Ash Reads Stuff

Sweet Tea and Sympathy  by Molly Harper Publication Date: November 21st, 2017 Pages: 320 (paperback) Genre: Contemporary Romance My Goodreads Rating: 5 stars Goodreads Synopsis: Beloved author Molly Harper launches a brand-new contemporary romance series, Southern Eclectic, with this story of a big-city party planner who finds true love in a small Georgia town. Nestled on the shore of Lake Sackett, Georgia is the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop. (What, you have a problem with one-stop shopping?) Two McCready brothers started two separate businesses in the same building back in 1928, and now it’s become one big family affair. And true to form in small Southern towns, family business becomes everybody’s business. Margot Cary has spent her life immersed in everything Lake Sackett is not. As an elite event planner, Margot’s rubbed elbows with the cream of Chicago society, and made elegance and glamour her business. She’s riding high until one event goes ...

Books and movies have always been my comfort. Well, that and napping. Even since I was a little kid those were the things I loved when I was sick.  I've been home with the flu since Thursday and, while it isn't the terribleawfulgross flu, it sucks. Obviously I've been keeping myself busy with books (if you follow this blog of me on Goodreads, you'd know), but today I wanted something that I knew I was going to love.  So I went with an old favorite that I knew would be perfect and make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I definitely have a sweet spot for St. Clair so seeing him again (after knowing how their story ends) was so much fun. I love how well he and Anna just fit . I think since you only read Anna'a point of view in the story you think that sometimes her feelings are one-sided, so you almost feel sorry for her. St. Clair, or Étienne, as she comes to call him is charismatic and charming...not to mention totally unavailable.  Despite her ...

The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda Publication Date: May 16, 2017 Pages: 384 (kindle) Genre: Fiction/Mystery My Goodreads Rating: 4 stars Goodreads Synopsis: In the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit All the Missing Girls , a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Pennsylvania, where Leah can get a teaching position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later. Determined to find Emmy, Leah cooperates with Kyle Donovan, a handsome young police officer on the case. As they investigate her friend’s life for clues, Leah begins to wonder: did she ever reall...