The Lost Husband by Katherine Center Pages : 304 Genre : Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 4,5/5 What it’s about : When her husband died unexpectedly three years ago, Libby found herself stuck living with her kids at her mom’s place, unable to move forward. Then an invitation lands on Libby’s doorsteps, an offer she surprises herself to accept : to move in with an eccentric aunt she has barely met, and help her with the...

Reached by Ally Condie Pages : 512 Genre : YA Series : Matched, book 2 My Rating : 3/5 From Goodreads : After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything...

The Cottage at Glass Beach by Heather Barbieri Pages : 288 Genre : Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 From the book’s jacket : Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts state history, Nora Cunningham is a picture-perfect political wife and a doting mother. But her carefully constructed life falls to pieces when she, along with the rest of the world, learns of the infidelity of her husband, Malcolm. Humiliated and...

The Lives We Lost by Megan Crewe Pages : 288 Genre : YA, Speculative fiction Series : Fallen World, book 2 My Rating : 3,5/5 From the book’s jacket : A deadly virus has destroyed Kaelyn’s small island community and spread beyond the quarantine. No one is safe. But when Kaelyn finds samples of a vaccine in her father’s abandoned lab, she knows there must be someone, somewhere, who can replicate it. As Kaelyn and her...

Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly Pages : 320 Genre : Mystery Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 What it’s about : With three children and a full time job, Lisa has little time left to breath. It is not rare for her to feel like she is failing as a wife, a friend, and a mother. Then her best friend’s teen daughter disappears while in her care, and all of her insecurities are confirmed by this one fatal mistake....

The Smart One by Jennifer Close Pages : 340 Genre : Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 What it’s about : Weezy’s children aren’t doing too good, it seems; her oldest daughter quit her nursing career for a managing job at J.crew, while her other daughter came back home heavy with debts after breaking off her engagement. Her son, the youngest of the kids, is still in college and acting very secretive. Even though they...

Unbreak my Heart by Melissa Walker Pages : 232 Genre : Contemporary Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 4,5/5 What it’s about : Despite her best efforts, Clementine spent the last year falling for her best friend’s boyfriend. When their special connection was discovered, Clementine was immediately cut off from her group of friends, breaking her heart with guilt. Fortunately – or unfortunately – summer was just around...

The Raft by S.A. Bodeen Pages : 231 Genre : Contemporary Fiction, Survival Stand alone My Rating : 2,5/5 From the back of the book : Robie is an experienced traveler. She’s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the...