en-US Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:38:03 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7528212670 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:38:03 -0700 /review/show/7528212670 Shannon gave 4 stars to The Game Is Afoot: A Shadow Holmes and Watson Mystery (Kindle Edition) by David Raymond
What a funny crazy mysterious story! Very entertaining. Having it based in my home state of Florida adds to the fun, because really, who doesn't love a crazy Florida story!? The characters are charming and funny as well. Based around the well-known Sherlock Holmes, the characters are relatives on an adventure to save lives and sell homes.

Well worth the read for mystery lovers!
]]> Review7509180191 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 06:31:48 -0700 /review/show/7509180191 Shannon gave 5 stars to Catch the Kiss (Chicago Anchors, #2) by L.B. Dunbar
I am noticing a pattern with books by this author: she writes one, I love it. She writes another, I love it. She writes another and I love that one too. She writes, I love! Such a great pattern in my opinion!

Bolan and Ruthie are so stinking cute and sexy and sweet and I love them too! Bolan is trying to change his playboy, bad boy reputation. He wants to play baseball. His agents think he needs a wife, perhaps even a family. Ruthie is the one he didn’t know that got away. She is signed up to help Bolan with his image. Little did they know fake marriages can lead to real feelings. But does their happiness have a time limit like the ball game?

Dunbar writes realistic love stories and I am all for it! This new series, The Chicago Anchors is all that and more.
]]> Review7509126088 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 06:06:58 -0700 /review/show/7509126088 Shannon gave 4 stars to Crossroads of Love (Hicks Creek #1) by Kris Abbott
This book provided all the feels just in the prologue and the first chapter alone!! So happy that this is Book 1 in this series, A Hicks Creek Novel. Can’t wait to see who is next in this little town!

Gavin and Lena seemed destined to be apart from the very beginning. But death has a way of bringing people together as well as letting all the secrets out! These two characters have enough secrets for everyone, the real question though is do they have enough fight and love for everyone?

Definitely recommend this book. Well written and easy to follow characters and storyline.
]]> Review7491944028 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:27:57 -0700 /review/show/7491944028 Shannon gave 4 stars to Hothead (Love Burns Series Book 4) by Isobel Reed
This is book 4 in the Love Burns series. It is a cute story that was easy to read, without even having read the entire series. I was able to understand and follow this storyline as each book is its own adventure. Already looking to read the others in this series.

Our main character Luke is a hotheaded firefighter with hidden feelings about life and those people in his life. Luke has an easy time having one-night stands while not having relationships or feelings. Bella is a friend of a family member that Luke didn't know too much about. Bella is
even tempered but Luke seems to bring out her sassiness more often than not. When these two come together they are hot headed, sassy and sexy together! ]]> ReadStatus9046614428 Sun, 09 Feb 2025 08:17:55 -0800 /review/show/7305349578 Shannon is currently reading Chasing the Flames by R.C. Wynne
]]> AuthorFollowing107160996 Mon, 03 Feb 2025 04:54:45 -0800 Review7283859157 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:31:44 -0800 /review/show/7283859157 Shannon gave 5 stars to Sterling Fight (Sterling Falls, #5) by L.B. Dunbar
National Dunbar Day!

This story is so super cute and sweet and so perfect. Some books, some authors, and some stories are just right. This is one of those authors. This is one of those books. In fact this series is just right.

The Sylver siblings may have had a rough start with the passing of their mother and the absence of their father after her death, but they are strong, admirable and so very loved.

Young Judd Sylver needs a friend, so on National Make a New Friend Day, when he was 11 years old, 8 year old Genie asked him to be her new friend. However, kids are mean. Friends the two did not become. Too much was happening in Judd’s young life for him to understand that he really needed a friend like Genie. Fast forward over the years and the two are more acquaintances than friends. After 20 plus years of no contact, these two still have eyes or rather a snap-crack-pop for each other.

The way these two reconnect is nothing short of sweet and everything worth fighting for.
]]> Review7283821208 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:21:00 -0800 /review/show/7283821208 Shannon gave 5 stars to Sterling Streak (Sterling Falls, #3) by L.B. Dunbar
I really don't know if this author can write a bad story! Sterling Streak is so very good, so very fun. For sure a home run!

Ford Sylver is a recently single father, a baseball star, a Sylver brother. But he is also tired, lost and oh so vulnerable. Ford is easy to fall for and by Chapter 1 I am all in! His loneliness and longing seals the deal:
�...all I'd wanted was my person. That one woman who had faith in me, believed in me, and loved me.�
This story starts with Ford waking up from a night he clearly forgot, too many drinks trying to chase away the pain. However, what he doesn’t remember the most is the girl he drank with,the girl who will become so very important to him. Cadence.
Cadence is a music star who is not out of her head with fame. She is someone who makes her own choices, has a few life experiences, not all good, and she is lonely too.

I love books that make sport references and references that work: “We accepted that love sometimes has field error, like a dropped ball or a missed hit, but together we could play the game any way we wished.�

Highly recommend this author, this book and this entire series!
]]> Review7192700979 Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:43:43 -0800 /review/show/7192700979 Shannon gave 5 stars to A Mistletoe Christmas (Kindle Edition) by R.C. Wynne
Super cute, super sexy Christmas story. Freja and Cooper's relationship explodes from their very first meeting. No slow burn here.
The Christmas season is supposed to be a time of joy and celebration but when Cooper and his sister arrive in town looking for a way to earn money and start a new life, Cooper is surprised by the less than stellar welcome from Freja. Coop soon learns that the town and Mistletoe Farms is Freja’s sole reason for living. Freja doesn’t believe there is enough room for two Christmas tree sellers and she is determined to shut Cooper down, well his tree lot that is. A misunderstanding leads to more Christmas spirit than any Grinch can handle. But will it be enough for Cooper and Freja to make amends?
This story is a quick, easy and fun story. Definitely give it a try! ]]> ReadStatus8839711762 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:16:40 -0800 /review/show/6797958426 Shannon finished reading It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us Collection by Colleen Hoover
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