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Book Review: The Light on Horn Island by Valerie Fraser Luesse

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 The Light on Horn Island by Valerie Fraser Luesse  5 Stars! Reading this book felt like stepping back in time to memories with my grandparents and great grandparents - so many beautiful days gone by. It feels like sweet tea, magnolias, front porch sittin' southern storytelling that will stick with you forever. This was my first book by Valerie, and now I need to read ALL of her other books. Set in Mississippi, Edie returns home to her beloved grandmother after the loss of her friend in New York. This setting is very warm and familiar as a southern gal in Tennessee myself. The author portrays small town southern life in such rich detail, while also honoring the wisdom of our grandparent's generation.  We see the heart of this story lie in the relationships of Edie and her grandmother, a tight-knit group of friends and family. Long buried secrets and stories come to light in this book. Her grandmother introduced her to the antique shop and many of her friends there and we ...

Book Review: Saving the Mountain Man's Legacy by Misty M. Beller

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  Saving the Mountain Man's Legacy by Misty M. Beller  4 Stars Book #8 in the Brothers of Sapphire Ranch Series  Read if you like: 💍Marriage of Convenience 🏔️Rocky Mountain Wilderness Settings 👶❤️ Family Saga Stories ⚡High-Stakes Danger and Suspense 💪 Strong, Protective MMC 💕 Slow-Burn, Sweet Romances  Faith Elements I really liked this one! I love a good marriage of convenience story and this one is my favorite of Misty's so far in this series. I really need to go back and read more of this series, because I am so connected to this family! Saving the Mountain Man's Legacy is the series finale in this series. We follow Jedidiah's daughter, Grace Hampton, who is one her way to town to see her father with the newborn baby someone left on her doorstep to raise as her own. She runs into Sampson Coulter, who is determined to undo his mistake he made that has jeopardized his family. Sampson takes Grace and the newborn baby girl to her father safely, yet her father isn...

Book Review: The Voice We Find by Nicole Deese

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Vlog to come out Monday April 28th 7:00 a.m. central "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39 The Voice We Find by Nicole Deese 5 STARS  Wow. Let's just say I have found another favorite book of 2025 and of ALL time. Nicole Deese tells powerful stories. Plain and simple. She is a top favorite of all time and I will forever recommend her books! Let's get into the review: The Voice We Find is technically book 3 in the Fog Harbor Book Series, but you can read it as a standalone book. They do not connect in the storylines. Book 1:  The Words We Lost Book 2: The Roads We Follow Book 3: The Voice We Find The Voice We Find doesn't just give you a good story....it gives you something much deeper: hope, healing and the beautiful remi...

Book Review: Everything's Coming Up Rosie by Courtney Walsh

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ARC Review - Releasing June 10, 2025 Everything's Coming Up Rosie by Courtney Walsh 4 Stars 🎭When your Broadway dreams lead you to.....a retirement community? This is a story about losing it all and finding something even better. 💫  ⭐Read This If You Love:⭐ 🎭🎶🎬Books about Theatre & Music Production 💕💌🌸Clean Romance 🏡🧓🪴Retirement Community 🤗🏠🍲 Found Family ☀️🍉🕶️A Good Summer Read Rosie's journey is funny, real and inspiring. We follow a heartwarming and humorous story where she rediscovers her purpose after her dreams have shifted. Rosie has been wanting to be on Broadway and continues to strike out on her big dreams as a working actor. She goes home and is offered a job as the director of a regional theatre production of Cinderella - the catch? The job is in Wisconsin, not New York. She goes to take this job and realizes the job she accepted is actually in a retirement community and the "actors" are actually senior citizens.  We see Rosie really ex...

Book Review: The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House by Joanna Davidson Politano

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  Book Review: The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House by Joanna Davidson Politano  4.5 Stars  Wow, I really just need to read all of Joanna's books at this point - this was SO good!  Read if you enjoy: 🛠️✨Steampunk Elements 🛠️✨Christian Fiction 🛠️✨Gothic Settings 🛠️✨Invention and Mystery 🛠️✨Pirate Elements 🛠️✨Bookish Engineer FMC 🛠️✨Mysterious House 🛠️✨1901 Historical Fiction 🛠️✨Inheritance Plot 🛠️✨Light Romance Thread 🛠️✨Faith Elements 🛠️✨Hidden Family Secrets 🛠️✨Strong Female Protagonist  This was a very good blend of classic mystery meets whimsical invention!  We follow Sydney Forrester in 1901 who is a clockmaker that inherits Blakely House, an estate of an estranged uncle she has never met. He left behind lots of inventions and many of his family members and workers on the estate do not want Sydney there. They are all convinced she had something to do with his death, turning this into a mystery of who killed him....Sydney finds an ally i...

Book Review: Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

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  Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys  4 Stars (3.5 to 4) Set in 1950, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, 17 year old Josie Moraine wants to get out of the Big Easy more than anything. She is the daughter of a prostitute, works in a bookshop and has always helped clean/pick up the brothel ran by Willie Woodley. She has a dream to get out of this life and go to college because books and learning new things are important to her. We follow this story of Josie's dreams, heartbreaks, and involvement in a murder mystery. I really enjoyed this book. My third Ruta book and while it wasn't as impactful as I Must Betray You and Between Shades of Grey, it was still a great story that I think is worth the read. Be aware of the content in this one -- some language, domestic abuse, prostitution details (not explicit but discussed), a brothel as a main location, innuendo (not graphic), a mother who mistreats her daughter, and mild violence. The content did not bother me for the most part pers...

Book Review: Fearless by Lauren Roberts

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Fearless by Lauren Roberts Book 3 in the Powerless Trilogy 3 Stars OK, let’s dive into the review! I have sat with this all day and I think I’m going to land on 3 stars for this one. Books 1 and 2 were solid 4 star reads for me, and while my experience reading book 3 felt like a 4-star moment....mainly because I was in that UNWELL STATUS and absolutely NEEDED to know what was happening....it didn’t quite hold up in the end. You know those "drop everything and read" moments? That was ME! Her writing is great and addictive - but looking at the book itself, it felt a little all over the place. The last 30% especially got kind of random and, at times, just plain ridiculous. I questioned some events going on that made me like...WAITTTT WHAT? HA! That said, I still had a blast with this series. It is definitely one that will stay close to my heart because I adored Kai and Paedyn so much. Love their romance and banter - it's what has made the trilogy for me honestly. Kai really ...