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My Goodreads rating: 2 of 5 stars My Reading Cove rating: 4/10 - Average (C) Goodreads Synopsis: Is this all there is?  I hadn’t had so much as a sniff of a shag for over a year. I scraped the last dregs of Caramel Chew Chew ice cream out of the bottom of the tub with my finger and licked it. It left a sticky smear on my phone’s screen when I typed into Google, “How to find love, sex and happiness.” Charlotte has always been a good girl. She sorts her paper from her plastic. She eats her greens (even Spirulina, whatever that is). Boozy brunches with her best friends on the third Sunday of every month are about as bad as she gets. But being good is getting boring… Charlotte’s not just stuck in a rut – she’s buried in it up to her chin. The only company she has in bed is the back catalogue of Netflix and falling in love feels like the stuff of fairy tales. So when she stumbles across a popular podcast,  Sorry Not Sorry , which challenges women to embrace thei...

My Goodreads rating: 2 of 5 stars My ReadingCove rating: 3/10 (C-) BELOW AVERAGE Goodreads Synopsis: When Madison Westin, the main character, inherits her aunt's beachfront motel in the Florida Keys, or so she thinks. Tarpon Cove is not your typical sleepy beach town: Seduction, drunks, ex-cons and fugitives are not the usual fare for someone looking to start a new chapter in their life. Wrestling control of the property from both the lawyer and the conniving motel manager will be no easy feat. But Madison likes living on the edge so she feels right at home. Bullets fly, a dead body turns up, a kidnapping and blackmail. Madison really has to learn not to leave home without her Glock or it could get her killed. My Thoughts: Crazy in Paradise is an apt title for this book. I thought the beginning had promise, I like quirky. But I started to struggle with the first couple of interactions between Madison and Zach and it made me start to check-out on the story but I kept re...

The Twenty-Three by Linwood Barclay My Goodreads rating: 2 of 5 stars My Personal rating: 4/10 (C) AVERAGE Amazon.com Synopsis: From  New York Times  and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes the jaw-dropping finale of the Promise Falls Trilogy. It’s May 23, and small town Promise Falls finds itself in the midst of a full-blown catastrophe with dozens dead from a flu-like virus. Investigator Cal Weaver quickly zeros in on mass poisoning and a tainted water supply. Meanwhile, a college student has been murdered, and Detective Barry Duckworth recognizes a killer’s handiwork from the unsolved homicides of two women in town. Suddenly, the strange events from the last month start to add up….Bloody mannequins in car “23” of an abandoned Ferris wheel…a fiery, out-of-control bus with “23” on the back…“23” on the hoodie of a man accused of assault. The motive for hurting the people of this town points to the number 23—and working out why will bring Duckw...

Happy New Year Everyone! I trust you all had a safe and happy holidays, as the New Year has come I am looking forward to my plans for the year.  I have decided to set a goal for 35 books this year and my January reading plans will get me started in the right direction. Here is my current plan for January: THE TWENTY THREE by Linwood Barclay for a buddy read in The Reading Cove book group. CRAZY IN PARADISE by Deborah Brown a buddy read in The Reading Cove book group. SORRY NOT SORRY by Sophie Ranald for The Reading Cove Group Read THE CHESTNUT MAN by  Søren Sveistrup  f or my work book club (Odessa Book Club) THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR by Shari Lapena for my neighborhood book club (Pagewalkers Book Club) and If by chance I have any free reading time: BLIND SIDE - a recommendation from a friend  All this said, I typically read 2 books a month on average so I definitely have some reading to do to keep up with this. Loo...