Audiobook Review: How To Walk Away by Katherine Centre #review #Macmillan

Blurb Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in one tumultuous moment. In

Review: The Forever Gift by Brooke Harris #review #bookreview

Blurb My hands are shaking as my fingers curl around the small, neatly wrapped box. There’s a tag dangling front he centre of the red bow which says Love from Kayla in her beautiful, swirly handwriting. I read over the three words countless times, tracing the letters with my fingertip. How is this possible? Heather’s

Review: Mixed Blessings by Danielle Steele #bookreview #bookblog

Blurb Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas are a California couple who seem to have it all, and after their wedding, Diana teases that she will make a baby on their honeymoon. But long afterwards, she is still not pregnant. As they wait out each month with anticipation, only to be disappointed, they are forced to

Review: Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf #bookreview #bookblog #littlemercies

Blurb Veteran social worker Ellen Moore has seen the worst side of humanity; the vilest acts one person can commit against another. She is a fiercely dedicated children’s advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined, threatening

Review: Messy, Wonderful Us by Catherine Isaac @CatherineIsaac #bookreview #bookblog @SimonSchusterAU

Blurb You never know what life will throw at you.  You just need to know who to turn to for help. One morning in early summer, a man and woman wait to board a flight to Italy.  Allie has lived a careful, focused existence. But now she has unexpectedly taken leave from her job as an academic

Review: Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer #bookblog #bookreview @HachetteAUS @KelRimmerWrites

Blurb The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister’s voice in years. Annie is a drug addict, a thief, a liar—and in trouble, again. Lexie has always bailed Annie out, given her money, a place to sleep, sent her to every kind of rehab. But this time, she’s not

Review: Best of my Love by Susan Mallery #bookblog @SusanMallery #bookreview

Blurb To overcome her painful past, baker Shelby Gilmore goes on the hunt for a friend—a male friend—to convince her stubborn psyche that men can be trusted. But where in a town as small as Fool’s Gold will the petite blonde find a guy willing to not date her? Dark, charming Aidan Mitchell puts the

Review: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood #bookreview #bookblog

Blurb As the daughter of a meth dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Struggling to raise her little brother, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible “adult” around. She finds peace in the starry Midwestern night sky above the fields behind her house. One night everything changes when she witnesses

Review: The Courage Tree by Diane Chamberlain #bookblog #bookreview @DianeChamberlain

Blurb Eight-year-old Sophie Donohue just wanted to be like every other little girl. Which is why her mother, Janine, reluctantly agreed to let her go on the weekend camping trip with her Brownie troop. But when Janine arrives to pick up Sophie after the trip, her daughter is not with the others. Somehow, along the

review: The Book of Dreams by Nina George @SimonSchusterAU #bookreview #bookblog

Blurb Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the