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A Very Italian Wedding by Donna Ashcroft - Blog Tour 6/6/25 @bookouture @Donnashc

A Very Italian Wedding by Donna Ashcroft – Blog Tour 6/6/25 @bookouture @Donnashc

Ah, a wedding in Italy! How lovely! The perfect setting, the scrumptious food, love in the air, and a villa in Tuscany sounds like a dream! But for Rose, the bride’s best friend, it’s a ball of worry and concern. Her best friend Luna only met Marco a month ago, fell madly in love and is getting married. Rose knows that Julie is making a mistake! On the way to Italy, Rose sits next to Ben the best man at the wedding. Ben is handsome, charming, and happy that Marco has fallen in love and is getting married. His reaction is the complete opposite of Rose’s reaction to the upcoming wedding!

I always say, with romance novels it is all about the journey and this was a journey set in a lovely setting full of interesting characters. Rose, initially felt like an older woman to me. She is stodgy, set in her ways, unyielding, and felt cold at times. She really did come across as bitter. Even Coco, the dog, was a little uptight at first. Ben on the other hand is fun, happy-go-lucky, charismatic, and supportive. They are total opposites!

I enjoyed their banter, the descriptions of the beautiful setting, the unique side characters and of course, Coco the dog! Coco just needed a little joy in her life to have her wagging her tail! Coco stole every scene she was in as did Marco’s Aunt Aurora who was a fun and interesting character as well! Plus, can you really remain stodgy and uptight in Italy?

As I got to know Rose better and learned more about her backstory, I warmed up to her and began to understand her character. Rose goes on quite the journey in this book and it was a joy to see her character evolve. Not only did she go on an individual journey she went on a romantic journey as well!

I found this book to be charming, fun, entertaining and heartwarming. I enjoyed Donna Ashcroft’s wonderful writing, her vivid descriptions, her interesting and unique characters and the journey all of the characters in this book took while in Italy for A Very Italian Wedding!

The publisher may want to put a warning on this book that reading it may have you dreaming of Italy and Italian food!

Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

Little Child Gone by Stacy Green - Blog Tour 6/1/25 @bookouture #StacyGreen

Little Child Gone by Stacy Green – Blog Tour 6/1/25 @bookouture #StacyGreen

Stacy Green is still hitting it out of the ballpark with Little Child Gone, the 10th book in her thrilling and gripping Nikki Hunt series!!!!!! Woohoo! The thrilling and shocking prologue had me glued to the pages! That not only piqued my interest but had my heart pounding right away! Talk about an opener! I had to, not I needed to know more. Stacy Green delivered and then some! Wowza, what a book!

This book starts off strongly and never lets up as Special Agent Nikki Hunt is called to a home with a hidden room and the bones of two people have just been found!!!!! Nikki can’t help but wonder if the bones belong to a housekeeper and her children who went missing from the home ten years earlier. Then she receives a frantic phone call from a local sheriff informing her that Taylor Hall, a fourteen-year-old has gone missing from his family’s home!

Whew! Nikki has a lot on her plate in this book as she investigates the current case and wonders if it could in any way be connected to the cold case she is also investigating. This book had me turning the pages at warp speed. I was fully invested in the mystery and the investigative work. As with the other books in the series, I enjoyed getting glimpses into Nikki’s private life as well which I always love. It has been wonderful reading the character development of Nikki, her daughter and those in their lives over the course of this series. I enjoy how the author balances Nikki’s home and professional lives.

As with the other books in this series, Little Child Gone is brimming with tension, dread, suspense, and danger. It also has a nice number of twists and turns as well. Although this book is the 10th book in the series, it can easily be read as a stand-alone. Having said that, this is such a fantastic series that I recommend picking it up and reading it from the very beginning!

Wonderfully written, well thought out, perfectly plotted and mysterious!!!!!

Highly recommend!

Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

Save Her Life by Carolyn Arnold - Blog Tour 6/1/25 @bookouture @Carolyn_Arnold

Save Her Life by Carolyn Arnold – Blog Tour 6/1/25 @bookouture @Carolyn_Arnold

Gripping, shocking, thrilling, and intense, Save Her Life instantly grabbed my attention and never let go! Whew! I loved the tension, the suspense, the sense of danger and the pacing of this book. There was never a dull moment! I found this book to be a captivating page turner and I look forward to reading the next book in the series!

Special Agent Sandra Vos is one of the FBI’s top hostage negotiators. After dropping her daughter off at school, she reports to a hostage situation at a local grocery store. She is in the midst of doing what she does best when she is informed that Olivia, her daughter has been taken. She has twenty four hours to meet the kidnappers demands or lose her daughter forever. Talk about having a bad day. Sandra must walk a tightrope between being a special agent and being a mother who wants her child back. Plus, dealing with everyone else in her life.

Woohoo! This book was off the hook intense!!!! Man, this book put me and Sandra through the ringer and then some. This book had my heart beating and my fingers crossed hoping for the best possible outcome. I enjoyed Sandra Vos’s character and felt for all she went through in this book.

This is the thrilling first book in a new series and I can’t wait to read the next book in the series. Ever read a book and wonder why you have never read a book by that author before? That is my experience with reading Save Her Life. I was constantly asking myself why I had not picked up a book by Carolyn Arnold previously. Save Her Life is so good!

Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

The Burning Soul by Dawn Merriman - Blog Tour 5/13/25 @SecondSkyBooks @DMerrimanBooks

The Burning Soul by Dawn Merriman – Blog Tour 5/13/25 @SecondSkyBooks @DMerrimanBooks

Gripping, scorching hot, haunting, mysterious, and hard to put down, The Burning Soul is another thrilling addition to the Rylan Flynn series by Dawn Merriman. Rylan Flynn is a ghost hunter who helps ghost transition to the other side and solves the mysteries of their deaths. I have enjoyed this series since the very beginning (The Spirit Girls) and enjoy how Rylan uses her skills to help not only the living but the dead. She has a unique skill which many are skeptical of, yet she preservers and helps the restless spirts move on. Along the way she encounters danger, obstacles, spirits, killers, and law enforcement.

In The Burning Soul, Rylan observes the ghost of a young woman watching a house fire and soon the police find the body of young woman in the ashes. Rylan does her best to get to the truth of the young woman’s death, even if it means looking at someone she knows. Not to mention that an evil spirit that she had trapped in her home has escaped! UGH! Rylan must turn to Detective Ford Pierce for help. Fans of the series, know him and his relationship with Rylan Flynn well.

I enjoyed the mystery, drama, tension, thrills, secrets, twists, and suspense in this book. Dawn Merriman’s wonderful writing, vivid descriptions, and fully fleshed out characters are also a big plus for me in this series. This book has just the right amount of tension, danger, romance, suspense, and thrills. This series has always been entertaining, light, mysterious, and a joy to read.

Just over 200 pages, I easily read The Burning Soul in one day. I was glued to the pages, wanting more, and doing my best to catch the killer along with Rylan. I have always enjoyed the scenes between Rylan and Ford and reading about their ups and downs. Their romance has also been a nice touch in this book and in the series.

There is one more book to come in this riveting series. The end of this book has me salivating and excited. There has been one mystery that has ebbed and flowed in and out of the previous books – it’s a big one and I have a feeling, that mystery will finally be solved. I can’t wait!! Fingers crossed the Dawn Merriman writes fast!!!!!

Thank you to Second Sky and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

All I Ever Wanted by Kate Hewitt - Blog Tour 4/28/25 @bookouture @author_kate

All I Ever Wanted by Kate Hewitt – Blog Tour 4/28/25 @bookouture @author_kate

Thought provoking, moving, gripping, and hard to put down! Kate Hewitt put me through a range of emotions while reading All I Ever Wanted! This is a book about life choices, doubt, honesty, being a parent, family, motherhood, marriage, fertility, and responsibility. I felt for all the characters. I wanted to hug them, scold them, and found myself frequently wondering while reading, All I Ever Wanted, what would I do in each character’s situation.

Ashley and Mark are a married couple who want to have a child. When Ashley learns that she cannot have a child, she and her husband investigate other options. Dani decides to become a surrogate mother to be able to pay for an operation that her younger sister, whom she is raising, needs.

Ashley and Mark decide to use Dani as a traditional surrogate, meaning they will use her egg and Mark’s sperm. Whew! This book brings up a lot of issues about fertility, surrogacy, becoming a parent, motherhood, and all the legalities and emotions that come into play. This book also looks at various forms of relationships, communication, and compromise.

Kate Hewitt tells All I Ever Wanted through both Ashley’s and Dani’s POV’s which makes for a moving and riveting reading experience. I felt for both at times and the issues that both women wrestled with.

Wonderfully written, well thought out, gripping, evoking emotion, and thought provoking.

Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.