read it. I’m teary-eyed right now just thinking about it.

If Confess doesn’t get turned into a movie, I’m going to be ticked! Confess had everything I look for in a true romance. I promise this beautiful, haunting story is not to be missed!

*I received a complimentary copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review*]]> 4.14 2015
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Nic
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2015/01/22
date added: 2025/03/01
shelves:
review:
5+++++ Another absolutely beautiful emotional love story from Colleen Hoover. My heart still hasn't recovered.

As always, Colleen Hoover’s writing leaves me speechless. This lady has an incredible talent for writing unforgettable stories and Confess was another example of that.

Right from the first few lines, I knew this book was going to find it’s way into my heart� and it did. Never predictable, except for the fact that I knew Ms. Hoover would suck me in and never let me forget Aubrey’s story! This is one of those stories that haunts my thoughts� and my heart.

Auburn Reed is such a beautiful character who has experience so much in her young life. All I wanted was for her to find the happiness she deserved. From the moment Owen Gentry entered Auburn’s life, I wanted to know how he fit into the picture ;-) His story is equally as emotional as Auburn’s.

Do you believe in fate? I do and after you read Confess you just might.

Confess was filled with brilliant characters, some I fell in love with and some I wished a slow and painful death ;-) The story is beautiful, and angsty and kept me wanting more. I laughed, and I cried, and I got angry. Had my heart broken, then mended. The end of this book blew my mind! It was so beautiful � the perfect ending � and I swear I cried the entire time I read it. I’m teary-eyed right now just thinking about it.

If Confess doesn’t get turned into a movie, I’m going to be ticked! Confess had everything I look for in a true romance. I promise this beautiful, haunting story is not to be missed!

*I received a complimentary copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review*
]]> 209034827 From Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, and Chris Crabtree comes an epic and inspiring novel—based on true events—about love, heroism, and resilience during the darkest chapters of World War II.

Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of 1,800 starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.

Determined to use her math skills on the home front, Sarah is recruited to Washington, DC, into the covert field of code breaking. When Sarah intercepts a message about a Japanese convoy, the US Navy’s mission is sink the Arisan Maru and send it to the bottom of the South China Sea. Now, the lives of the two young lovers are about to inadvertently collide in one of the most shocking acts of World War II.

Anchored in an extraordinary true story and breathlessly recreated, Hold Strong is a one-of-a-kind novel that explores faith, courage, survival, and coming home against insurmountable odds.]]> 555 Robert Dugoni 1662516304 Nic 0 to-read 4.63 2025
author: Robert Dugoni
name: Nic
average rating: 4.63
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/28
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 16054217 The #1 New York Times bestselling series finale and sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night

Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present—facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.]]> 561 Deborah Harkness 0670025593 Nic 0 to-read 4.15 2014
author: Deborah Harkness
name: Nic
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 15196
A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.]]> 159 Art Spiegelman 0394541553 Nic 0 to-read 4.39 1986
author: Art Spiegelman
name: Nic
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1986
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 30267929
As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere.

An extraordinary, propulsive novel, We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive.]]> 403 Georgia Hunter 0399563083 Nic 0 to-read 4.39 2017
author: Georgia Hunter
name: Nic
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 217387729 The next riveting summer suspense by the author of THE BLOCK PARTY and ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY, Jamie Day.

WILL THIS BE THE BEST WEEK OF THEIR LIVES... OR THE LAST?

JULIA, DAVID, AND ERIKA grew up together spending summers at their idyllic Vermont lake homes for as long as they can remember. Now adults—with their own sullen teens, endless mortgages, and low-voltage sex lives—the three friends have amassed secrets over the years.

This summer, David is eager to show off his newly renovated home—which now blocks his friends� cherished lake views—and his much-younger girlfriend. He also, unwittingly, brings a nanny with a hidden agenda. What could possibly go wrong?

When David’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes after a shouting match, Julia and Erika wonder just how well they know their lifelong friend. The lake harbors a harrowing two young women, with no known connection, vanished without a trace thirty years ago. Did the lake take another?

As a search is mounted, an intricate web of lies, deceits, and betrayals spanning generations starts to surface, and everyone finds themselves in danger of becoming the next victim. Of the lake, or something darker.]]> 368 Jamie Day 1250358191 Nic 0 to-read 3.69
author: Jamie Day
name: Nic
average rating: 3.69
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 222209967 A brand new standalone, opposites attract, college hockey romance.

Chase Lovett.
Star of my (unrequited) fantasies.
Hottest guy on campus.
Hockey god.

Too bad he has no idea who I am. Literally, I’m so invisible to him that he once sat on me in class.

No thanks to a fire in the dorms, he just became my accidental roommate.
Did I mention the hotel room our university moved us to has only one bed?
Not ideal.

Worse, I accidentally left “My Precious� Lord of the Rings underwear hanging to dry in our shower.
My actual nightmare.

My name is Cammie Lovelock and this might just be the worst, best thing that’s ever happened to me.]]> 226 Helena Hunting 1998657027 Nic 0 to-read 3.51
author: Helena Hunting
name: Nic
average rating: 3.51
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 217388258 Was it...
Bitter, all-consuming jealousy?
Pathological sibling rivalry?
Pure insanity?

Whatever the cause—and everyone has a theory—it's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family.

Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister Amanda visits are, “I didn’t do it. You’ve got to get me out of here.�

Amanda doesn't trust Georgia, but she can't abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Is Georgia the victim of a powerful family that's so depraved murder is the least of their crimes? Or is Amanda being led down a path of madness into the web of a master manipulator?

Nothing is as it seems in Sarah Pekkanen’s The Locked Ward, a shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood—and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point.

Some doors in the Locked Ward should never be opened.]]> 320 Sarah Pekkanen 1250349516 Nic 0 to-read 3.88 2025
author: Sarah Pekkanen
name: Nic
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 13665100
Since the new guy, Michael Fontaine, came along, Mia Crawford is being hunted. Strange creatures appear out of nowhere. Visions of another time and place creep into her thoughts.

Searching for answers, Mia discovers a past life of forbidden love, jealousy and revenge that tore an angel from Heaven and sent her to an early grave. Now that her soul has returned, does she have a chance at loving that angel again? Or will an age-old nemesis destroy them both?

Ancient history is only the beginning.

Winner of the Chanticleer Grand Prize for supernatural fiction, The Watcher is the fast-paced, achingly romantic start to The Watcher Saga, a Young Adult romantic fantasy series.

If you’re a fan of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments Series, the Twilight Saga, or the Vampire Diaries, you’ll devour this series that combines all of their best traits in a fast-paced, captivating, romantic thriller.]]> 541 Lisa Voisin 0985656220 Nic 0 to-read 3.68 2013
author: Lisa Voisin
name: Nic
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/30
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 213213339 Financial Times to the Mail on Sunday. Her interest in human rights and dictatorships led her to Iraq on four occasions, travelling to Baghdad, Irbil, and Basra before and after the invasion in 2003. She has also reported from Africa and the Middle East. Arriving in an old Soviet helicopter and a C130 military aircraft, she reported extensively from Afghanistan. She later wrote her first Dispatches from the Kabul Café is a memoir of a country at a tipping point.

War and genocide have fuelled Kingstone’s pursuits and informed her work. Like so much in her life, from moving to London from her native Toronto to ending up in Iraq and Afghanistan, serendipity played its part in writing Genocide � Personal Stories, Big Questions. She met a woman born in Bergen-Belsen, the former Nazi concentration camp liberated by the British. She taught English to some Yazidi victims of Isis brutality, who had settled in Canada � as she had done generations before. These encounters kindled Kingstone’s study of the Holocaust, something she had known about all her life as the granddaughter of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe. As the book took shape, it seemed inevitable that the genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries, each unique, had much in common, not least the depths to which humanity can sink.]]> 312 Heidi Kingstone 1739281861 Nic 0 currently-reading 0.0
author: Heidi Kingstone
name: Nic
average rating: 0.0
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/03
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> 216005967 322 Heidi Kingstone Nic 0 currently-reading 4.00
author: Heidi Kingstone
name: Nic
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/03
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> 216875469 A standalone enemies to lovers, fake engagement, hockey romance.

I’ve been secretly in love with Wilhelmina Reddi-Grinst since the third grade.

I should be the one taking her to our small-town high school reunion. The prom king finally gets his chance with the valedictorian.
Except she hates me.

To the world, I’m a pro hockey player with a million dollar smile.
To Hemi, I’m the menace who (accidentally) sank her bike to the bottom of the lake.

I never thought I’d be able to right my wrongs until she took the team’s PR job.
I’d hoped I was making progress, winning her over—one geriatric polka party at a time.

Until I got drunk one night and made a mistake. A very big mistake.
Now the world thinks we’re both very much in love–—except Hemi is absolutely in loathe.

To save our jobs and reputations, we have to convince all our friends, family, and bosses that our fake relationship is the real deal.

I’ll do anything to protect her, especially if it means I get to be the best boyfriend Hemi never expected.


*If you want to meet Dallas and Hemi before you read their story, you can start with If You Hate Me, and If You Want Me. ]]> 404 Helena Hunting 1989185894 Nic 0 to-read 4.00
author: Helena Hunting
name: Nic
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/10/27
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 13004606
She knows they can never be. She will return home to California within a month, leaving behind all she loves about the ancient city. In a rare fit of spontaneity, Elle has contracted with Madame Eve's 1Night Stand dating service, hoping to find a way to forget the dark, handsome young man who has captured her heart. Little does she know what awaits her in the ancient recesses of the Ottoman palace turned luxury hotel under the hands of her one-night stand masseur.]]> 352 Liz Crowe 1613331126 Nic 0 to-read 4.20 2011
author: Liz Crowe
name: Nic
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/29
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 204906185 Every touch has its price in the second book in the explosive Dark Elements trilogy, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Blood and Ash series.

Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Her best friend, Zayne, is forever off-limits thanks to her mysterious power of a soul-stealing kiss. Suddenly, the Warden clan that has always protected her is keeping dangerous secrets. And she can barely think about Roth, the forbidden demon prince who understands her in ways no one else ever could.

Rock bottom is only the beginning once Layla’s powers finally start to evolve. She’s offered a tantalizing taste of what has always been forbidden, finally getting what she has always wanted, but with hell literally breaking loose and the body count piling up, the price may be higher than Layla is willing or able to pay.]]> 448 Jennifer L. Armentrout 133565285X Nic 0 to-read 4.17 2014
author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
name: Nic
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 215956000 The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train.

An isolated Scottish island, accessible to the mainland only twelve hours a day. A famous (some might say infamous) artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared after visiting her twenty years ago. A present-day discovery that intimately connects three people and unveils a web of secrets and lies.

A masterful and propulsive novel that asks searing questions of ambition, power, gender and perception, The Blue Hour recalls the very best of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced, powerful and stylish storytellers.]]> 320 Paula Hawkins 0385700180 Nic 0 to-read 3.16 2024
author: Paula Hawkins
name: Nic
average rating: 3.16
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 210324671
Just as he’s about to get lost, he meets Eliah, an acting student whose open presence brings a rare kind of stability. Eliah balances Storm’s intricate personality, and the two get close. An encounter with Eliah’s ominous boss leads them into a night in Amsterdam that blurs the boundaries of their friendship.

Storm begins to feel a connection to Eliah, which he can’t quite define. But things take a darker turn when he meets Sky—Eliah’s enigmatic girlfriend. The single encounter ignites an obsession that overtakes him, and he finds himself in a surreal triangle of feelings.

As Berlin’s cold streets mirror Storm’s spiraling mind, he loses grip on reality. Driven by jealousy, desire, and the twisted guidance of his darker self, he descends into a series of reckless encounters that nearly cost him his life.

Sky, battling her own demons with drugs and the toxicity of her relationship with Eliah, yearns for escape. She runs to the shores of Ibiza just to be captured and brought back to Berlin, where her path crosses with Storm once more.

“A raw reflection of Berlin.�

“Storm is an extremely complex character. The narrative is as fragmented as his mind written in a poetic way.�

“Euphoria (the TV series) + Supermarket (book by Bobby Hall) = STORM�

...a descent into the depths of a fragmented mind
...a tale of love; lost and found
...a portrait smeared with the hues of delirium
...a trip into the heart of obsession
...a search for identity and understanding
...a reflection of the silent struggles fought unseen
...a story for those who find beauty in the broken

Storm is a haunting psychological journey that captures Berlin's gritty but beautiful essence. This novel explores the fine line between love and obsession. It stands at the intersection of contemporary fiction, gothic coming of age, dark romance, and psychological suspense.]]> 318 Noam Leon Nic 0 to-read 4.00
author: Noam Leon
name: Nic
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 204906169
Somewhere in the Pacific, 1943. Kate Campbell is a nurse who bravely flies back and forth from the front to rescue wounded soldiers, amid long days, harsh conditions and often dangerous weather. Driven by a deep personal need to help in the war effort, she is conflicted when an injury results in her reassignment to the relative comfort of the English countryside.

Love has never been part of her plan, but despite herself, she falls for an officer with three bullet wounds, startling blue eyes and a wicked sense of humor. For the first time, Kate sees a future far from the horrors of war and hate. But before she can pursue it, a secret from her past calls her to duty, and she'll have to travel back into danger one more time to rescue a part of herself she'd left behind. But will she make it back? And will that future still be waiting for her if she does?]]> 416 Noelle Salazar 0778369617 Nic 0 to-read 4.32 2024
author: Noelle Salazar
name: Nic
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 126918128 New York Times bestselling author Tracey Garvis Graves takes readers on a life affirming journey, where two lost souls find the unexpected courage to love again.

Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn’t see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess behind her. No one is more surprised than Wren when she discovers that geocaching―the outdoor activity of using GPS to look for hidden objects―is the only thing getting her out of bed and out of her head. She decides that a weeklong solo quest geocaching in Oregon is exactly what she needs to take back control of her life.

Enter Marshall Hendricks, a psychologist searching for distraction as he struggles with a life-altering blow of his own. Though Wren initially rebuffs Marshall’s attempt at hiker small talk, she’s beyond grateful when he rescues her from a horrifying encounter farther down the trail. In the interest of safety, Marshall suggests partnering up to look for additional caches. Wren’s no longer quite so trusting of the universe―or men in general―but her inner circle might argue that a smart, charismatic psychologist isn’t the worst thing the universe could place in her path.

What begins as a platonic road trip gradually blossoms into something deeper, and the more Wren learns about Marshall, the more she wants to know. Now all she can do is hope that the universe gets it right this time.]]> 271 Tracey Garvis Graves 1250280281 Nic 0 to-read 3.94 2024
author: Tracey Garvis Graves
name: Nic
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 8331551


After ten years together, Ethan Mallory and Rhett Solomon are calling it quits. They’re more than ready to dump their heavy emotional baggage. The only thing they can’t seem to unload is the house. They’re stuck living as roommates with a hefty mortgage hanging over their heads…at least until they can bring in some extra money to pay it down. rent out a room.

Enter Kieran Frost. Suddenly, the only thing Ethan and Rhett both want more than getting away from each other is getting close to their single, young, hot roommate. Complicating things is the fact that Kieran doesn’t mind the attention from both, and he certainly doesn’t mind sharing.

Their combined chemistry ignites something else that Ethan and Rhett had thought was long dead—the mutual attraction that drew them together in the first place. Except bitter jealousy over Kieran could only push them even farther apart�



Includes multiple threesomes, angry sex, makeup sex, and a little peeking.]]> 216 L.A. Witt 1609281365 Nic 0 to-read 3.75 2010
author: L.A. Witt
name: Nic
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2010
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 608216
Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals. Though they are still young, the ordeals they endured have changed them--and after living apart in a world laid waste, they must now find a way to live together in postwar America.

With the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their lives, their family, and their hard-won peace. To regain the happiness they once knew, to wash away the lingering pain of the past, two lovers grown distant must somehow forge a new life . . .or watch the ghosts of their yesterdays destroy their firstborn son.

The Summer Garden . . . their odyssey is just beginning.]]> 742 Paullina Simons 0007162499 Nic 5 ]]> 4.06 2005
author: Paullina Simons
name: Nic
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/02
date added: 2024/09/03
shelves:
review:
I’m not sure how to move on after this series. I wasn’t ready for it to end.

]]> 83143
Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander barely escapes execution, and is forced to lead a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by the Soviet high command. Yet Alexander is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin's death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again.]]> 559 Paullina Simons 0007118899 Nic 5 ]]> 4.27 2003
author: Paullina Simons
name: Nic
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 2024/08/19
date added: 2024/09/03
shelves:
review:
When you think the second book in a series couldn’t possibly be as EPIC as the first book…Wrong.

]]> 83144 Librarian note: alternate covers for this edition can be found here and here and here.

During the summer of 1941 the Metanov family are living a hard life in Leningrad. As the German armies advance their future looks bleak. For Tatiana, love arrives in the guise of Alexander, who harbours a deadly and extraordinary secret.]]> 637 Paullina Simons 0006513220 Nic 5
There aren’t enough stars for this rating. ]]> 4.32 2000
author: Paullina Simons
name: Nic
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 2024/08/08
date added: 2024/09/03
shelves:
review:
After 10 years, and countless friends telling me to read this series, I FINALLY read The Bronze Horseman. To say this book is EPIC is an absolute understatement. Unforgettable characters, gut wrenching angst, beautiful storytelling and epic love�

There aren’t enough stars for this rating.
]]> 19540434 Gemma Falls never expected to use her game theory expertise to outrun a killer. But for years, that skill is all that kept her one step ahead of a deadly stalker. When Gemma gets the chance to teach at D.C. University, she hopes she and her young daughter have found a safe harbor. The only flaw is the arrogant philosophy professor who’s always underfoot giving unwanted advice—in his sexy British accent . . .

Hide:
Jethro Hanson has blood on his hands. He’s working within ivy-covered university halls now, but he knows that his work with the Deep Ops team and the deadly acts he once committed for the sake of Queen and country place him beyond forgiveness—until he meets Gemma . . .

Seek:
Soon, the passion between them stuns them both. But when Jethro discovers a threat is fast overtaking her, he must choose between the redemption he seeks—and releasing the ever-present killer inside . . .]]> 286 Rebecca Shea Nic 0 to-read 4.14 2014
author: Rebecca Shea
name: Nic
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/08/16
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 211003752 A dazzling, electrifying, and thought-provoking novel for readers of Maame and Honey Girl, Things Left Unsaid is a mesmerizing and deeply-felt exploration of discovering your place in the world and the lasting power of love.

When twenty-six year old Shirin Bayat bumps into Kian at a house party in London, she is taken aback by the immediate feelings that resurface. It’s been a decade since they were close friends at school, before painful events pulled them apart, suddenly and seemingly forever. Ever since, Shirin has lived with the aching weight of things left unsaid between them.

Now they're back in each other's lives, at a time when Shirin needs someone she can trust the most. Feeling stuck in a sea of slippery friendships and deeply burned out by her publishing job, Kian is a bright light amongst a sea of gray. There’s nothing worse than losing the person you trust most with your deepest secrets and desires, and Shirin and Kian are determined to hold tightly to each other.

But of course, life often has other plans. Will it be different this time around, or are Shirin and Kian destined to fall apart once more?]]> 320 Sara Jafari 1250288835 Nic 0 to-read 3.97 2025
author: Sara Jafari
name: Nic
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/08/09
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 208456112 The twisty and devastating instant #1 New York Times bestselling romantic mystery—now in a stunning hardcover Collector's Edition featuring nine exclusive illustrations, a foil-stamped case, beautifully stained edges and custom designed endpapers.

Never stop...Never forget...Just remember.

Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why.

But the more they learn about the couple they used to be...the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.

Heart-stopping and utterly captivating, Never Never will leave readers breathless and believing in the power of love.]]> 400 Colleen Hoover 1335080090 Nic 0 to-read 3.24 2016
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Nic
average rating: 3.24
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/08/09
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 23411923
Three of his major paintings have been savagely defaced and his house left in ruins. As his friends search for him, does his muse, Ava, hold the key?

Before the hope of love is lost, secrets will be told, spirits will be broken, and a price will be paid.
From the cave dwellings of New Mexico to the shores of Malibu, Max and Ava’s journey tests them to their limits. As they render passion and pain in broad strokes, will their all-consuming love rise from the debris?]]> 260 Ruth Clampett 0989391949 Nic 4
Finally, I had the chance to dive into Ruth Clampett’s, Work of Art book 2, The Unveiling. I’ve been dying to know how Max and Eva’s story would continue after the major cliffy in the first book. Fabulous! So much angst� Love angst! And O.M.G. Ruth Clampett what did you do with the Jonathan storyline!!! WOW! Don’t you love when you think a story is headed one way, only to have the author take it in a different direction!!! I am absolutely crushed and praying that Ms. Clampett has something up her sleeve for this storyline.

If you are looking for some SMOKIN� sexy reading, I promise you Ruth Clampett will have your blood pressure soaring because this lady definitely knows how to write hot and schmexy! Can’t wait to dive into book 3 and see what happens next.
]]> 4.14 2014
author: Ruth Clampett
name: Nic
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves:
review:
*Do not read The Unveiling if you have not read yet read Work of Art book 1*

Finally, I had the chance to dive into Ruth Clampett’s, Work of Art book 2, The Unveiling. I’ve been dying to know how Max and Eva’s story would continue after the major cliffy in the first book. Fabulous! So much angst� Love angst! And O.M.G. Ruth Clampett what did you do with the Jonathan storyline!!! WOW! Don’t you love when you think a story is headed one way, only to have the author take it in a different direction!!! I am absolutely crushed and praying that Ms. Clampett has something up her sleeve for this storyline.

If you are looking for some SMOKIN� sexy reading, I promise you Ruth Clampett will have your blood pressure soaring because this lady definitely knows how to write hot and schmexy! Can’t wait to dive into book 3 and see what happens next.

]]> 51082782 The most dangerous magic must be destroyed

Genevieve Flannery’s family inheritance is both an invaluable gift and an unspeakable curse: Genevieve is one of the heirs of the Avrakedavra, a trio of ancient texts capable of preserving everlasting life–or eroding it completely. Burdened with the power of untold magic and tormented by those who would seek to exploit it, Genevieve knows that the three Avrakedavra texts must be destroyed.

If only the road ahead were easy. Genevieve is grateful to have her fellow heir, the irresistible Henry, by her side, but when the father she never knew she had becomes their guide, all bets are off. Together, this new team must rely on unexpected allies as they embark on a harrowing global search to acquire the pieces necessary to destroy this ancient magic and complete the Undoing.

But loyalties among the magical community are fragile. Genevieve, grieving the loss of her mother, struggles to control her new Avrakedavra-bestowed gifts, and with mounting threats to her psyche and body, she clings mightily to the promise of a brighter future once this quest is over—if she can survive it. And Henry, broken by his father’s treachery but entranced by the heartwarming connection his family’s text has granted him, grapples with the fact that once they succeed in destroying the books, he’ll lose the only family he has left.

Forced to question all that they hold dear, the young heirs must remember Genevieve’s mother’s greatest lesson: the key to good is found in truth.]]> 416 Jennifer Sommersby 1443418889 Nic 0 to-read 4.62 2020
author: Jennifer Sommersby
name: Nic
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 199798187 Three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwind and celebrate a new chapter in midlife—until they realize the resort of their dreams is harboring a killer.

Best friends Darcy, Camilla, and Kate escape for a post-divorce retreat in the Maldives, the perfect place to relax, reset, and embrace a fresh start in life. Darcy is learning how to be a free woman at forty-two. Camilla has found the perfect calling as a fitness and wellness influencer with a devoted following. And Kate is finally working on the book she was meant to write after years of telling other people’s stories.

Their dream getaway? The exclusive and isolated Sapphire Island Resort. With luxurious private villas, crystal-clear waters, and sun-drenched white sand beaches, relaxation is guaranteed. But this is no ordinary friendship, and they’re not the only guests on the island with secrets. Who left the body on the beach—and who’s next?

A propulsive and deliciously dark tale about female friendship, loyalty, and lies, Bad Tourists is a white-hot thriller from the first word to its mind-blowing finish.]]> 336 Caro Carver 1668058847 Nic 0 to-read 3.62 2024
author: Caro Carver
name: Nic
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/09
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 210471735 672 Deborah Harkness 3641318890 Nic 0 to-read 3.98 2024
author: Deborah Harkness
name: Nic
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/01
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 214333856 A standalone age-gap, dad's best friend hockey romance.

There’s no one more off limits than my best friend’s daughter.

Peggy Aurora Hammerstein. The Toronto Terror’s unofficial team princess. I would never do anything to mess with our team dynamics this late into the hockey season, but seeing her work in the front office changed something for me.

I see her as she is now: a powerful woman with ambition for miles.
When I hold her against me, she fits perfectly.

Her little flirts and taunts push my buttons, if she doesn’t stop–my control just might break.
But I can never cross that line. I can never know what it could be to call her mine.

I’ve never wanted anyone more than Aurora and no one can ever know.


*This is Hollis Hendrix's standalone novel. If you want to meet Hollis before you read this book, check out If You Hate Me, Rix and Tristan's story.]]> 460 Helena Hunting 1989185843 Nic 0 to-read 3.80 2024
author: Helena Hunting
name: Nic
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/06/23
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 195391683
Karina and Kael have been trying to make it work for as long as they’ve been together. The two broken souls have a lot of individual healing to do before they’ll be able to find happiness anywhere, never mind with each other.

As the world around them starts to crumble, Kael is consumed by the darkness of his PTSD, and Karina struggles to overcome her anxiety, which is at an all time high. Then someone from their past returns to invade their lives and wreak havoc on the fragile peace they’ve created. If they’re going to have the future they dream of, they’ll have to commit to fighting this battle together.]]> 304 Anna Todd 1998854027 Nic 0 to-read 3.69 2024
author: Anna Todd
name: Nic
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/06/23
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 61431964 Can you love the dark when you know what it hides?

Some things aren’t supposed to exist outside of our imagination.

Thirteen years ago, monsters emerged from the shadows and plunged Kierse’s world into a cataclysmic war of near-total destruction. The New York City she knew so well collapsed practically overnight.

In the wake of that carnage, the Monster Treaty was created. A truce...of sorts.

But tonight, Kierse―a gifted and fearless thief―will break that treaty. She’ll enter the Holly Library...not knowing it’s the home of a monster.

He’s charming. Quietly alluring. Terrifying. But he knows talent when he sees it; it’s just a matter of finding her price.

Now she’s locked into a dangerous bargain with a creature unlike any other. She’ll sacrifice her freedom. She’ll offer her skills. Together, they’ll put their own futures at risk.

But he’s been playing a game across centuries―and once she joins in, there will be no escape...]]> 400 K.A. Linde 1649374070 Nic 0 to-read 3.73 2024
author: K.A. Linde
name: Nic
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/06/05
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 213735910 When you are lost in the labyrinth of your own making, facing a beast composed of the consequences of your mistakes ... which way do you turn?

Running a tech empire and being at the top of his game, life for Antoni Olsson is perfect. From the outside. But money can only hide the cracks for so long. His family's foundation has always been his steadfast companion and lover, Amelia. High-school sweethearts with twin sons, their existence in Chicagoland is envied by all.

Bravery can be fleeting when one senses a looming monster in the darkness!

For Amelia Olsson, the perfect life lost its gleam a long time ago. There's a darkness that's crept over the horizon and engulphed her. She held on to hope until it shredded her apart. The wrack line on her shore is a gritty tapestry of life's broken things. Holding a mirror to their lives inspires self-reflection. A passion for Greek mythology encourages a last-ditch attempt to save their marriage.

If the foundation breaks, the walls crumble, and the house falls.

Can ancient philosophy help this modern couple overcome their challenges while the Tides of Awakening compel them to drift? For Antoni and Amelia, there is a red thread of hope. Can they follow it out of the maze they've trapped themselves in?

When the roads ahead are tangled between myth and reality, which exit do you take?]]> 266 Becca Vry Nic 0 to-read 4.60
author: Becca Vry
name: Nic
average rating: 4.60
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/05/24
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 13498505 No longer available.

Novellas one through three of the Undying Love Vampire Series combined to make a full length novel. Bonus: map of Beisa, Pennsylvania It tells the story of a young girl with a chip on her shoulder, braving it in a world in which she feels utterly alone. That is until she meets Caleb. The much anticipated book two of the series is titled 9 Lives. It continues the tale of Kat and Caleb's turbulent romance with a supernatural twist. Kat Fight, book three, will break all the rules and force readers to choose sides. Nothing is what is seems in this mind-bending tale.]]> 310 Teresa Mummert Nic 0 to-read 3.92 2011
author: Teresa Mummert
name: Nic
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/01/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 29351417 Teresa Mummert Nic 0 to-read 3.00
author: Teresa Mummert
name: Nic
average rating: 3.00
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/12/09
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 21936309
I know that because I’ve been back in America for years now, and I still don’t date American girls. My dad would say I’ve come to my senses, sticking to my own British patrician kind, but that’s crap. Mum, the psychologist, would more wisely say it’s my unresolved issues around Nicki. My teenage years are long behind me, yet my guilt over her remains. So I’ve avoided all things Nicki, though the irony is she’s the one avoiding me.

Maybe if we see each other, we can both move on. Could she ever forgive me? Can you forgive yourself when you hurt someone you love?

But please, don’t answer yet. I’ve jumped ahead of the story, and as a reporter, I should give you more background to get to the root of it all.

So let me tell you my story. Then you can be the judge.
]]> 242 Mary Whitney Nic 0 to-read 4.11 2014
author: Mary Whitney
name: Nic
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/11/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 123170749 New York Times bestseller, The Mister, a passionate and thrilling love story from E L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogies.

Alessia regards her husband through heavy-lidded eyes.

You'll have to fight for him. Her mother's words from their call this morning ring through her head. And fight, she will. Using every available weapon she has.

She loves him. She knows this. She wants him.

And she wants him to want her.

What happens once the glass slipper fits�?

Maxim Trevelyan, reluctant Earl of Trevethick, has pursued the woman he loves to the wilds of Albania. Having fought for and won her, he now has to wed her, at the sharp end of a shotgun.

But can a reformed rake like Maxim ever make a good husband � or will his own notorious reputation and the scandalous secrets of his aristocratic family destroy his newfound happiness?

Alessia Demachi has defied and outwitted kidnappers and traffickers, and won the heart of the man she loves, but can she make this marriage work? Confronted by Maxim's lurid past, his forbidding family, and the looks and whispers of London's elite, will she ever be seen as Maxim's countess � or will she always be his former cleaner?

From the majestic mountains of Albania, through the rural idyll of the English countryside, to the shady glamour of contemporary London, The Missus is a spellbinding journey of love, longing, acceptance, and redemption.]]> 464 E.L. James 1728290279 Nic 4 3.48 2023
author: E.L. James
name: Nic
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2023/09/30
date added: 2023/10/02
shelves:
review:
I’ve been a slow reader the last number of years. I enjoy reading a chapter or two at bedtime but that’s about all my attention span can handle. I have FINALLY finished reading E L James� The Missus, and I absolutely loved it.
]]> 17935405
British, gorgeous, and way too tempting, Matthew’s the first guy Jane’s been attracted to since her husband. As she spends more time with him and their relationship heats up, though, so does her writer’s block. How can the queen of the break up pen the perfect follow-up when she’s seriously in love?]]> 262 Lauren Blakely Nic 0 to-read 4.00 2018
author: Lauren Blakely
name: Nic
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/09/14
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 25440875
Twenty-seven years ago, Christina Lamb left Britain to become a journalist in Pakistan. She crossed the Hindu Kush into Afghanistan with mujaheddin fighting the Russians and fell unequivocally in love with this fierce country of pomegranates and war, a relationship which has dominated her adult life.

Since 2001, Lamb has watched with incredulity as the West fought a war with its hands tied, committed too little too late, failed to understand local dynamics and turned a blind eye as their Taliban enemy was helped by their ally Pakistan.

Farewell Kabul tells how success was turned into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest nations on earth, the Taliban undefeated, and nuclear armed Pakistan perhaps the most dangerous place on earth.

With unparalleled access to all key decision-makers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, London and Washington, from heads of state and generals as well as soldiers on the ground, Farewell Kabul tells how this happened.

In Afghanistan, Lamb has travelled far beyond Helmand � from the caves of Tora Bora in the south to the mountainous bad lands of Kunar in the east; from Herat, city of poets and minarets in the west, to the very poorest province of Samangan in the north. She went to Guantánamo, met Taliban in Quetta, visited jihadi camps in Pakistan and saw bin Laden’s house just after he was killed. Saddest of all, she met women who had been made role models by the West and had then been shot, raped or forced to flee the country.

This deeply personal book not only shows the human cost of political failure but explains how short-sighted encouragement of jihadis to fight the Russians, followed by prosecution of ill-thought-out wars, has resulted in the spread of terrorism throughout the Islamic world.]]> 640 Christina Lamb Nic 0 to-read 4.50 2010
author: Christina Lamb
name: Nic
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2010
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/31
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 63120226 The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us joins forces with the New York Times bestselling author of The Wives. Together, they have created a gripping, twisty, romantic mystery unlike any other.

Never stop...Never forget...Just remember.

Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why.

But the more they learn about the couple they used to be...the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.]]> 416 Colleen Hoover 1335004882 Nic 0 to-read 3.16 2016
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Nic
average rating: 3.16
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/22
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 123023304 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Never and The Wives

Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped—so why does no one believe her?

Iris narrowly escaped her twin sister’s fate as a teen: abducted in broad daylight and long gone before she could convince the cops there was anything to investigate. With Piper presumed a runaway and no evidence to go on but Iris’s scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold.

Ever since that terrible day, Iris� search for Piper has bordered on obsession. Chasing leads across years and following clues that all seem to point to a single name, Iris does everything she can to get close to the only person who might know the answer to the question that still haunts her: where did Piper go? And if the police still won’t help, she’ll just have to find the answer herself--using her criminal psychology degree to intern at the isolated psychiatric hospital on Shoal Island, where secrets lurk in the shadows and are kept under lock and key. But Iris soon realizes that something even more sinister is simmering beneath the surface of the Shoal, and that the patients aren’t the only ones being observed…]]> 288 Tarryn Fisher 0369732758 Nic 0 to-read 3.69 2024
author: Tarryn Fisher
name: Nic
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/09
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 17233800
The girl with straight A's and the perfect life—that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy family…and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker—a guy she has no business even talking to. But after the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind.

The last thing Isaiah needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks. But when their shared love of street racing puts their lives in jeopardy, Isaiah and Rachel will have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.]]> 474 Katie McGarry 037321099X Nic 0 to-read 4.26 2013
author: Katie McGarry
name: Nic
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/30
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 17788254 1000 M.M. Kaye Nic 0 to-read 4.38 1978
author: M.M. Kaye
name: Nic
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1978
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/06/16
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 62951021 For readers of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls, a dazzling novel about Ilse, a spy, and Billy, a pilot, who fall in love but are wrenched apart during World War II, and must find their way back to each other--from bestselling author C.C. Humphreys.

When Billy Coke steps onto the streets of London one December evening in 1940, he has no idea he is stepping to his fate. As Hitler's bombers come close to burning the city down, Billy meets the woman who will change the course of his life: Ilse Magnusson, a musician from Norway, but also something more--a spy in training.

Escaping the Blitz for three days, she and Billy drive, quarrel, conceal, reveal . . . and fall finally, fully, in love.

Now they must part, each to fight the war their own way. Billy, a Canadian Spitfire pilot, to duel with the Luftwaffe over North Africa and the Med. Ilse to return to her conquered country, ingratiate herself with the Nazi elite--which includes her beloved father--and send vital intelligence back to Britain.

They know that the odds of both of them surviving are poor. All they can hope is that the other does survive--and that someday they find each other again.

From decadent pre-war Berlin to the atrocity at Guernica, from dogfights over Sicily to an Oslo ground under the German jackboot, through small victories and bitter losses, this is the story of a man and a woman at war. A tale of causes and compromises, heroism and betrayal. Of choices made, with consequences unforeseen. And finally, how sometimes . . . love can give you a second chance.]]> 408 C.C. Humphreys 0385690517 Nic 0 currently-reading 3.77
author: C.C. Humphreys
name: Nic
average rating: 3.77
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/06/09
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> 61431922 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile� humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die]]> 517 Rebecca Yarros 1649374046 Nic 0 to-read 4.56 2023
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: Nic
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/06/02
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 59345230 New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman—whose first book Falling was an instant #1 national bestseller and the biggest thriller debut of 2021—returns for her second book, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean, and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside, and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them.

Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors—but it’s too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside.

More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives.

Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent—Shannon’s mother and Will’s soon-to-be ex-wife—who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff.

There’s not much time.

There’s even less air.

With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family’s desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them—against impossible odds.]]> 304 T.J. Newman 1982177918 Nic 0 currently-reading 4.10 2023
author: T.J. Newman
name: Nic
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/05/25
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> 49645708
SAM HARRIS, autor de El fin de la fe

Yasmine Mohammed es una mujer muy valiente y un resplandeciente ejemplo para todas las mujeres que hayan padecido abusos, sea bajo el manto de la religión como del de la cultura. La historia de Yasmine –que este libro relata� es trágica y a su vez persuasiva. Soportó algo que ningún ser humano debería soportar. Su historia es también un relato de tenacidad y coraje, porque "no hay excusas para el abuso".

RAHEEL RAZA, autora de Their Jihad, not my Jihad

Somos demasiados los que tardamos en darnos cuenta de que las principales víctimas de la indecible crueldad que inspira la ferviente adhesión al islam son los propios musulmanes. Especialmente las mujeres. Este libro de Yasmine Mohammed, desgarrador, valiente y preciosamente escrito, trae esta realidad hasta nosotros de un modo que debería cambiar las mentes hasta de los más desinformados defensores de nuestro bien intencionado mundillo progresista.

RICHARD DAWKINS, autor de El espejismo de Dios]]> 366 Yasmine Mohammed 1999240510 Nic 0 to-read 4.34 2019
author: Yasmine Mohammed
name: Nic
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/05/04
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 132729781 422 Jodi Ellen Malpas 1957597410 Nic 0 to-read 4.52
author: Jodi Ellen Malpas
name: Nic
average rating: 4.52
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 13497102
This is book three in the Undying Love Vampire Series. Book one is titled Kat's Tale. It tells the story of a young girl with a chip on her shoulder, braving it in a world in which she feels utterly alone. That is until she meets Caleb. The much anticipated book two of the series is titled 9 Lives. It continues the tale of Kat and Caleb's turbulent romance with a supernatural twist. Kat Fight, book three, will break all the rules and force readers to choose sides. Nothing is what is seems in this mind-bending tale.]]> 90 Teresa Mummert 1465966609 Nic 0 to-read 3.65
author: Teresa Mummert
name: Nic
average rating: 3.65
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 13156388
Kat's world has been turned upside down after meeting Caleb, the vampire. She is on the run, trying to escape the evil clutches of Adam when she discovers Caleb may not be telling her the truth. She has to run for her life and to save the others she cares about. Nothing is what it seems in this fast paced thriller.]]> 98 Teresa Mummert 1467993905 Nic 0 to-read 3.69
author: Teresa Mummert
name: Nic
average rating: 3.69
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 23754935 Teresa Mummert Nic 0 to-read 3.75
author: Teresa Mummert
name: Nic
average rating: 3.75
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 16281719 Teresa Mummert Nic 0 to-read 4.56
author: Teresa Mummert
name: Nic
average rating: 4.56
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 128146163
Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Kent likes happy endings. Not that she's looking for one herself. Awkward, never been kissed, and bookish to the core, Lottie would rather read about love than experience it.

But she enjoys helping others find their HEA in books.

Lottie loves working at the library…even if it means running into Bo Stryker.

Broody, athletic, and unfairly attractive when he frowns, Bo works at the flower shop across the street. Lottie is about to get rejected…when surprisingly, Bo steps in, pretends to be her boyfriend, and steals her first kiss.

One viral video later, everyone thinks they're together.

Bo wants to keep pretending. Lottie wants to make amends—long story short: she was on a ladder; he startled her; the book slap was an accident.

A fake relationship may be the solution. But as they grow closer, Lottie can't help falling for Bo—which is a disaster because grumpy sunshine only works in fiction…right?

This book features two opposites with undeniable chemistry, one lovable librarian, so many stolen kisses and answers the question:

What happens when a nerd falls for the grump-next-door?]]> 395 Cookie O'Gorman Nic 0 to-read 4.12
author: Cookie O'Gorman
name: Nic
average rating: 4.12
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/12
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 45730983
Thankfully, Wonder enters the picture. They have so much in common. No college degrees, no pretensions, no stories from prep school or grad school. Just a love for literature. If only Wonder could commit herself to the writing life they could be those rare literary soulmates who never fall prey to their demons. Wonder has a tendency to love, to covet, but Joe is a believer in the rule of fiction: If you want to write a book, you have to kill your darlings.

With her trademark satirical, biting wit, Caroline Kepnes explores why vulnerable people bring out the worst in others as Joe sets out to make this small, exclusive world a fairer place. And if a little crimson runs in the streets of Cambridge . . . who can blame him? Love doesn’t conquer all. Often, it needs a little push.]]> 448 Caroline Kepnes Nic 4 3.27 2023
author: Caroline Kepnes
name: Nic
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2023/03/29
date added: 2023/03/30
shelves:
review:
I finished reading For You and Only You by Carolyn Kepnes last night and, of course, I loved it. An interesting new adventure with lots of twists and turn that had me on edge of my seat. Will Joe finally get caught?
]]> 83473446
A girl’s curse.

A quest to save dragons from extinction.

Dragons disappeared long ago. Now they’ve returned, and magic pours back into a world that has buried its existence.

Becca is ridiculed for believing dragons are more than the plague-bringers of history. When a fever sweeps through her village, igniting fears that the dragon plague has returned, her belief becomes dangerous. To make matters worse, Becca can suddenly sense emotions. It’s a curse, exposing secrets she’d rather not know and making life almost unbearable.

The youngest dragon, Gregor, watched his family die because he didn’t know his power could’ve saved them. Defying the rules, he risks exposure to search for a human girl from his vision, certain she’s the key to dragon survival.

But when Gregor finds Becca, violence erupts. Now the fate of the world rests on these unlikely heroes finding the courage to save dragons without losing everyone they love.]]> 418 Bonnie Jacoby 1738797414 Nic 0 to-read 4.65
author: Bonnie Jacoby
name: Nic
average rating: 4.65
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/03/16
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 61392437 David and Cheryl Burroughs are living the dream - married, a beautiful house in the suburbs, a three year old son named Matthew - when tragedy strikes one night in the worst possible way.

David awakes to find himself covered in blood, but not his own - his son's. And while he knows he did not murder his son, the overwhelming evidence against him puts him behind bars indefinitely.

Five years into his imprisonment, Cheryl's sister arrives - and drops a bombshell.

She's come with a photograph that a friend took on vacation at a theme park. The boy in the background seems familiar - and even though David realizes it can't be, he knows it is. It's Matthew, and he's still alive.

David plans a harrowing escape from prison, determined to do what seems impossible - save his son, clear his own name, and discover the real story of what happened that devastating night.]]> 329 Harlan Coben 1538748363 Nic 0 to-read 4.01 2023
author: Harlan Coben
name: Nic
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/03/14
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 60784540
Picture a lovely cottage on a cliff, with sloping lawns, walking paths, and beautiful flowers. It’s Gabe and Pippa Gerard’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Over the past several months, Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge.

Until one day, he doesn’t. When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral. . . .Did the victim jump? Was she pushed? And would Gabe, the love of Pippa’s life, her soulmate . . . lie? As the perfect façade of their marriage begins to crack, the deepest and darkest secrets begin to unravel. Because sometimes, the most convincing lies are the ones we tell ourselves.]]> 327 Sally Hepworth 1250229707 Nic 0 to-read 3.78 2022
author: Sally Hepworth
name: Nic
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/03/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 58158731
Gifted thief Romeria steals jewels under a notorious New York City crime boss. But when an enigmatic woman secures her services at swordpoint, Romeria is wrenched from this world and transported into a realm of opposing thrones, warring elven societies, and elemental magic.

Waking up in the body of a treacherous elven princess, Romeria quickly realizes she's entangled in a deadly plot and must hide her identity at all costs - not least from the princess's betrothed, King Zander, who detests her. Romeria is forced to play the smitten princess as the unwilling pair work together to uncover the danger that surrounds them.

But with their enemies closing in - and as she fights her growing feelings for the king - it's time for Romeria to find out who she truly is.

The first book in the captivating Fate & Flame series.]]> 492 K.A. Tucker 1990105165 Nic 0 to-read 4.01 2021
author: K.A. Tucker
name: Nic
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/03/06
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 62874236
Kitty Hart has become internet famous as the Kitty Whisperer for her expertise on all things feline, and as a result, her cat-sitting business is booming. But lately, she has a terrible feeling that maybe her life isn’tĚý quite Ěýgoing where it’s supposed to—especially after falling face-first into her newest client.Ěý Not exactly the best first impression .

Fortunately, Miles Thorn is just as bad at first impressions. Strike he doesn’t like cats, especially Prince Francis, the haughty and mischievous Sphynx his mom left in his care. Strike tackling Kitty to the floor in a misguided attempt to save the pet he continually calls “the gremlin.�

As awkwardness slides into attraction and things start to turn purr-sonal, will these two complete opposites ever be able to find their furry-tail ending?]]> 373 Helena Hunting 153872006X Nic 0 to-read 3.39 2023
author: Helena Hunting
name: Nic
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/02/15
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 62874245 Ěý
Lee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move—until early one morning, she sees aĚýsobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface, but instead of appreciation, she is met with fury. The drowning woman, Hazel, tells her that she wanted to die, that she’s trapped in a toxic, abusive marriage, that she’s a prisoner in her own home. Lee has thwarted her one chance to escape her life.

Out of options, Hazel retreats to her gilded cage, and Lee thinks she’s seen the last of her, until her unexpected return the next morning. Bonded by disparate but difficult circumstances, the women soon strike up a close and unlikely friendship. And thenĚýone day, Hazel makes a shocking request: she wants Lee to help her disappear. It’ll be easy, Hazel assures her, but Lee soon learns that nothing is as it seems, and that Hazel may not be the friend Lee thought she was.]]> 336 Robyn Harding 1538726769 Nic 0 to-read 3.99 2023
author: Robyn Harding
name: Nic
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/02/02
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 34649348 234 Cherie Dimaline 1770864865 Nic 0 to-read 3.94 2017
author: Cherie Dimaline
name: Nic
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/01/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 18505784 The Pearl that Broke Its Shell is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.

In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the market, and chaperone her older sisters.

But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. A century earlier, her great-aunt, Shekiba, left orphaned by an epidemic, saved herself and built a new life the same way.

Crisscrossing in time, The Pearl the Broke Its Shell interweaves the tales of these two women separated by a century who share similar destinies. But what will happen once Rahima is of marriageable age? Will Shekiba always live as a man? And if Rahima cannot adapt to life as a bride, how will she survive?]]> 452 Nadia Hashimi 0062244752 Nic 0 to-read 4.15 2014
author: Nadia Hashimi
name: Nic
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/01/23
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 60316383 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B086H33G7X

Retired US Detective Emil Janowitz lied to his wife for nearly forty years. Having lost his entire family whilst an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau it was simply easier on his soul to invent a past than face up to the demons buried deep inside. Life was good, but then the mail arrived bringing a letter which would result in a voyage of discovery, denunciation and confrontation with the past. Life is a journey, history should not be forgotten, the evil still exists.]]> Jack Carnegie Nic 0 to-read 4.04 2019
author: Jack Carnegie
name: Nic
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/01/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 63851215
Warned that a planet-killing asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, acquaintances Kat and Ryan join forces in an effort to survive. Mere hours before impact, they race toward the safety of Ryan's inherited South Dakota bunker, encountering chaos. A last-ditch effort to nuke the asteroid only manages to fragment it into chunks causing multiple strikes.

Earthquakes, fire, and volcanic ashfall assail Kat and Ryan, who turn to each other for solace. Kat finds someone kind who values her differences and Ryan finds himself falling for Kat's pluck and quick-thinking. Though jaded, they learn to trust and rely on one another.

Attempting to survive the onslaught of their new world, Kat and Ryan must reach the bunker before imminent food shortages and catastrophic climate change cause society to further unravel.

The Edge of Life shows that survival can include falling in love. With steamy romance and non-stop action, this is one thrilling apocalypse road trip you shouldn't miss.]]> 298 Lena Gibson 1685131719 Nic 0 to-read 4.28
author: Lena Gibson
name: Nic
average rating: 4.28
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/11/27
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 13153370
But Tom has another life, another equally overpowering claim on his affections. Patrick, a curator at the Brighton Museum, is also besotted with his policeman, and opens Tom's eyes to a world previously unknown to him. But in an age when those of 'minority status' were condemned by society and the law, it is safer for this policeman to marry his teacher. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.

Unfolding through the dual narratives of Marion and Patrick, both writing about the man at the centre of their lives, this beautifully-told, painful, tragic story is revealed.It is a tale of wasted years, misguided love and thwarted hope, of how at a time when the country was on the verge of change so much was still impossible.

Bethan Roberts has produced an intense and exquisitely raw yet tender novel, which proves her to be one of our most exciting young writers.]]> 352 Bethan Roberts 0701185848 Nic 0 to-read 4.00 2012
author: Bethan Roberts
name: Nic
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/11/06
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 27112414
Pretty things aren't meant to be broken. But I broke her, and now we both have to pay the price. I'm her nightmare. I'm her savior. And now that I have her signature on an ironclad contract, I own her body and soul. She doesn't remember me. She will. It's inevitable. Because as much as I know I need to stay away, for fear of unlocking the memories I helped her father bury--I can't. She was the apple in the Garden, dangled in front of me, her core so tempting and sweet. A voice whispered. Just. One. Bite. I bit. I tasted. I fell. Welcome to the world of the Russian mafia, where death, is your only future.]]> 346 Rachel Van Dyken Nic 0 to-read 4.06 2015
author: Rachel Van Dyken
name: Nic
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/04
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 60481659
Tova Friedman was only four years old when she was sent to a Nazi labor camp at the start of World War II. While friends and family were murdered in front of her eyes, the only weapon that Tova and her parents possessed was the primal instinct to survive at all costs. Fate intervened when, at the age of six, Tova was sent to a gas chamber, but walked out alive, saved by German bureaucracy. Not long afterwards, she cuddled a warm corpse to hide from Nazis rounding up prisoners for the Death March to Germany.

In this heartrending, lyrical account of a young girl's survival during the Holocaust, Tova Friedman, together with Malcolm Brabant, chronicles the atrocities she witnessed while at Auschwitz, a family secret that sheds light on the unpalatable choices Jews were forced to make to survive, and ultimately, the sources of hope and courage she and her family found to persist against all odds.]]> 320 Tova Friedman 1335449302 Nic 0 to-read 4.49 2022
author: Tova Friedman
name: Nic
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 61273863
Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attending doesn’t dampen her excitement.

But when the attendees arrive, Roza drops a bombshell—they must all complete an entire novel from scratch during the next month, and the author of the best one will receive a life-changing seven-figure publishing deal. Determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, Alex buckles down and tries to ignore the strange happenings at the estate, including Roza’s erratic behavior, Wren’s cruel mind games, and the alleged haunting of the mansion itself. But when one of the writers vanishes during a snowstorm, Alex realizes that something very sinister is afoot. With the clock running out, she must discover the truth—or suffer the same fate.]]> 313 Julia Bartz 1982199458 Nic 0 to-read 3.41 2023
author: Julia Bartz
name: Nic
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/08/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 12781
From the back cover.]]> 561 Salman Rushdie 0312270828 Nic 0 to-read 3.73 1988
author: Salman Rushdie
name: Nic
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1988
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/08/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 19387601
Kate Hardy's 'TIS THE SEASON TO KISS SANTA

With the help of a sprig of mistletoe and some snow angels, a recently single pastry chef teaches a highly successful and sexy Scrooge the true meaning of the holidays on a snowy Christmas Eve that quickly heats up.

Heidi Rice's 'TIS THE SEASON TO GO SHOPPING

When a Christmas Day blizzard strands an up-and-coming marketing manager and her boss's very off-limits, very hot playboy son in his department store, the two toe the line between naughty and nice as they unwrap their holiday presents—and each other!

Amy Andrews’s �TIS THE SEASON FOR KISSING

A down-on-her-romantic-luck kindergarten teacher plans to drown her New Year’s Eve sorrows in a gallon of spiked eggnog, but the arrival of her best friend's sexy brother threatens to melt the snow piling up outside the tiny Vermont cabin.

Aimee Carson’s �TIS THE SEASON TO BE TEMPTED

After the worst year ever, a jilted music manager rings in the New Year alone, swearing off men forever. But things get complicated when her brother's best friend, the perfect man with the perfect body, tempts her to break her vow—if only for one hot night!]]> 193 Amy Andrews Nic 0 to-read 3.91 2012
author: Amy Andrews
name: Nic
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/08/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 55125640
With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.

Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface.

She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea.]]> 336 Colleen Hoover 8671981746 Nic 0 to-read 4.26 2020
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Nic
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/03/23
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 58132545 In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future.

In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year.

Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides to follow his friend. In order to do so, he must leave his own passport and identity behind to go underground on the refugee trail with Omar. Their odyssey across land and sea from Afghanistan to Europe brings them face to face with the people at heart of the migration crisis: smugglers, cops, activists, and the men, women and children fleeing war in search of a better life. As setbacks and dangers mount for the two friends, Matthieu is also drawn into the escape plans of Omar's entire family, including Maryam, the matriarch who has fought ferociously for her children's survival.

Harrowing yet hopeful, this exceptional work brings into sharp focus one of the most contentious issues of our times. The Naked Don't Fear the Water is a tale of love and friendship across borders, and an inquiry into our shared journey in a divided world.]]> 336 Matthieu Aikins 0063058588 Nic 0 to-read 4.18 2022
author: Matthieu Aikins
name: Nic
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/03/22
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 60510896
Eighteen-year-old Magnolia believes in true love.

Or she did.

When her boyfriend dumps her the day before her sister's wedding, Maggie is devastated—but her broken heart is only part of the problem. Maggie is the maid of honor, and her sister insists: Every member of the bridal party must have an escort. No exceptions.

Thank goodness for Hayden Davenport.

Sarcastic, cocky, a surprisingly good listener and self-professed player, when Maggie gets stuck in an elevator with the handsome stranger, she thinks she's found the perfect wedding date. Unfortunately, Hayden hates weddings. Like really hates them.

But one soul-shattering kiss changes everything.

Maggie needs a fake boyfriend. Hayden wants to prove he's changed his playboy ways. Faking it should be easy. The hard part?

Remembering it's all pretend and not falling in love for real.

This book features two opposites with sizzling chemistry, a sweet, hopeless romantic and a cynical bad boy who'll steal your heart. Elevators, fake romance, and weddings, oh my! Get ready to swoon, laugh, and say 'I do' to this heartfelt YA romance.]]> 283 Cookie O'Gorman Nic 0 currently-reading 4.20 2022
author: Cookie O'Gorman
name: Nic
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/03/20
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> 60117069
In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Highlands to the Borders are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England. At the same time, the French are preparing to launch an invasion to bring the young exiled Jacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne, and in Edinburgh the streets are filled with discontent and danger.

Queen Anne's commissioners, seeking to calm the situation, have begun paying out money sent up from London to settle the losses and wages owed to those Scots who took part in the disastrous Darien expedition eight years earlier—an ill-fated venture that left Scotland all but bankrupt.

When the young widow of a Darien sailor comes forward to collect her husband's wages, her claim is challenged. One of the men assigned to investigate has only days to decide if she's honest, or if his own feelings are blinding him to the truth.

The Vanished Days is a prequel and companion novel to The Winter Sea, with action that overlaps some of the action in that book. The Vanished Days goes back in time to the 1680s and introduces the reader to the Moray and Graeme families.]]> 544 Susanna Kearsley 1501116584 Nic 0 to-read 3.99 2021
author: Susanna Kearsley
name: Nic
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/03/05
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 60393672 Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching� (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.

Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date.

But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.

Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding� (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover� (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author).]]> 323 Colleen Hoover 1668001225 Nic 0 to-read 3.80 2022
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Nic
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/02/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 22471294 Became a tech billionaire by his twentieth birthday. Has been in a relationship with me for 3 years. Has proposed 4 times. Been rejected 4 times.

Lee:
Cuts grass when he's not banging housewives. Good with his hands, his mouth, and his body. Has been pursued relentlessly by me for almost 2 years, whether he knows it or not.

Go ahead. Judge me. You have no idea what my love entails.

If you think you've heard this story before, trust me - you haven't.

**This is a STANDALONE full-length novel. It is not part of a series, and does not contain a cliffhanger.**]]> 290 Alessandra Torre Nic 0 4.27 2014
author: Alessandra Torre
name: Nic
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at: 2022/02/19
date added: 2022/02/19
shelves:
review:

]]> 25883848
Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome.
2) A person’s undoing
3) Joshua Templeman

Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. And the feeling is mutual.

Trapped in a shared office together 40 (OK, 50 or 60) hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. There’s the Staring Game. The Mirror Game. The HR Game. Lucy can’t let Joshua beat her at anything—especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking.

If Lucy wins this game, she’ll be Joshua’s boss. If she loses, she’ll resign. So why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about Joshua, and dressing for work like she’s got a hot date? After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong.

Maybe Lucy Hutton doesn’t hate Joshua Templeman. And maybe, he doesn’t hate her either. Or maybe this is just another game. ​​]]> 387 Sally Thorne Nic 0 3.93 2016
author: Sally Thorne
name: Nic
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/02/19
shelves:
review:

]]> 58341222 A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover. After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining links to Kenna’s daughter. But if anyone were to discover how Ledger is slowly becoming an important part of Kenna’s life, both would risk losing the trust of everyone important to them. The two form a connection despite the pressure surrounding them, but as their romance grows, so does the risk. Kenna must find a way to absolve the mistakes of her past in order to build a future out of hope and healing.]]> 335 Colleen Hoover 1542025605 Nic 5
I was up until 4:15am reading, Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover. Unfortunately I had to put it down and get some sleep because pulling an all-nighter gets harder as I get older.

I just finished this incredibly endearing story and, WOW! I have loved every book Colleen Hoover has written and, with each book she has blown my mind, but this book…My heart. Right from the first few pages, I knew it would be an unforgettable read.

Gorgeous characters and an angst-filled storyline…no one can destroy my heart one minute, and fill it full the next, like Colleen Hoover can. Have tissues handy because if your eyes aren’t leaking while you read this story, you’re dead inside, lol!

Reminders of Him is everything I hope for in a great read.

*I was provided an advance copy in exchange for an honest review*]]> 4.33 2022
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Nic
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2021/09/15
date added: 2022/01/07
shelves:
review:
5++++++ gorgeous stars!

I was up until 4:15am reading, Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover. Unfortunately I had to put it down and get some sleep because pulling an all-nighter gets harder as I get older.

I just finished this incredibly endearing story and, WOW! I have loved every book Colleen Hoover has written and, with each book she has blown my mind, but this book…My heart. Right from the first few pages, I knew it would be an unforgettable read.

Gorgeous characters and an angst-filled storyline…no one can destroy my heart one minute, and fill it full the next, like Colleen Hoover can. Have tissues handy because if your eyes aren’t leaking while you read this story, you’re dead inside, lol!

Reminders of Him is everything I hope for in a great read.

*I was provided an advance copy in exchange for an honest review*
]]> 52214103
Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission.

Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can’t stop running and moves restlessly from job to job—through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps—trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew.

With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.]]> 304 Michelle Good 1443459194 Nic 5 4.47 2020
author: Michelle Good
name: Nic
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2021/10/26
date added: 2022/01/01
shelves:
review:
I don’t think anyone who has read Five Little Indians by Michelle Good will ever forget these characters and their stories. I definitely feel it should be mandatory reading, hopefully then there will be more conversations, and more understanding, and then we can work to right the wrongs of the past. One of the most thought provoking books I’ve read in a very long time.
]]> 56269012
You're thinking this will be just one more story of the ignored, "big-boned " girl, who sheds her glasses and a few extra pounds and finally attracts the notice of the most popular guy in school.

Except it isn't. Because I'm not unpopular. Not all that ignored. And I love the way I look―just as I am.

Then someone puts my name in for Homecoming Court.

The bigger surprise?

People actually vote for me!

Now, I'm a "princess"―whether I like it or not―but the guy I'm paired with isn't exactly Prince Charming.

Rhys Castle is the strong, silent type who always wears a frown―he's certainly never smiled at me. I'm 99.9% sure he hates being on Court and being my partner, but surprisingly…he doesn't switch when he gets the chance.

Turns out Rhys has a secret―something that makes him run hot and cold throughout the entire three weeks of Homecoming festivities. Whether he's stepping on my feet during dance lessons or gallantly escorting me through the Homecoming parade, I can't get a read on this guy, and for the first time, I find my confidence wavering.

But there's more to Rhys than meets the eye. And the more the spotlight shines on me, I realize there's more to me, too.]]> 320 Cookie O'Gorman 1649370326 Nic 0 to-read 3.83
author: Cookie O'Gorman
name: Nic
average rating: 3.83
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/11/02
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 17454723 No Good Men Among the Living lays bare the workings of America’s longest war and the truth behind its prolonged agony. A thoroughly original exposé of the conflict that is still being fought, it shows just how the American intervention went so desperately wrong.]]> 304 Anand Gopal 0805091793 Nic 5 4.46 2014
author: Anand Gopal
name: Nic
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2021/09/18
date added: 2021/09/18
shelves:
review:
One of the most interesting and informative books I have read about US invasion into Afghanistan, and why it would never be successful. Definitely a must read for anyone who doesn’t understand the Afghan people.
]]> 765629
Mohsen comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, was once a brilliant teacher and is now no longer allowed to leave her home without an escort or covering her face. Intersecting their world is Atiq, a prison keeper, a man who has sincerely adopted the Taliban ideology and struggles to keep his faith, and his wife, Musarrat, who once rescued Atiq and is now dying of sickness and despair.

Desperate, exhausted Mohsen wanders through Kabul when he is surrounded by a crowd about to stone an adulterous woman. Numbed by the hysterical atmosphere and drawn into their rage, he too throws stones at the face of the condemned woman buried up to her waist. With this gesture the lives of all four protagonists move toward their destinies.

Yasmina Khadra brings readers into the hot, dusty streets of Kabul and offers them an unflinching but compassionate insight into a society that violence and hypocrisy have brought to the edge of despair.]]> 195 Yasmina Khadra 1400033764 Nic 0 to-read 3.53 2002
author: Yasmina Khadra
name: Nic
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2002
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/08/28
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 53746807
Smuggled out of the palace by a guard named Shair, Sitara finds her way to the home of a female American diplomat, who adopts her and raises her in America. In her new country, Sitara takes on a new name—Aryana Shepherd—and throws herself into her studies, eventually becoming a renowned surgeon.

New York, 2008: Thirty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana’s world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room—a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryana’s fury and desire for answers—and, perhaps, revenge.]]> 464 Nadia Hashimi 0063008289 Nic 0 to-read 4.27 2021
author: Nadia Hashimi
name: Nic
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/08/28
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 21894411 176 Sayyed Mohammad Akbar Agha 3944214099 Nic 0 to-read 4.50 2014
author: Sayyed Mohammad Akbar Agha
name: Nic
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/08/28
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 22934446
When television producers approached Alan Cumming to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show, he hoped to solve the mystery of his maternal grandfather's disappearance that had long cast a shadow over his family. But this was not the only mystery laid before Alan.

Alan grew up in the grip of a man who held his family hostage, someone who meted out violence with a frightening ease, who waged a silent war with himself that sometimes spilled over onto everyone around him. That man was Alex Cumming, Alan's father, whom Alan had not seen or spoken to for more than a decade when he reconnected just before filming for Who Do You Think You Are? began. He had a secret he had to share, one that would shock his son to his very core and set into motion a journey that would change Alan's life forever.

With ribald humor, wit, and incredible insight, Alan seamlessly moves back and forth in time, integrating stories from his childhood in Scotland and his experiences today as the celebrated actor of film, television, and stage. At times suspenseful, at times deeply moving, but always incredibly brave and honest, Not My Father's Son is a powerful story of embracing the best aspects of the past and triumphantly pushing the darkness aside.]]> 292 Alan Cumming 0062225073 Nic 0 to-read 4.04 2014
author: Alan Cumming
name: Nic
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/08/02
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 55778380 188 Rahela Nayebzadah 198949630X Nic 0 to-read 4.02
author: Rahela Nayebzadah
name: Nic
average rating: 4.02
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/06/02
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 55707640
How far would you go to win? Hyper-competitive people, mind games and a dangerous natural environment combine to make the must-read thriller of the year. Fans of Lucy Foley and Lisa Jewell will be gripped by spectacular debut novel Shiver.

When Milla is invited to a reunion in the French Alps resort that saw the peak of her snowboarding career, she drops everything to go. While she would rather forget the events of that winter, the invitation comes from Curtis, the one person she can't seem to let go.

The five friends haven't seen each other for ten years, since the disappearance of the beautiful and enigmatic Saskia. But when an icebreaker game turns menacing, they realise they don't know who has really gathered them there and how far they will go to find the truth.

In a deserted lodge high up a mountain, the secrets of the past are about to come to light.]]> 432 Allie Reynolds 147227024X Nic 0 to-read 3.77 2020
author: Allie Reynolds
name: Nic
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/05/25
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 49875586 Have you ever been wrong about someone?

Juno was wrong about Winnie Crouch.

Before moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son—the perfect life. Only now that she’s living in their beautiful house, she sees the cracks in the crumbling facade are too deep to ignore.

Still, she isn’t one to judge. After her grim diagnosis, the retired therapist simply wants a place to live out the rest of her days in peace. But that peace is shattered the day Juno overhears a chilling conversation between Winnie and Nigel�

She shouldn’t get involved.

She really ˛őłó´ÇłÜ±ô»ĺ˛Ô’t.

But this could be her chance to make a few things right.

Because if you thought Juno didn’t have a secret of her own, then you were wrong about her, too.]]> 336 Tarryn Fisher 1525810006 Nic 0
*I was provided an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.*]]> 3.44 2020
author: Tarryn Fisher
name: Nic
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2021/04/23
date added: 2021/05/24
shelves:
review:
I have loved every book a Tarryn Fisher has written but I just couldn’t get into The Wrong Family. I won’t give a star rating on this story as I couldn’t finish it, so I there for can’t give a positive or negative review. I will still look forward to what she will be releasing next.

*I was provided an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.*
]]> 56628286 Or the one that matters most...

The atmosphere on board the inaugural non-stop flight from London to Sydney is electric. Numerous celebrities are rumoured to be among the passengers in business class and journalists will be waiting on the ground to greet the plane.

Mina is one of a hand-picked team of flight attendants chosen for the landmark journey. She's trying to focus on the task in hand, and not worry about her troubled five-year-old daughter back at home with her husband. Or the cataclysmic problems in her marriage.

But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination. Someone who needs Mina's assistance and who knows exactly how to make her comply.

It's twenty hours to landing.
A lot can happen in twenty hours...]]> 357 Clare Mackintosh 1728245524 Nic 0 to-read 3.83 2021
author: Clare Mackintosh
name: Nic
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/05/24
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 56614951
There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.

What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped.

For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.

The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.

Enjoy the flight.]]> 304 T.J. Newman 1982177888 Nic 5
From beginning to end, Falling had me on the edge of my seat with my heart in my throat. Full of twists and turns, and anxiety-inducing suspense. Just when you think you know what's coming next, Ms. Newman tosses something else at you! Fab characters and a brilliant plot, Falling kept me engaged and wanting more...Ok, maybe I was a little nervous to find out what would happen next. ;) Definitely one of my favourite reads this year!

If you love suspenseful thrillers, buckle up! Falling by T.J. Newman is a must read for you!

*I received an advanced copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review*]]> 3.79 2021
author: T.J. Newman
name: Nic
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2021/05/23
date added: 2021/05/24
shelves:
review:
Mind blown! When I saw the cover for T.J. Newman's debut release I knew I had to read it. Little did I know what a wild ride I was in for.

From beginning to end, Falling had me on the edge of my seat with my heart in my throat. Full of twists and turns, and anxiety-inducing suspense. Just when you think you know what's coming next, Ms. Newman tosses something else at you! Fab characters and a brilliant plot, Falling kept me engaged and wanting more...Ok, maybe I was a little nervous to find out what would happen next. ;) Definitely one of my favourite reads this year!

If you love suspenseful thrillers, buckle up! Falling by T.J. Newman is a must read for you!

*I received an advanced copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review*
]]> 56269146
Then there’s Josh, the single dad whose daughter attends the elementary school where Layla teaches music. Recently separated, he’s still processing the end of his twenty-year marriage to his high school sweetheart. He chats with Layla every morning at school and finds himself thinking about her more and more.

Equally cautious and confused about dating in a world that favors apps over meeting organically, Layla and Josh decide to be friends with the potential for something more. Sounds sensible and way too simple—but when two people are on the rebound, is it heartbreak or happiness that’s a love song away?

From the bestselling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances.]]> 304 Tracey Garvis Graves 1250235685 Nic 5
Heard It in a Love Song was exactly what my heart needed; a captivating story with gorgeous characters. When it comes to women’s fiction, Tracey Garvis Graves is my go to favourite because of the strong women she writes and the journeys she takes them on. I’m sure many women will be able to relate to Layla’s story.

If you’re looking for a feel good story with swoon worthy dose of romance, this is the book for you.

*I was provided with an advance copy in exchange for an honest review*]]> 3.58 2021
author: Tracey Garvis Graves
name: Nic
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2021/05/01
date added: 2021/05/01
shelves:
review:
I was up until 3am reading, Heard It in a Love Song by Tracey Garvis Graves. Friends, mark your calendars because you want this book!!! November 2nd you can get your grabby hands on this fabulous read.

Heard It in a Love Song was exactly what my heart needed; a captivating story with gorgeous characters. When it comes to women’s fiction, Tracey Garvis Graves is my go to favourite because of the strong women she writes and the journeys she takes them on. I’m sure many women will be able to relate to Layla’s story.

If you’re looking for a feel good story with swoon worthy dose of romance, this is the book for you.

*I was provided with an advance copy in exchange for an honest review*
]]> 14061955 Alternative Cover Edition #1

Darkness never dies.

Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.

The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her—or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.]]> 435 Leigh Bardugo Nic 0 to-read 3.81 2013
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Nic
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/04/23
shelves: to-read
review:

]]>