It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? hosted by Kathryn at Bookdate is a weekly post to share what you’ve recently finished reading, what you’re currently reading, and what you plan on reading this upcoming week.
So here is what I just read, am reading, and what I plan to read next:
What I Read Last Week:
Title: Moonlighter (The Company #1)
Authors: Sarina Bowen
Immediate Thoughts: Humorous, romantic, and suspenseful!
Rating: 9/10
Publication Date: October 22, 2019
Title: When It’s Real
Authors: Erin Watt
Immediate Thoughts: Feel-good, sweet, and fun!
Rating: 8/10
Publication Date: May 30, 2017
Title: The Summer Queen
Authors: Margaret Pemberton
Immediate Thoughts: Fascinating, complex, and compelling!
Rating: 9/10
Publication Date: September 3, 2019
Title: The Deception (Maximum Security #2)
Authors: Kat Martin
Immediate Thoughts: Suspenseful, steamy, and action packed!
Rating: 7.5/10
Publication Date: September 10, 2019
Title: Love on Lexington Avenue (Central Park Pact #2)
Author: Lauren Layne
Immediate Thoughts: Humourous, delifghtul, and heartfelt!
Rating: 10/10
Publication Date: September 17, 2019
What I’m Currently Reading:
Escape to the frost-sparkling Yorkshire Dales for some festive fun under the mistletoe! A saucy comedy-romance with more than a sprinkle of Christmas spice – this will lift your spirits and your excitement level!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for costume shop owner Becky Finn. Leaving London to move back home to the twinkly rural village of Egglethwaite, she plans to build a new life for herself with fiancé, Cole.
Keen to raise funds for the struggling village hall she loved as a child, Becky finds herself at the head of a colourful group aiming to revive the Egglethwaite Christmas pantomime. But when that festive feeling sets in, she discovers there’s more to panto than innuendo and slapped thighs.
Falling in love was not in the script! But as opening night grows closer, she starts to wonder if the panto will ever make it to the stage and, with handsome co-star Marcus on the scene, if she has chosen her right leading man…
What I’m Reading Next:
In the tradition of Jennifer Robson and Hazel Gaynor, this unforgettable debut novel is a sweeping tale of forbidden love, profound loss, and the startling truth of the broken families left behind in the wake of World War I.
1921. Survivors of the Great War are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. While many have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie’s husband Francis is still missing. Francis is presumed to have been killed in action, but Edie knows he is alive.
Harry, Francis’s brother, was there the day Francis went missing in Ypres. And like Edie, he’s hopeful Francis is living somewhere in France, lost and confused. Hired by grieving families in need of closure, Harry returns to the Western Front to photograph soldiers’ graves. As he travels through France gathering news for British wives and mothers, he searches for evidence his own brother is still alive.
When Edie receives a mysterious photograph that she believes was taken by Francis, she is more certain than ever he isn’t dead. Edie embarks on her own journey in the hope of finding some trace of her husband. Is he truly gone, or could he still be alive? And if he is, why hasn’t he come home?
As Harry and Edie’s paths converge, they get closer to the truth about Francis and, as they do, are soon faced with the life-changing impact of the answers they discover.
An incredibly moving account of an often-forgotten moment in history—those years after the war that were filled with the unknown—The Poppy Wife tells the story of the thousands of soldiers who were lost amid the chaos and ruins in battle-scarred France; and the even greater number of men and women hoping to find them again.
Have you read any of my upcoming reads? What do you have coming up?
