Review: The Strangers We Know - Pip Drysdale - December 2019 This past week has been a bit of a slow reading week for me, but I did manage to clear a couple of books off my bookshelf including The Strangers We Know by Pip Drysdale. In this book, we first meet Charlie who has broken up with her longtime boyfriend Josh and mourning it in the bar. Here she meets Oliver and ends up going home with him. The couple have a whirlwind romance and are heavily in love. Life is perfect and the pair get married and things are going great. That is until Charlie sees on her friend's dating app a picture of her husband - it can't be, but she knows the picture as it was taken on their honeymoon. As the book goes along, Charlie starts to get suspicious of her husband. But what happens when her suspicions get the better of her especially since he's always travelling? More so, when she catfishes her husband on the app she starts talking to him. When Charlie confronts Oliver and he denies it, t...

Review: Good Husbands - Cate Ray - June 2022 I have to admit with this book, I didn't have a high expectation as a friend had read it and said she found it similar to Anatomy of a Scandal and that she didn't like the way the ending fell and that it was a slow burn. For me, I was most worried about the slow burn part as I prefer my stories fast-paced. I need to be pulled in almost immediately if not straightaway. This book, surprised me as I was drawn in from the first page and the book, I could see why my friend thought it was a slow burn but surprisingly it worked for the story itself. The book starts with three different wives receiving a letter from a girl who claims that 30 years ago roughly her mother was raped by three guys and those three guys are now the three women's husbands. The girl is dying and with no other family and claiming that one of the three is her dad, she has left the contents of her storage shed to them which includes her mother's diary. Each o...

Love can be a gamble. Title:   Mail-Order Husband Author: Theresa Oliver Series:  Whiskey River Brides #2 Genre: Historical Romance Release Date:  March 24, 2018 Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing Cover Designer: RMGraphX  Available now!  Amazon US:  http://amzn.to/2D4n4Wx All other links:  books2read.com/whiskey-river2 She wants to change the rules. He wants to play the role of protector. Together, Madison and Wyatt will gamble it all for love. Despite her beauty and charm, Madison is single and a little lost in the bustle of Whiskey River. Declining a less-than-suitable offer from the town’s resident terror, Madison needs protection. Forget mail-order brides, she’s on a mission to discover a would-be husband. Thousands of miles due east in New York City, debonair gambler Wyatt Nash is lucky in cards. He soon finds himself disenchanted by city life and those quick to accuse him of cheating. So, he decides ...