Note: There will be spoilers in this review. In general, I like Elin Hildebrand. Sometimes she’s a little schlocky and a little too saccharine, and I feel like all her characters probably wear Lily Pulitzer all the time, but overall, I consider her a pretty good writer. If I see something of hers haven’t read, I usually pick it up, because she’s generally a sure thing. Except this one. I just couldn’t fall in love with it. Set on the island of Nantucket, The Matchmaker […]
Needs a little more Grandma Mazur
I love Stephanie Plum, and sometimes I go back and read Janet Evanovich’s earlier works. It’s fun to see where she started out, and her “red-hot screwball comedies” are fluff in the purest form. And sometimes, between science projects and history projects and volleyball games and basketball practice and, you know, my stuff too, this mama needs some mindless fluff. Manhunt finds us in the wilds of Alaska in a tiny town outside of Fairbanks, where Alexandra Scott, her giant dog Bruno, and her tiny […]
Don’t You…Forget About Me
Sometimes I look at parents who have missing children and I wonder how they can continue. How can you sit at your desk, answering the phone or dealing with a client or paying the bills when you have no idea where your child is? How can you take seriously the complaint of your co-worker that someone is stinking up the kitchen when you don’t know if your child is hungry somewhere? How can you plan, work, drive, eat, sleep – do anything – when that […]
The title of this book has nothing to do with the story. Nothing,
I’m 87% sure that I read this book once before, but it doesn’t appear as though I reviewed it so I’m counting it. Also? There are approximately eleventy billion books out there called “Heat Wave”. It took me like, five pages on the Amazon search to find this. I feel like we can come up with a more unique title, kids. Kat Vargas is a private investigator living in California by way of Hawaii. She’s tiny, tough, and she’s built a wall around her heart […]
Buy a cookbook, people. It’s not that hard.
I confessed earlier that I’m not a fan of the Shopaholic books, but I read Can You Keep a Secret? and realized that it wasn’t so bad, so I thought I’d give Kinsella another shot, and picked up The Undomestic Goddess from a pile at my sister’s. And then I remembered why I didn’t really like her. Samantha Sweeting is a high powered London attorney who makes a big mistake at work on the eve of her partnership. The mistake is gigantic – like, millions […]
If you can’t keep a secret, come sit by me…
I confess I’m not a fan of the Shopaholic books. I tried one and I just couldn’t get in to it. I don’t mind books with heroines who are a little bit of a mess – I actually quite enjoy them because it reminds me that it’s okay that I’m a little bit of a mess – but there was just something about the Shopaholic books that I just couldn’t deal with. So I’ve always resisted Sophia Kinsella’s other books, thinking that they would be […]
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