Novelas Romanticas Gratis

  Did I make my goal and read everything I planned in March? In a word: NO.  Dang it! I started both The Conductors by Nicole Glover and Kristin Hannah's The Four Winds but haven't made enough headway to finish in March. I may end up buying The Conductors so I can finish it later-it's due back at the library. I'll finish both books in April (sometime!) and get those reviews out.  I thought I'd be able to relax a little bit in April, but then I made a few trips to Barnes and Noble and blew it. I've got three books to read and review for publishers, and I'm trying really hard not to buy anything else for a few weeks so I can catch up. It's a heck of a mishmash of different genres but that's what makes reading so interesting every month.  Here's what's on tap for April: This is my feel good book of the month. I spied it at B&N and had to pick it up. A woman inherits her Aunt's home in Charleston and discovers a whole new life. This i

  Buy Here:  https://amzn.to/3m1SPH3 I knew I'd love this book when it first was out in hardcover last year (2020) and it was getting so many great reviews. It took me a year but I finally bought it in paperback and vowed I would read it this month. This is a sweet, special story.  Linus Baker is living a life as dull and grey as the weather in London. He is in his early forties and every day he works at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He travels to orphanages and checks to make sure the magical children at each location are being properly cared for--and he takes his job very seriously. He's been doing the same job for seventeen years. His routine is the same every day: get up, go to work, come home and feed his cat, eat a sad salad, and listen to records. No friends, nothing. He's fully aware his life is not the best, but he's just too tired to do anything about it.  He gets a special assignment from the Extremely Upper Management--a case that is very specia

  This novel has my vote for the most gorgeous cover of 2021. I can't stop staring at it!  The Lost Apothecary    was one of the books I've most eagerly awaited this year, and it didn't disappoint. It moves back and forth between 1791 and present day London, and I found both settings equally interesting.  Caroline Parcewell has arrived in London alone-on what was supposed to be a tenth wedding anniversary trip with her husband James. Instead, she fled Ohio after finding out James was having an affair. Heartbroken and disillusioned, Caroline decides to come to London herself, to have time to think. Her first day there, she takes a last minute mud-larking trip to the Thames River, and finds a small glass bottle with an intriguing bear mark on it.  Mud larking, by the way, is when people actually walk along the banks of the River Thames and search the mud for artifacts the river has left ashore. People have been doing this for centuries (some made their living from it). Peopl

  Warmer temps this past week have me perking up a bit. All the snow has disappeared from my yard and that makes me happy, too. Spring is definitely around the corner, and this novel hit all the right notes    and I couldn't have read it at a better time of the year.  Rosie is a sous chef at a very upscale restaurant in London. She's been married for some time, and beginning to think it's time to start a family. However, her husband decides to start a family with another woman, and leaves Rosie on her birthday . He tells her she's "boring".  Crushed, Rosie realizes she's at a dead end career-wise and besides, she just can't continue to work where everyone knows her husband left her (for another sous chef). She impulsively (late at night, drinking wine) buys a bright pink van, affectionately named Poppy, and decides to leave London to travel the country selling baked goods and tea at festivals. It's a pretty big switch from her organized London life

  I read the first novel in the Kate Burkholder series Sworn to Silence years ago, and it was unlike anything I'd read before. A former Amish woman who has left the community and Amish life, returns to her hometown as the Chief of Police. It was dark, twisty, and impossible to put down. Since then, this series has grown to over ten novels, but I had only kept to reading the first one, until this week.  I found this short story collection featuring Kate Burkholder, and decided it was just what I needed to dip back into this series. I also wanted to read some shorter stories, so it was perfect timing.  I'm of two minds with this collection: you either read it, having read one or more of the books in the series, or read it without having read anything. Having some of the backstory will certainly help fill in some of the spaces in each story; however, I can see a reader becoming intrigued enough not  knowing Kate's backstory to read these, then immediately dive into the first b