Another delightful installment in the charming Little Duck Pond series! This time, we dive deeper into Maddy’s life as she prepares for her dream Christmas wedding and embarks on a magical hen do in Lapland. As someone who’s always dreamed of visiting Lapland, I found every description a joy to read—it was almost like being…
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Ask Your Mom if I’m Real by Lani Lynn Vale | Book Review
Two or three pages in and I felt like I hated Lani Lynn Vale. I even sent her a message on Instagram telling her. I was so angry but like I said I knew that Dixie’s story was going to be sad. If you have been a reader of the Dixie Wardens MC series you…
Christmas at Holly Tree Cottage by Eliza J Scott | Book Review
This heartwarming story weaves together two timelines, exploring Romy’s past and present as she returns to her childhood village and rents her former family home. It’s immediately clear that she and local farmer Finn Tindall share unfinished business. Despite the twenty-one years since Romy left, their undeniable chemistry lingers. Romy’s return reveals the struggles she…
Stuck in Second Gear by Carmen Reid | Book Review
This heartwarming story centers on family, resilience, and starting anew after divorce and loss. When Lucie’s daughter can’t make it to her father’s wedding in France due to a train strike, Lucie reluctantly agrees to drive her daughter and nephew, Deva, to the wedding. What starts as a simple road trip turns into an unexpected…
The Silver-Haired Sisterhood by Judy Leigh | Book Review
Judy Leigh delivers a heartwarming gem with The Silver-Haired Sisterhood, a celebration of living life to the fullest at any age. With a seventy-seven-year-old leading lady and a vibrant cast of similarly spirited friends—like the indomitable eighty-year-old Rose—this story reminds us that age is just a number and it’s our outlook on life that truly…
Mix-Up Under The Mistletoe by Margaret Amatt | Book Review
Rafe Harrington runs a successful travel company and enjoys a stylish city apartment. With a loyal and hardworking team by his side, he’s shocked to discover that a London-based rival is sending spies to undermine competing businesses. While investigating the company’s website, Rafe notices a captivating smile among the staff photos—that of Tilly Thorpe—and finds…
Pendragon by Peter Gibbons | Book Review
This is a much more realistic retelling of King Arthur. In this book Arthur doesn’t come across as a myth so much as as a regular man. If that makes any sort of sense. In other stories there is this unreal quality about him but here we see him more human than myth. Peter Gibbons…
Immortal Rising by Lynsay Sands | Book Review
Stephanie and her sister are attacked and unwillingly turned into immortals and Stephanie gains the ability to hear others’ thoughts. However, unlike other immortals, she can’t turn it off. To help her cope, her new family sets her up in a remote house, thinking isolation will give her peace. But they don’t know her powers…
Staged River by Heather Grey | Book Review
I love a good unplanned pregnancy book. I am one of those readers who just enjoys this plot, maybe it is because I can’t get pregnant myself. I don’t know but when done right this plotline works well and let me tell you that Heather Grey did it right! It wasn’t happy that suddenly we…
A Skye Full of Stars by Sue Moorcroft | Book Review
In this one we meet Ezzie Wynter and follow her story which includes being newly promoted to managing Rothach Hall on the Isle of Skye for the Larsson family. She is preparing for winter and Christmas as the entire family is coming to stay. While Grete, the matriarch of the family is the first to…
