Book Review - Love On A Whim

Cape Cod Creamery fans rejoice! Suzanne Woods Fisher has brought the Dixon women back, along with the rest of the citizens of Chatham and a whole new storyline in which dear Brynn has lost her ever loving mind and gotten married to a stranger in Vegas. When reality hits with the break of dawn, Brynn calls her best friend and is encouraged to visit Dawn in the cozy community on the Massachusetts shore to lick her wounds and find her path. But finding her path is not as easy as it seems, especially when distractions fall into the hands of the Dixons, keeping everyone too busy to figure a way out for Brynn before things become more complicated than anyone could imagine.

Fisher has created a cozy community that, by this third book, has started to feel like home. My mind clearly sees the creamery, Intuitive Cooking School, and library as we visit each location through out the story. The strand of beach where our friends tend to walk to clear their minds, clear the air, or seek a holy moment is well known by now. Fisher has brought back familiar elements with a fresh new arc that keeps things interesting and entertaining throughout with themes of regret and reconciliation, as well as family and faith in the divine plan of the Almighty.

Love On A Whim, Cape Cod Creamery series book three, by Suzanne Woods Fisher is available now from your favorite local bookseller or online:

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Thank you to the author and publisher for allowing me a copy to read and review. All opinions expressed here are my own and are completely genuine.

Book Review - The Song of Sourwood Mountain

In her latest release, The Song of Sourwood Mountain, Ann H. Gabhart delivers a tale of sorrows and joy in the Appalachian backcountry at the beginning of the 20th century. Gordon Covington, missionary to the tiny Kentucky community of Sourwood, has come into the big city to find a schoolteacher. But the Lord’s direction tells him to also make Mira Dean his wife. His proposal to the former schoolmate, turned schoolteacher, strikes her as quite shocking and certainly an offer to be refused. However, God has plans for Mira beyond Louisville. And as I have personally learned, sometimes God shoves you kicking and screaming into the place where He means for you to thrive. This is precisely what happens to Mira as Gabhart delivers us all to the hills and hollers where Preacher Gordon introduces the colorful characters who live there and their varied strengths and weaknesses.

Gabhart uses great detail to immerse the reader into the small mountain community, building characters who leap from the page to tug your heartstrings. More than the tale of Gordon and Mira growing into the relationship designed for them by the Almighty, we get to witness the sorrows and joys of various members of the community who we grow to love in this narrative. The balance of those lows and highs in the lives of its people create the song of Sourwood Mountain, the heartbeat of the hills that captivates until the very last note, leaving a sense of home in the heart of the reader.

The Song of Sourwood Mountain by Ann H. Gabhart is available now from your favorite local bookseller or online:

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Thank you to the author and publisher for allowing me a copy to read and review. All opinions expressed here are my own and are completely genuine.

Book Review - Sandcastle Inn

Irene Hannon brings us back to Hope Harbor in Sandcastle Inn, the tenth book in her series. This installment brings us into the lives of veterinarian Matt Quinn and Vienna Price, a career driven go getter in limbo. In the wake of personal tragedy, Matt finds himself on a working vacation, unprepared for the amount of work it will take to help his sister Kay with her coastal B&B in need of renovation. He desperately needs a contractor and an advisor who is skilled in revamping boutique properties with an image problem. As usual, Hope Harbor delivers in spades, bringing Vienna into his orbit in a way that catches them both off balance.

Sandcastle Inn is a love letter from Hannon to anyone struggling with grief, shame, and family strife. She does not dance around the issues, and though it reads as fiction, she packs a great deal of truth and hope in the storyline. There is no doubt the longtime residents of Hope Harbor we have grown to know and love are patiently guiding forces along the way: Bev, Charley, Father Murphy and Reverend Baker, Floyd and Gladys. Their roles in this book feel like they were written just for this specific storyline, but anyone who has read any of the nine books before will feel the same way about each one. Hannon writes with such familiarity that this is not the first time I have caught myself longing for a vacation to this fictional seaside town, dreaming of a cookie from the jar on the counter at Bev’s Book Nook or tacos and a word of wisdom from Charley. If you are looking for the perfect beach read, your search is over!

Sandcastle Inn by Irene Hannon, the tenth in her Hope Harbor series, is available now from your favorite local bookseller or online:

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Thank you to the author and publisher for allowing me a copy to read and review. All opinions expressed here are my own and are completely genuine.