Feb 26 Unplanned by Mary Sue Jackson

  

 

Unplanned by Mary Sue Jackson

In this story we find Caitlin has returned to Poplar and she's sitting at a bar after the bridal shower. A man wants her attention but Brian a long lost love steps in and guides him out of the building, saving her. They realize they know one another and will spend time finding out what each have been up to since college days.  Adult situations. 

Love that she wants to return to TX where she and her friend will be getting a tattoo shop and she will have a job then.  Problem is she is staying in town for a bit til she earns some money to get the shop going. Her ex stole all her money and she won't tell the police yet. 

She ends up at Brian's house because she won't go to her parents. They get along just fine each going their own day every day. She meets others in town and they take her for a horse ride where they end up in a flowered field. She loves it and starts taking phoots that she knows she will use in her paintings and tattoo designs.

Brian is so busy with permits and the rodeo is coming to town and his new found brother will be retiring after the show from the rodeo.

Love how most everyone is there to help one another. Some like her parents shun her verbally in public. Brian's mother will throw a celebration for them.

So many twists and turns and she doesn't want to hold Brian back from his devotion to the town. She also wants her tattoo shop......

Love how it all comes together and she wishes her brother was able to be around because he was the lucky one to get away from their parents....

Can't wait to read more form this another. Love the whole series.

Received this review copy from the author via Booksprout and this is my honest opinion.

 

Feb 24 The Rodeo Cowboy’s Redemption: A friends-to-lovers cowboy romance (The Miles of Montana Book 3) by Kyra Jacobs

  

 

The Rodeo Cowboy’s Redemption: A friends-to-lovers cowboy romance (The Miles of Montana Book 3) by Kyra Jacobs

This story starts out with Norah and she's a designer and is having the cabins redone. She didn't tell the family but she's won a spot in the renovations to be in the BigSky magazine. This will help her work step up a lot.

She is going to work with Donovon but he gets injured and sends his son to take over.  Rhett's done with the rodeo and is considering on doing repairs for his dads company.  He has to work with Norah  and they once had a history. The past comes to light: he had left a letter for her in her truck. She never got it and he never tells her what he had written. They do pick up where they left off but then Rhett  is told to leave and his dad had packed his bags.

She has no clue as to where he went, his cousins in another state maybe.... Like how this ends, didn't see it ending as such, So unpredictable. Love family interjections. Funny at times.

Lot going on but easy to keep track of it all.

Received this review copy from Tule Publishing via BookSprout and this is my honest opinion. 

Book Review: Corsican Christmas caper a holiday story by dave bartell

 

Corsican Christmas caper a holiday story  by dave bartell

This story starts out as a screenplay with acts. Love the setting of the holidays and the family is putting everything they have into th mix for the big party. The food, fashion, decorations and a special events, an unveiling.

Problem is the item has been borrowed when it was unveiled and now they have to track down who took it and put it  back.  Love the strategy and how they solve the riddles at every clue they find along the way. Sounded so simple to divide into groups and each group to a room.

Short story but well worth the read.

 

Book review: The Organ Broker by Stu Strumwasser

  

 

The Organ Broker by Stu Strumwasser

Didn't think I'd enjoy this story as much as I did.l

Starts with NY Jack who is an organ broker. The story starts with his caree and we learn all about the other side of things. SO very realistic it sounds like today's world. Very detailed descriptions you can see the scene in front of you.

Lots of travel that was fascinating to me and hearing about situations why they were there was another story in itself.   I can picture my relatives who work in the OR being involved in the organs and who gets what.  Some are young kids that he makes a deal with them so he can make a profit  by selling to the billionaires that can afford them. Like hearing about his connection to a client that he has personal ties to.  Like hearing the realization of relationships over the years and how it really effects him.

Emotiona and  thought provoking  

Feb 19 The Cowboy's Least Likely Bride Book 1 of Family Matters of Cowboy Point by Megan Crane

  

The Cowboy's Least Likely Bride Book 1 of Family Matters of Cowboy Point by Megan Crane

This story is a bit sideways for me, LOL  Starts out with one woman calling another woman. One is the wife of Patrick the other has a family with the other but not married.

They talk to one another and see the comparisons. They agree it's time, now that Patrick is dead, to have the whole family meet one another.

Some of the children look like a twin of the other woman's. 

Like how they kids just decide to get along. They are actually able to talk and discuss their private thoughts with one another.  I can truly see this happening but I know of no one it has happened to personally.

Just seems a bit out there but it's a close knit community.

Love how they are able to hold it all together through thick and thin and then some...

Received this review copy from Tule Publishing via BookSprout and this is my honest opinion.

 

Feb 10 The Lost Sheenan Book 6 of Taming of the Sheenans by Jane Porter

  

 

The Lost Sheenan Book 6 of Taming of the Sheenans by Jane Porter

This is the last of this series but another is in the works using some of the same characters.

Starts out with Jet who's staying at her sisters B&B in Montana while she works at the one room schoohouse taking care of a handful of children from different grades, temporarily.

Once the last teacher gives birth and comes back the district may decide the children need to go to school via the bus to another town so she may be out of work.

Story also follow Shane who's paying to stay at the Sheenan family home while he writes.  His past makes him believe he is one of the Sheenans' but proof is hard to come by, although the DNA proves he is one of them.

They go out as she's fascinated that he's the author of the books she's read and loved them.

He's just there trying to make friends with them but they are not very welcome.  He believes his mother's ghost still resides at the ranch as he investigates more clues about his past life.

The Sheenan members now know Shane is there to write a story of a family murder and they don't want him to investigate.

They post eviction papers on the house so he's only got 30 days left now and not enough time to write the story he's been paid for. 

Jet really likes and feels comfortable and natural with Shane, but many others see them and tell her to stay away from him...

Like this book because you are made welcome with the characters even if you've not read the previous books there's enough information about everybody to understand what's going on.

Like also the detailed descriptions as the author writes to make you feel like you can see what's before you-the scenery, nature, sounds, smells, etc.

Some details of the past murders unfolds. Like the explanations of all the tattoos, so interesting, a story in themselves.  Loved sight seeing tours of Butte, sounds like a treasure to see all the preservation.

Jet knew she might have some important information as she's talked to a woman who lived there at the time of the murders. She knows she should just walk away from it all...

Excerpt from the next book-in the new series but a continuoation of this series as well is included.

Received this review copy from Tule Publishing via BookSprout and this is my honest opinion. 

Book Review: A Heart in Bloom by Deanna Lilly

  

 

A Heart in Bloom by Deanna Lilly

In this story we find Grace a florist and she's being kicke out of her apartment and the business, the floral shop that she runs. She has it on good authority to check the town net to them as the same family runs it, just not so strict. Love that she finds the town lovely and how she is welcomed into the community. Everybody does help one another.

She's introduced to Allen, an ex military guy who is now the lead on renovations in the town. Zach the owner wants to keep the town in the same historical decade.

They all help her, even help her get her old things from the previous store and move it there for her.

Danger shows up as an ex fiancée and demands she show up for a wedding picture with him so he can get his inheritance. She refuses while Allen is ther and she is relieved.

Love the events the town puts on and just how festive they really are.

Great story and can't wait to read the rest in the series.