A. L. Brooks (1)

Jenny is a PA whose boss is leaving for the West Coast and the company that she works for has just been sold to a bigger one. She and three other PAs (two from the bigger company and her and another one from her company) get thrown into a survivor sort of competition. They have a big event going on on Dec. 23rd, and, after that, Derek their boss will choose three of them to stay and one to be fired.

Olivia is one of those other PAs, and her story is the most complicated in the novel for sure. She's married, except, not so much. And, through the whole novel she also just seemed much older than Jenny. Not sure if that was on purpose or not.

Jenny and Olivia don't have the greatest start. Olivia being a bit cold and Jenny not knowing how she will fit into the new situation she finds herself in. I was a little worried that the story would stay quite antagonistic, because, at the beginning it was intensely antagonistic, but, thankfully, Brooks wrote a slow change that worked perfectly for the story (phew), and, by the end I was hating the people I was supposed to detest and liking those I was supposed to like.

I was given this ARC by the publisher in exchange for an Honest Review.… (plus d'informations)

A really fun read! I was impressed by the variety of the stories on the theme of women, books and romance. A meet-cute in a bookstore ... a closeted '50s housewife trying not to let on that she's already familiar with the lesbian pulp novels her bookclub is experimenting with ... childhood sweethearts who bonded over a shared copy of Little Women reuniting decades later thanks to the efforts of a rare book finder and a helpful librarian ... two widows working through their grief and beginning to move on together ... an author picking up her biggest fan as a hitchhiker while she's fighting writer's block ... and more, but I wouldn't want to give it all away.

(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review)… (plus d'informations)

This was so enjoyable.

It took place in the A.L. Brooks Universe and there was actually quite a bit of story with the characters from "Write Your Own Script", Maggie and Tamsyn.

And then there's Carmen. She is straight. Maybe... But, when she meets Ash (Carmen's friend Felicity gets a tattoo from Ash) something shifts. She starts falling for Ash. And despite Ash's best efforts (because she's had a previous bad experience with a questioning woman) she starts falling in love with the older Carmen too.

It reminded me a little of Lifetime's "An Unexpected Love" movie (now I want to watch the movie again, c'mon Lifetime help me out, maybe they'll do it in June), not to mention the Kerry/Kim relationship on ER.

I loved the secondary characters like Sophie and Felicity just as much as Carmen and Ash. And, how all the secondary and primary characters' stories worked so well together. A great read.

I was given this ARC by the publisher in exchange for an Honest Review.… (plus d'informations)

I was given this ARC by the publisher in exchange for an Honest Review.

Morgan is a pro golfer who has a problem. She keeps choking and losing majors (the last 3). She has put a lot of pressure on herself and she has additional pressure because her father was a famous golfer as well (until her retired).

And then Adrienne comes in as a producer of a docu-film and that adds even more pressure. But, Morgan and Adrienne also find themselves falling for the other. But since they also both have most definite broken hearts that make them wary of a new relationship. Oh, and they have an 18 year age difference (31 and 49).

It was a fun romance. I liked the subplot with Morgan and her Mom too, it was perfect, and the one with Morgan and her Dad was good too (so good that it had me wincing).

It was an awesome and fast read too. I didn't want to put it down.… (plus d'informations)