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review 2019-11-16 14:04

Audio Review: This is Love (The Checkmate Duet: Travis and Viola #2) by: Kennedy Fox (author), Lia Langola (narrator)

This is Love (The Checkmate Duet: Travis and Viola #2) - Kennedy Fox ,Lia Langola

Enough with the foreplay. Every mean word. Every heartache. Every cruel joke has lead our hearts to this moment. Are Travis and Viola ready? Kennedy Fox is back to wrap up lose ends with more than enough sensuality and a sprinkling of heartbreak. Travis and Viola pull at your heart this time around. This is War was a feast for the senses, but This is Love puts the moves on your soul. Langola proves herself to be up to the challenge. With humor and heart, you can't help but fall in love.

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review 2019-11-16 13:36

Audio Review: This is War (The Checkmate Duet #1; Travis & Viola #1) by: Kennedy Fox (author), Lia Langola (narrator)

Hopeless Romantic

This is War (The Checkmate Duet #1; Travis & Viola #1) - Kennedy Fox,Lia Langola

It's go time and your heart is the ultimate prize. Nobody can tell a story like Kennedy Fox. This is War grabs your attention from the very beginning. Travis and Viola are match made in heaven, but they put each other through hell to get there. It's hard to know whether to laugh, cry or just give up on these two fools in love. Langola puts emotions through the wringer with a bit of temptation on the side.

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review 2019-03-20 15:57

The Hope Chest

My Never Ending List

I bought this novel for my mother and now its my turn to read it. I’d heard a lot about this novel and after reading it, I’m glad that I bought it. I liked how everything tied together in this novel. Although the topic of the novel could be depressing, the tone was spirited and encouraging. I liked the hope chest and how the author used it throughout the novel. I enjoyed the characters and the relationships that they had with each other. This was a sweet story that I enjoyed.

There are a few stories being told within this novel but the amount of characters to remember are few. Mattie and her husband Don, are moving out of the cottage that Mattie has lived in the majority of her life. Moving into something smaller, Mattie will miss this cottage, the garden, and the view but this should make life easier for them. Mattie has been living with ALS for the past 5 years and her husband has been her caretaker.

In their new house, Don finally realizes and accepts help for Mattie. Desperately needing a job, Rose applies and is accepted as Mattie in-home caretaker. This was a fantastic section of the novel as Rose and Mattie meet. There seemed to be a bond forming immediately as they talked. Mattie soon meets Rose’s young daughter, Jeri and if this book could burst, it would be then. You just knew something special was happening.

Lots of different emotions flowed throughout the reading as the characters filled their parts. Mattie’s illness started to take its toil as Mattie thought about her previous life. Once a successful, landscape architect, she was now living her life in a wheelchair. Her body just couldn’t move as her mind wanted it to anymore. This constant struggle clung to her day and night. Don struggled to keep himself together as the love of his life began slipping away from him. Rose was beginning to build a deep connection to these new individuals that were in her life and Jeri was loved by all. Jeri kept up the energy of the household and her innocence was so sweet.

This was a warm, compassionate novel that moved rather quickly. I noticed though, that I didn’t feel a deep emotional response to some of the events that occurred in this novel and I’m not sure why I felt that way. I enjoyed the characters, the story line was great, and emotionally I was connected to this novel (just not as deeply as I thought I should be). A great novel that will touch your heart.

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review 2018-08-02 00:19

The Recipe Box

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Sometimes, I just need a feel good book that reminds me of the priorities in life and the bonds of family. The Recipe Box by Viola Shipman is one of those books. Since I love to cook, an added bonus is the fact that it is also a foodie book centered around a recipe box passed down from generation to generation. There are hints of seriousness, but the heart of the book is a feel good story perfect for a summer beach read.

Reviewed for NetGalley.

Source: www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2018/08/the-recipe-box.html

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review 2018-05-23 21:17

Love Pies and Apple Picking

No More Booklikes, BYE — feeling amazing

audiobook
Excellent narration
Recipes excellent
Sweet, heartwarming this book brought back so many fond memories of my youth in upper Michigan. This is a book with strong family ties, great relationships, honesty and courage, not game playing. I felt good, peaceful and happy while reading it. A fabulous summer feel good read.
I loved this tale of upper an Upper Michigan woman/pastry chef and the orchard her family owns. She was raised on her family's orchard, a multi generation owned business. She wants to make her own mark on the world so she leaves and goes to NY to work under a famous pastry chef. Things happen, life changes, and she finds herself heading home for some thinking and her grandmother's 75th birthday celebration. Once there she is drawn into the power of family and food, and re-centers her life and her heart.
Pie, pie, pie, oh the pies in this book ! There are recipes, good ones I've tried three so far. The only downfall to the audio version is that I had to write them down while play pause/play pause it took some time. I ordered the hard copy so I'll have them soon.

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