Emma And The Love Spell
by Meredith Ireland

This book is awesome ! I like it how the main character named Emma goes trough many problems like her best and only friend moving and someone knows that she is aa witch even tough she is not supposed to tell ANYONE not even her best friend which is hard . It is cool to see what happens in the next chapter and you just want to read more of it !
 
 

The Demon Of Unrest
by Erik Larson

A detailed history of the events leading up to the Civil War. Fort Sumpter, the election of Lincoln, South seceding from the North. A lot taken from journals, diaries and letters.
 
 

THE RESORT
by Sara Ochs

Several mysterious deaths start the story told by Sara Ochs in her first novel, THE RESORT. The resort, on a small remote island in Thailand is home to travelers from around the world who have made their way to the island and decided to stay on as staff at the hotel, bar, and dive shop. Added to the mix are various guests who arrive from time to time ... two of which have never left. Both are newly dead. Accident, suicide, or murder? Not everything and certainly not everyone is who and what they seem ... I enjoyed the novel very much and hope for more by this new author.
 
 

The God Of The Woods
by Liz Moore

An amazing read this summer. Read carefully and keep track of the changing perspectives and timeline, but it is written so well.
 
 

The Paradise Problem
by Christina Lauren

4.5 stars.
 
 

The Opposite Of Everyone
by Joshilyn Jackson

I've enjoyed this book. This book was about a women who's lived a very unconventional and challenging life and carved her own path. But her past comes back to haunt her when she finds out about all her half siblings she didn't know she had after a strange cryptic letter from her estranged mother who is dying. As she learns more about the existence of her half siblings, she is flooded with memories of being separated from her family and put in a foster home and finding a way of surviving and trying to reconnect with her mother as a child. One quote that stuck with me was on pg 220 when our protagonist says "I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own past footsteps as an echo... I turned to look, their was only silence and darkness." Our protagonist in this story is flawed. But the author makes it clear that every part of her, even the mean and ugly parts, are there out of necessity; to protect her from things that happened in the past. When looking at our past we see versions of ourselves that are so different to who we are now it feels like your looking at a different person. But its all part of our story.
 
 

The Nature Of The Beast
by Louise Penny

35. The nature of the beast by Louise Penny. Nine year old Laurent frequently cries, wolf to his friends and neighbours in the village of Three Pines. When he goes missing, inspector Gamache must investigate. Could Laurent be telling the truth?
 
 

The Heiress
by Rachel Hawkins

I listened to this book in less than three days. It was so riveting. Years earlier baby Ruby McTavish goes missing in the woods and is found months later “kidnapped” and living with a poor farmer’s family. Ruby’s life is filled with heartache and four unlucky marriages. Ruby then adopts Cam. Camden McTavish sole heir to the McTavish fortune and the luckiest kid alive, ran away from his home and family leaving all the memories and bad blood behind him. He met his wife and live Jules during this time. He gets a call from his cousin Ben to come home to fix the mansion and take care of finances. Camden comes home and the whole sordid story of the kidnapping, brutal happenings in the family and just how far a McTavish can get away with by throwing money at it. I definitely recommend this book.
 
 

The Summer we Started Over
by Nancy Thayer

Eddie Grant left her job in NYC to go home to Nantucket to help her sister with their father. She also meets up with an old love. Barret plans to open up a store and their father is still in a funk after their mother left and their brother died. Of course there's romance and drama and happy endings.
 
 

Other peoples love story
by Jocelyn Jackson

47. Someone Else’s Love Story by Jocelyn Jackson. Shandi Pierce, a single mom, and is struggling to finish college is caught in a hold up of a store. She falls for William who steps between her child and the gunman. She imagines she is in love. William a geneticist on the spectrum is struggling with his own demons and loss of a child. When she learns the truth she says, “I’m sick of other people’s love stories!”