A month for mysteries! And cute chick lit of course, because this mama needs some easy happy reading in her life! The fall is probably my favorite time of the year for mysteries though, and I have a couple of good ones for you this month!
“The Bodyguard” was a cute read, Hannah works for a high profile protection agency, and her newest assignment is a superstar named Jack. Jack comes to Texas because his mom is sick, and it’s Hannah’s job to keep him safe from over enthusiastic fans. Of course there have been some threats on his life, and so she has to stay with him 24/7. Loved following their story, and seeing how Hannah solves the mystery threat against him.
“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” was a great mystery read. Pip decides to focus on a murder of a young girl that happened years ago as her senior project. While everyone feels like the murder has been solved, Pip never believed that her childhood friend killed the girl. Pip makes a lot of progress in figuring out what happened, and that things may not be tied up as nicely as everyone thinks.
I have officially fallen in love with Melissa Ferguson. I read “Meet Me in the Margins” this month and loved it. The story was so cute, and what was even better was that it was SO clean! I was like “Hallelujah, finally an author who writes clean rom-coms!” haha!!! Savannah works for a publishing company, but secretly dreams of writing a romance novel. She has a manuscript that she submits to another publishing company, since hers focuses on different genres, and gets feedback that it has potential that it’s not there yet. She accidentally drops her manuscript in a meeting, so he resorts to hiding it in a secret closet space in their office. An unknown person also finds her secret space and reads through her manuscript, leaving notes in the margins for her to make improvements. They go back and forth until she finishes her book, getting to know each other in the process. It’s super cute and fun!
Whew… “The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” was a doozy to get through. This book was crazy, I don’t know how else to put it haha…but while crazy, it was so impressive that the author could keep everything straight throughout the novel, it was so well put together. Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered each day until Aiden Bishop can solve her murder. He wakes up each time as a different person or host in the big house, learning bits and pieces of the scenario until he can finally put it all together and end these crazy cycles. It was hard to follow at times, and I felt like I kind of had to muddle through it, but it was one of those books I was really proud of myself for finishing because I wanted to quit about 17 times haha! Definitely requires a certain kind of reader I think.
Well “What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw” was one of my least favorite books of the whole entire year. I saw this as a recommendation on an instagram book account I follow, and I was thoroughly disappointed in it. Charlie Outlaw has recently broken up with his girlfriend after an interview gone wrong, so to make sense of his life he leaves to visit a remote island. He is abducted soon after, and his ex girlfriend is so worried and missing him that she ends up figuring out where he traveled to and finding out what happened. I also felt like quitting this one, but I also wanted to see what happened to him so I kept reading. I just wasn’t written well in my opinion, not very believable.
I thought that little meme for so cute haha, it is exactly how I feel about reading! I love reading for entertainment but I also love learning, I feel like life long learning is so important and what better way to learn than to read?
If you’re interested in seeing what else I have read this year, check out my links to other months below and lots more book reviews under my Book tab!
What I’m Reading – January 2022
What I’m Reading – February 2022