Review:A Thousand Boy Kisses - Tillie Cole - March 2016 This book has been one that I have wanted and been meaning to read for years, ever since it was first released, however as life happens and all readers know - new books are released and others take priority and they slowly get forgotten about until they don't as it pops back up on your radar and you are like I am going to read it now. That was Tillie Cole's A Thousand Boy Kisses and OMG I did not know too much about it what an emotional ride it would take me on it packs the emotional punch. The first death happens earlier on in the book which sets up the theme of A Thousand Boy Kisses between best friends Poppy and Rune. Then one day when the pair are 15 years old - Rune's family ends up returning to Norway. During this time, something happens and Poppy cuts off all contact with Rune. Expecting never to see him again but alas the family moved back next door two years later and they are now 17 years old. Rune has cha...

When All is Said and Done Christy Hayes Publication date: December 5th 2023 Genres: Women’s Fiction A heartbreaking novel about the sacrifices we make for love. After an unstable childhood, marriage isn’t just a promise to Dustin Carver, it’s his lifeline. He and Tegan grew up together, fell in love, and planned their perfect life. When the future they imagined gets derailed by her demanding law career, their marriage slowly slides off the rails. Tegan can’t believe her husband took her threat of a separation seriously and walked away without a backward glance. Heartbroken and embarrassed, she covers for his absence with lies. Lies she tells herself about her career. Lies she tells her family about her marriage. And lies she’s yet to confess to her husband about a secret she kept while he was away. When Dustin finally returns, she’s running on fumes and her lies are about to be exposed. Seven weeks in Key West licking his wounds and watching his best friend fall in love i...

Review: Underneath the Sycamore Tree - B. Celeste - September 2019 This book had been sitting on my bookshelf to read and finally last week, I got around to reading it boy this does pack the emotional punch as part of it is a heartbreaking read as this book contains a lot of angst and a huge amount of grief and the different ways that grief can affect a person. Also, a few ways that having someone with a terminal illness can creep in and take over your life and those around you. I don't normally cry in books, but I did find myself, especially in that last chapter tearing up as some of the book hit home a little too close as the main character Emery is dying and then she starts suffering from kidney failure as her main symptom and she had signs like she had put on a lot of weight but turned out to be water weight from the kidney damage and at the moment, it flashed my mind back a couple of weeks ago when I saw my sister who was diagnosed with renal cancer and it had triggered kidne...

When the Rivers Rise Joey Jones Publication date: November 10th 2020 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense High school sweethearts, Niles and Eden shared a once-in-a-lifetime kind of love until an accident—and Eden’s subsequent addiction to pain medication—tore them apart. Now divorced, their son Riley is Niles’s whole world, and he’ll do anything to keep him safe. In constant pain, chronically tired, and resentful of Riley’s relationship with his dad, Eden is a shadow of the woman she once was. When she meets Kirk, a charismatic drummer who makes her feel alive again, she’s torn between evacuating with Riley before a hurricane hits and the exciting new life that beckons. Reese has never quite gotten over the death of her father, a cop who was shot in the line of duty. Now a detective herself, and the only special operations officer on the East Ridge, Tennessee, police force without children, she volunteers for an assignment in Eastern North Carolina to help as Hurr...

  A Love Letter From the Girls Who Feel Everything Authors: Brittainy C. Cherry & Kandi Steiner Release Date: September 13, 2018 Bestselling authors Brittainy C. Cherry and Kandi Steiner come together for the first time in an emotional compilation of poetry and prose. Written and collected over the course of more than two years, A Love Letter from the Girls Who Feel Everything is an intimate, honest, and raw assemblage of two women’s feelings in a modern world that often quiets any kind of emotion past indifference. Discussing themes of love, worth, loss and hope, A Love Letter from the Girls Who Feel Everything is a journey of discovery and healing. “We are the girls who feel everything. And this is our love letter. To you, to them, to us, to the world, to no one at all. Whether it’s the brightest, sunniest day where everything is perfect, or the darkest, dreariest night of rain where life seems unbearable — we have lived it, we have survived it, and w...