Monday, August 10, 2026

REVIEW: P.S. I Hate You by Lauren Connelly

 



OUR REVIEW:

PS I Hate You was one of those lucky NetGalley finds. I saw it many months ago and it sounded interesting and so once school ended, I started it and found that I absolutely could not put it down. It was suprisingly sweet and sad and funny. I thought Connelly did a great job of creating a Maddie who was furious in her grief and creating a target: Dom. Dom, the guy Maddie had been convincing herself for too long that she hated, after one wonderful night a decade ago. Now these two are thrown together to complete her brother's dying wish and as they complete each task, we get to understand a little more about why she's so intent on holding on to her anger and sadness. 

I truly didn't anticipate the gut punch of emotion that was sprinkled throughout this novel, but I needed it. I needed a book to provoke me and it did. I hope there are more books like this in her backlist and I'm looking forward to exploring them. 

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SYNOPSIS: 
Maddie Sanderson would be proud to honor her older brother’s dying wish, that she scatters his ashes over eight destinations that the adventurous 29-year-old never got to visit before he died from cancer. But in his will, Josh assigned her an impossible partner to help complete the mission—Dominic Perry. Seriously, if Maddie weren’t already at his funeral, she would have killed him for this.

Sure, Dom was Josh’s life-long best friend. He’s also the infuriating man who broke Maddie’s heart back when she was naïve enough to give it to him. But since Dom insists on following the rules and Josh didn’t leave much room for Maddie to argue the matter, they embark together on a farewell trip that spans thousands of miles, exploring new places and revisiting their complicated history along the way.

After a snowstorm leads to a shared bed, Maddie starts to wonder if her brother might be matchmaking from the grave. But when grief also reopens old wounds between them, Maddie will need more than Josh’s ghostly guidance to trust Dom again.

Monday, August 3, 2026

REVIEW: By the Bootstraps by Alexa Martin

 



OUR REVIEW:

This is my new favorite Alexa Martin novel. From the minute I picked up Luna Starr's quest to outrun her miserable past, I was hooked. I loved Luna and her funny internal monologue, her friendships with Gabby and her new friends in Celestial, and the continual hope that this new place gave her. I loved this idealized small town and the people in it. I loved the way she navigated things with Tate and Silas. And I loved that everything worked out in the end. I see that this is the first book in a series and I cannot wait for the next book...and I hope that there are many, many books in this series because I can already tell I'm not going to get enough of these characters and this small town romance. 


SYNOPSIS:
A cowboy romance enthusiast discovers that everything’s bigger in Texas—even love—in this swoony novel from beloved author Alexa Martin.

Fueled by a love of romance novels, Luna Starr was destined for a life with her head in the clouds. Her delusional tendencies serve her well…or at least they used to. When life throws her a curveball, she decides it’s time to turn her cowboy fantasies into reality and purchases a tiny farm in Celestial, Texas. After all, don’t all heroines try to outrun grief?

Tate Jacobs hates cowboys, which is a small problem, considering his family happens to own the largest ranch in Celestial. Life might not have gone the way he wanted, but as head coach at his old high school and the town’s best (and only) handyman, he’s figured out how to stay busy and keep his head down—until the new girl in town shows up. Luna’s new property is a bad accident waiting to happen unless someone helps her with her DIY home renovations.

As Tate and Luna spend more time together fixing up her house, unexpected feelings and undeniable chemistry bubble to the surface. Luna might’ve moved to Celestial to make her cowboy dreams come true, but somewhere beneath the vast Texas skies, she discovers that love in the real world can be far better than she imagined.

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