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  • Bobbie Faye’s Very (very, very, very) Bad Day Review

    I found this in my search for my comedoc mysteries like Stephanie Plum. While funny, I found it to be more like a comedic action flick on steroids.

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  • Things You Won’t Say Review

    This was a very timely novel in light of police brutality in the news and everywhere else. 

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  • The Opposite of Me Review

    This was told from a one person perspective of Lindsey. Lindsey is the good girl, the smart one, the rational one in the shadow of her beautiful twin sister. Lindsey loves her sister but acknowledges that they will never be truely close.  So Lindsey works her adult life trying to become the VP of her…

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  • The Best of Us Review

    This is told through four alternating views founded on the themes female friendship and marriage, as you can tell it is a reoccurring base in her books.  Three college friends are invited by their old dorky college friend, Dwight who has become a computer millionaire. The millionaire and his wife decided to have a little…

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  • Skipping a Beat Review

    Now Skipping a Beat was very different from the last two Sarah Pekkanen books I read since it was about one person and solely a love story. An heartfelt bittersweet love story. It’s like The Vow and I think it should become a movie too.  The main character is Julia, who has been faithfully married…

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  • These Girls Review

    This book is about three roommates, Cate, Abby and Renee all as they navigate love and work as 20-30 somethings. Once again, Sarah brings realism and heart to her work as she weaves their lives together. They make mistakes, they hurt people, but they also stand by each other and that’s what makes me love…

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  • The Perfect Neighbors Review

    The Perfect Neighbors by Sarah Pekkanen is the first book I’ve read by the author and it was so good, I went on to read the rest of her realistic fiction catalogue. At least the ones available in my library.

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  • Twisted Tales: Tale as Old as Time Review

    Ah, one of my favorites, and Braswell did a lovely job with her twist of “What if Belle’s mother cursed the beast?” Yes, everyone Belle’s mother is alive and she’s the infamous Enchantress that kicks the whole story off.

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  • Twisted Tales: Straight On Till Morning Review

    Braswell explores the scenario of ”What if Wendy first traveled to Neverland with Captain Hook?” which is a great twist indeed. Here Wendy, John and Michael never went on their grand adventure to Neverland after Nana catches Pan’s shadow. Rather Nana caught Pan’s shadow but he has never appeared to them. Now years later, Wendy…

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  • Take the Monkeys and Run Review

    The first book in the Barbara Marr Mysteries series by Karen Cantwell is just as funny as advertised. This comedic mystery follows movie lover and housewife, Barbara Marr as she stews with the inexplicable development of her husband moving out of the house because “he needs space.” Yeah, I’d be furious too if my husband…

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