Book Review of 'Fall When You're Ready' by Jennifer Carr

Happy Taco Tuesday Bookworms!

I can't help but think about tacos today, especially when my oldest works at a taco shop and brings home tacos for me almost every Tuesday.  It's such a sweet gesture, even though my waistline disagrees, and I've had to dial it back the past few weeks.  There is nothing about taking that first bite into a crunch taco, am I right?  But you're not here to talk about tacos, are you?  

I'm normally not a fan of the friends-to-lovers troupe but the novel that I am featuring today has such heart that I couldn't help but be won over.  It's the first book that I've read by this author, and the first novel in a brand-new series, and let me just say that Jennifer Carr's got a new fan right here.  I hope you enjoy my thoughts on Fall When You're Ready and don't forget to scroll to the bottom of this post and check out the amazing giveaway from JustRead Tours!

Welcome to the Blog Tour for Fall When You're Ready by Jennifer Carr, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book

Title: Fall When You're Ready
Series: Real American Country #1 
Author: Jennifer Carr
Publisher: JCarr Writes
Release Date: February 1, 2024
Genre: Contemporary Clean Romance

Rachel never wanted to get in the way of Jordan’s dreams, but they were supposed to chase their dreams together. They made promises and swore to remain best friends through it all. But, just as all good things must come to an end, it would seem that applies to promises as well. When Rachel and Jordan end up on separate paths toward their own versions of success, they each learn the hard way that letting go is easier than it sounds. But when those paths bring them both home, all of those promises come flooding back and they have to decide whether it’s worth the risk to reopen the chapter they closed on their story so long ago.  

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Book Review of 'Weddings & Wishes' by Melissa McClone

Happy Wednesday Bookworms!

Today I am super excited to be sharing my thoughts on the latest installment of one of my favorite series!  The Berry Lake Cupcake Posse has become one of my all-time favorites and I can't believe there is only one book left in the series!  I am choosing to be in denial about this fact, and will instead savor the delicious novel that is Weddings & Wishes.

About the Book

Title: Weddings & Wishes

Series: Berry Lake Cupcake Posse #4

Author: Melissa McClone

Publisher: Cardinal Press

Release Date: July 9, 2023

Genre: Contemporary Women Fiction

Find out what's next for Nell, Selena, Bria, Juliet, and Missy...

Friendship has kept the Berry Lake Cupcake Posse going, and they’ll need each other even more to survive the challenges life keeps throwing at them. But their struggles to reopen beloved Berry Lake Cupcake Shop might just break them apart.

The Berry Lake Cupcake Posse series is a women's fiction saga about friendship and family. These books aren't standalone, and there are cliffhangers. The series is best enjoyed when the books are read in order:

Book 1: Cupcakes & Crumbs
Book 2: Tiaras & Teacups
Book 3: Kittens & Kisses
Book 4: Weddings & Wishes 

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Book Review: Tiaras & Teacups by Melissa McClone

Series: Berry Lake Cupcake Posse #2

Publisher: Cardinal Press, LLC

Release Date: April 22, 2021

Genre: Friendship Fiction

Sometimes the sweetest beginnings come from bitter endings…

Juliet Monroe’s comfortable world has been turned upside down. She’s struggling to leave her trophy wife identity behind and make ends meet as an event planner. When her handsome new neighbor needs to throw the perfect birthday party for his niece, Juliet offers her services. If she pulls this off, maybe she can get her life back on track. But to do so, she’ll need the help of the Cupcake Posse. Too bad her friends are grappling with problems of their own:

Missy’s recovering from injuries; Nell’s trying to thwart her mother’s matchmaking efforts; Selena’s trying to make things happen for her friends and herself; and Bria’s facing obstacles she never anticipated trying to save her late aunt’s bakery.

Join the Cupcake Posse as they work together to navigate the difficulties of life, loss, and love. They continue to rely on each other, never losing sight of the importance of friendship and family, but will that be enough to save the Berry Lake Cupcake Shop?

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Book Review: Road Trip by Evangeline Kelly

Release Date: May 1, 2016

Genre: Christian Short Story

When college student, Kendra Hensley’s car breaks down she knows she needs a solution—fast. Her cousin Chloe’s wedding is the following day and she needs to get from Northern California to Los Angeles. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have enough money to fix her car, much less buy a bus ticket. When Jake Bellomy, the hot Biology lab partner from last semester, offers to give her a ride home, she takes him up on his offer, even though she knows things are bound to get tense since he traded her for another partner in their Biology class. Kendra knows he’s a jerk, but what she doesn’t realize is that God has a way of revealing that people aren’t always what they appear to be.

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Book Review: Cupcakes & Crumbs by Melissa McClone

Series: Berry Lake Cupcake Posse: Book 1

Publisher: Cardinal Press, LLC

Release Date: November 17, 2020

Genre: Friendship Fiction

When Bria Landon and her estranged father each inherit fifty percent of a small-town cupcake shop, her dad hires her worst enemy, and first love, to turn the place into a soulless franchise…or sell it. To save her aunt’s legacy, Bria needs the help of people who love the bakery as much as she does—her old friends who worked there fifteen years ago. Except each woman is dealing with her own problem:

Juliet, who's trying to prove she’s more than a trophy wife; Missy, a widow who fears losing the job she loves; Nell, who's meddling mother won't stop playing matchmaker; and Selena, a life coach who excels at fixing everyone else's lives...but hasn't a clue what's missing in her own.

Each woman wants to believe their friendship can overcome anything. But as the Berry Lake Cupcake Posse reunite to save their beloved cupcake shop, they soon discover the undertaking will bring more trouble than they expected.

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Reviewer Tour: Tethered by Eleanor Bertin

 Welcome to the Reviewer Tour for Tethered by Eleanor Bertin, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Tethered

Series: The Mosaic Collection: Book 12

Author: Eleanor Bertin

Publisher: Leaf & Blade Publishing

Release Date: July 8, 2020

Genre: Contemporary Christian Fiction

Perfectionistic librarian Jacqui Penn is ripped up by the roots when she’s dumped by her longtime boyfriend. Rootless and on the run, she is drawn two thousand miles west across Canada to the last place she ever thought could offer stability—the old homestead where her father grew up.

Renovating the derelict house soon becomes a personal battle as it stubbornly resists her efforts. While Jacqui struggles to renew the home, she spends time with the family Pops bitterly resented. Her hunger for roots grows stronger as she fights to discover the long-buried reasons her father fled the house as a beleaguered teen. But will she ever find the belonging she craves?

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Blog & Review Tour: Little Tea by Claire Fullerton

 

Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour & Giveaway for Little Tea by Claire Fullerton, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Little Tea
Author: Claire Fullerton
Publisher: Firefly Southern Fiction
Release Date: May 1, 2020
Genre: Southern Fiction

Southern Culture … Old Friendships … Family Tragedy

One phone call from Renny to come home and “see about” the capricious Ava and Celia Wakefield decides to overlook her distressful past in the name of friendship. 

For three reflective days at Renny’s lake house in Heber Springs, Arkansas, the three childhood friends reunite and examine life, love, marriage, and the ties that bind, even though Celia’s personal story has yet to be healed. When the past arrives at the lake house door in the form of her old boyfriend, Celia must revisit the life she’d tried to outrun.

As her idyllic coming of age alongside her best friend, Little Tea, on her family’s ancestral grounds in bucolic Como, Mississippi unfolds, Celia realizes there is no better place to accept her own story than in this circle of friends who have remained beside her throughout the years. Theirs is a friendship that can talk any life sorrow into a comic tragedy, and now that the racial divide in the Deep South has evolved, Celia wonders if her friendship with Little Tea can triumph over history.

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One of the Girls

Series: The Friendzone Series

Publisher: Bluefields

Release Date: June 20, 2019

Genre: Teen & YA 

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The Songs of You and Me

My Rating: ★★★★

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