I was on a roll this month with the audiobooks!!
Title: Thirteen
Author: Steve Cavanagh
Pages: 323
Rating: 5
Published: January 30, 2018
This is the 4th book in the Eddie Flynn series, fortunately, you don't need to read the other 3 in order to appreciate this one. There is enough back history sprinkled throughout the book that you feel like you know Eddie Flynn personally.
Eddie gets called up to be a defense lawyer for a famous actor whose wife and head of security were found dead in his bed. Everybody believed that the actor was the murderer but Eddie was able to put connections together with previous murders that were committed in a similar fashion. Exposing a serial killer that likes to make sure he's on the jury to get the innocent man put in prison.
Title: The Devil, The Witch, and the Whore
Author: Amy Cross
Pages: 453
Rating: 2.5
Published: November 14, 2016
I got about 65% through it and I couldn't finish it. It was so boring. Nothing really happened in the 65% that I read... I had such high hopes for this book, but it was a total flop.
Title: The Butterfly Effect
Author: Rachel Mans McKenny
Pages: 304
Rating: 3
Published: December 8, 2020
This was a struggle to get through... the only thing that kept me going with it was the descriptions of Ames. As an Ames native, it was nice to read about the town I miss most.
Title: Hooked (7th and Main, #2)
Author: Elizabeth Hunter
Hours: 7.5 hrs
Rating: 4.5
Published: June 18, 2019
A continuation story from the 1st book, called Ink.
Tayla McKinnon moves to Metlin, California to help her best open her bookshop/tattoo parlor. A year later Tayla is feeling trapped and gets an opportunity to work for an up-and-coming fashion app that has a global outreach. Only problem is Jeremy, the sexy African American mountain climber/comic book shop owner that lives in Metlin.
Tayla needs to decide is she going to sacrifice her relationship with Jeremy to move back to the city, or try and get what she wants?
Really cute audiobook!
Title: Grit (7th and Main, #3)
Author: Elizabeth Hunter
Hours: 7.5 hours
Rating: 4.5
Published: September 3, 2019
Melissa Oxford owns her own ranch and runs it with her mom and daughter, with help from her neighbor, Cary.
Cary has been in love with Melissa for years, 6 years after Melissa's husband passed, Cary starts to make his move.
This is the third book in the 7th and Main series and it is such a cute story — an older man doing everything he can to help and protect Melissa and her daughter.
Title: Meet Me in the Margins
Author: Melissa Ferguson
Hours: 8 hrs
Rating: 4.5
Published: February 15, 2022
Savannah works at a smaller publishing company that only publishes non-fiction. ONLY non-fiction - the owner loathes commercial fiction. The only problem is that Savannah is currently writing a romance novel - the lowest of the low of genres.
Savannah hides her novel so she can work on it during her lunch breaks and discovers that an unknown editor is reading it. Panicking at first, Savannah wants to hide her book, but once she reads the edits she agrees with them. She believes this unknown editor can help her get the novel ready for publication.
Writing notes back and forth, can a relationship bloom between the margins?
This was a super cute read and the narrator was perfect.
Title: The Sanatorium
Author: Sarah Pearse
Hours: 12 hrs
Rating: 2.5
Published: February 2, 2021
This was a really disappointing book. The main character was the clueless "police officer" I have ever read about. I'm really glad I never bought the book like I almost did so many times.
Title: Sweet (7th and Main, #4)
Author: Elizabeth Sweet
Pages: 147
Rating: 4.5
Published: December 14, 2021
Daisy is in love with Spider, the hot new tattoo artist. Daisy is her family's pride and joy for being the first person to go to college. The only problem is that Daisy does not want to go, she wants to stay in Metlin and run the family bakery.
Spider wants to get rid of his dark past and is having a hard time when it runs into him while he's in Metlin. Can he keep Daisy when she finds out about his past?
This was such a cute book and I was there were going to be more!
Title: Captivated
Author: Nora Roberts
Pages: 304
Rating: 3
Published: February 1, 2001
Cute story of a witch and a filmmaker. He wants to interview her to learn more about witchcraft for his new film and she is willing to give him the information and make him a believer. Things get complicated when his past catches up with him.
This was my first Nora Roberts book and it was okay. Not my favorite thing I've ever read.
Title: The Kiss Quotient
Author: Helen Hoang
Hours: 9.5
Rating: 5
Published: June 5, 2018
Stella is a woman who believes that math is the only thing that makes sense in life. What doesn't make sense to her, are men and sex. With a lot of internal pressure, she goes to an escort site and pays to meet a man named Michael.
Michael is a man who hates being an escort but can't stop due to family bills that need to be paid. When he meets Stella he is very confused about why she is so afraid to be touched and can't handle anything sexual.
Over the span of their relationship, they learn to fall in love with each other and accept each other's quirks and eccentricities.
Title: Praise
Author: Sara Cate
Pages: 341
Rating: 4
Published: March 17, 2021
My first age gap, ex-boyfriend's dad romance book!
Was pretty good!
The dad, Emmerson, owns a kink club and Charlotte, the main girl, is working for him as his new secretary. Emmerson is trying to win his son's trust back (Charlotte's ex-boyfriend), while also trying not to fall in love with his new secretary.
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