One thing that I have learned to embrace about myself; my mood dictates what I enjoy reading. For the past several months, my mood has been about all things fiction.
Okay, you got me! I have gotten slightly sidetracked. I started off sharing my mood for fiction so that you would not ask me how my 2021 reading list was coming. Let’s just say 2022 gives me another opportunity to satisfy my curious spirit, and I am sure that my mood will eventually lead me back to my 2021 reading list.
If you are in the mood for fiction, here are 3 books I recently finished that you might want to add to your list.
Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey
In Feels Like Falling, Kristy Woodson Harvey has again introduced the world to characters who know how to turn “chicken shit into chicken salad.”
Goodreads Synopsis:
It’s summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin’ is easy. Unless, that is, you’ve just lost your mother to cancer, your sister to her extremist husband, and your husband to his executive assistant. Meet Gray Howard. Right when Gray could use a serious infusion of good karma in her life, she inadvertently gets a stranger, Diana Harrington, fired from her job at the local pharmacy. Diana Harrington’s summer isn’t off to the greatest start either: Hours before losing her job, she broke up with her boyfriend and moved out of their shared house with only a worn-out Impala for a bed. Lucky for her, Gray has an empty guest house and a very guilty conscience. With Gray’s kindness, Diana’s tide begins to turn. But when her first love returns, every secret from her past seems to resurface all at once. And, as Gray begins to blaze a new trail, she discovers, with Diana’s help, that what she envisioned as her perfect life may not be what she wants at all.
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Dang! That Colleen Hoover sure knows how to use words to make you visualize every scene. I felt sorry for Lowen and wanted to send her a copy of Vibin’ With Tonza: Affirmations and Activities to Encourage You On Your Path To Empowerment. This book made me keep asking myself, “what would I do?” Needless to say, this suspenseful, dark book was a stark contrast to Kristy Woodson Harvey’s Feels Like Falling.
Goodreads Synopsis:
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity’s recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.
Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.
Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella
I find Sophie Kinsella’s books delightfully quirky. Despite the main characters appearing to be awkward misfits, they always manage to overcome life’s obstacles and find their happy place in the world without foregoing the core of who they are.
Goodreads Synopsis:
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed.
Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband—who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she…well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all.
Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?
With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament…
There you go! Curl up, enjoy, and be sure to send me your recommendations! I am always looking to immerse myself in someone else’s world.
Much Love,
Tonza
Thanx for your moods that dictate what we get…..Much Love to ya.
You’re welcome😊
Hope this satisfies your craving for fiction. Enjoy…