Tag: reader life

Book Review, Fiction, Romance

Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey ~ Book Review

Morgan

Avon Books
Romance
Release Date: March 1, 2022
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪

I loved It Happened One Summer and was excited for another light, steamy story in the Bellinger Sisters’ universe. I really enjoy the small fishing town of Westport and the tight knit community it fosters, so I was thrilled when Hannah ended up there for work. She decides to crash with Fox Thornton while she’s there, a notorious flirt who she has befriended, largely over text, since her last visit.

The build up of Fox and Hannah’s relationship and their individual concern about ruining their friendship felt realistic to me and kept me on my toes. I couldn’t wait for them to finally get together. I did think there were some very dramatic hot and cold situations, but that feels like more a product of the genre than this specific story.

I really enjoyed getting to delve into Hannah’s work life and her career aspirations and how prominently that played into her storyline and her motivations. This added a lot more to her character and I liked seeing how Fox supported her.

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Book Review, Fiction, mystery

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley ~ Book Review

Morgan

William Morrow
Mystery
Release Date: February 22, 2022
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪

I love a thriller with a creepy, atmospheric, anthropomorphic setting. When Jess arrives to visit her brother Ben at his new apartment, that’s exactly what she finds in his building. What she doesn’t find is Ben. Jess begins to question the other residents, trying to ascertain what could have happened between her last phone message from Ben and his disappearance.

There were a lot of characters, each of whom narrated different chapters, and it was hard for me to keep track of them all. Getting so many points of view also made the story move really slowly, since we saw how every character perceived the same events.

I will say that the sinister activities at the heart of this story were very unique compared to the numerous other thrillers I’ve read, but I would definitely classify this as more of a ‘mystery’ than a thriller (there’s a very distinct difference in my mind between the two).

The setting and character motivations of The Paris Apartment were interesting, but I wished things moved faster.

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