The most interesting fiction book I have read in from Bk Borison. Imagine, on one hand you’re a sweet girl who loves Christmas and candy canes. You work in a cute little antiques store, and feed the neighborhood cat all the time. Then, boom a handsome man with an Irish accent pops from behind your Christmas tree. And, tells you the thing you’ve never want to hear. That the he’s the ghost from Christmas past. And he’s here because YOU’RE a bad person. And he is here to help you wrong your rights.
You think “ME? the girl in Christmas pj’s? ME? There must be a mistake!” Well that’s exactly what I thought.
Did I convince you enough to read the book yet? Well what if I told you the hot Irishmen also liked you?
Well there ya go. Hot broody irish man spirit + Nice sweet girl = MUST READ BOOK. I’m telling you
10/10 Candy Canes!!!
(Fyi the acknowledgments made me cry my eyes out. So did the ending of the book, in a good way)
Full Spoiler review:
Wow! What a concept. What an Idea. Someone give a nice pepper mind mocha or whatever Bk Borison’s favorite drink. At the perfect temperature.
So if you’re reading this part of the review, you accept that this part will be full of spoilers. My favorite parts were so many. The compass made me cry. The red string theory led them together even though they were in different timelines. They help each other in both their past lives. And the acknowledgments, that was so touching and made me cry.
Being capable of making peace with your past, helps your future. and now, they are able to have a lovely life together. I love that. Best Book.
What a huge book! And I loved every minute of it. Hannah Grace comes back with another one of her spicy novels, but holiday edition. I have read every single one of Hannah Grace’s books, and I must say although this one is a bit tamer than the others, it comes through with story.
TLDR;
Hannah Grace’s Holiday Ever After is about Clara Davenport, a corporate worker at her family’s corporation Davenport Innovation Creative. She desperately craves her father’s approval, and eyes a promotion for Head of Innovation. She is a hard worker, and a HR genius. When someone from a small town, Fraser Falls, posts hateful videos about Davenport, Clara sees this as the opportunity to get the position she wants. Like most hallmark movies that I love, she arrives and finds out it is not as simple as it seems.
It also features Jack Kelly, a “I will fix everything ” type of guy who finds himself played by davenports “Small business” contract, one that Clara made but did not head, and commits himself to fix everything that has gone wrong. There is also a lovely dog as well for the dog lovers out there.
She encounters love, moral questions, and small town antics in this lovely and spicy Hallmark like book.
I absolutely loved this novel for its showcasing of the intersection of moral values and legacy. Clara wants to improve the business and improve the legacy that her grandfather had made. But once she goes out to Fraser Falls. She realizes, this dream that she had, of taking over the business and winning her father’s approval and appointment for the promotion that she wanted. It was not what she wanted after all.
I love how her character shows throughout the novel. At first we see her as, a corporate worker, and nothing but that. She is there to do her work, and that’s it. But we see through the story that she cares so much for the people of Fraser Falls and she wants to make up for harm done. Of course, we are not all perfect and some mistakes happen, but she does at the end realize that the company she wanted to save, didn’t deserve to be saved and didn’t deserve her at all.
Know your worth ladies, gents and non-binary friends!
For our first Amy Reviews Review, we are reviewing Maid for Each Other by Lynn Painter!
TLDR;
Abi Mariano is a maid who works to clean Declan Powell’s apartment. To get his parents off his back for not dating, and to possibly get taken even more seriously at his billion dollar workplace, he offers a deal to Abi to be his girlfriend for 40k. This works perfectly because.. Declan already had said he has a girlfriend named Abby. And her name is Abi. Works perfectly right?
Well… yes, actually. Abi is the best girlfriend, everyone loves her and through tons of buisness meetings, conventions and a little trip to nyc, they start to fall in love. This book was a great sweet read. If you have ever seen Maid in Manhattan, it is just like that except Abi doesn’t have kids and there is no politics.
I give it 4/5 Scrub daddies plus one bouquet of Inhalers and Epi Pens.
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FULL REVIEW. SPOILERS BELOW!
What a lovely read! I had just finished this read and instantly got that cozy feel. You know, when you finish one book and think, I want to read another one. Instead of “this book put me in a book slump” type deal? This is exactly what I was feeling. It was really giving Maid in Manhattan and Best Friends Wedding. It gave cozy, and a bit spicy. Though it was about one Jalapeno on the Spicy scale for me.
If you haven’t watched Maid in Manhattan or My Best Friends Wedding, the premise is the same. In Maid in Manhattan, a maid falls in love with a promising politician. But, she lives in New York in the Bronx. So she pretends to be rich, so she can fall in love with him, and discover he is not that bad as the media makes him out to be. The same premise happens in My Best Friends wedding. The best friend is invited to be a bridesmaid to a women to is marrying her best friend. He is convinced that she is the nicest and kind woman, and that even though her father is wealthy, her family is not terrible at all.
That is where this book leads us, on a mish mash lovely tale of “he’s not that bad after all” and “I’m pretending to date you, but I actually love you?” genre
The book opens up on the ever interesting Benny’s grocery, where Abi Mariano works. She is working two jobs because she wants to pay off her student loans (Aren’t we all). Her other job leads to the introduction of the plot. While Abi is cleaning one of her clients apartments(Declan Powell), she finds out that AGAST! her apartment is infested and needs to be exterminated. Abi thinks it would be a good idea to stay just one night at Powell’s apartment. When SHOCKER his parents show up and are lovely to meet his girl friend “Abby”.
Apparently, Declan Powell said his girlfriend was Abby and it turns out, the cleaning lady is Abi. In an effort to smooth things over, Declan catches Abi at the grocery store she works at and offers her a deal. Pretend to be his girlfriend for investor weekend, and then he will give her whatever she wants. Abi being the sarcastic, funny and smart girl she is she requests a big ‘ol whopping 40k. Enough for her student loans. Declan agrees and off they go on their secret girl friend journey.
My favorite scenes from these books have to be when Abi runs a 5k even though she has asthma, and Declan’s kindness towards her during an asthma attack. I also love how at the end, Declan had the idea to buy tons of inhalers and epi pens for her. (Those things are expensive)
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