Reviews – Blue Mood Café

Once in a Blue Moon by Kristan Higgins @kristanhiggins @kristanhiggins.bsky.social @xesands @xesands.bsky.social @recordedbooks @recordedbooks.bsky.social #OnceInABlueMoon

the setup… Winnie Smith was Wellfleet’s most sought out event planner…until she wasn’t. Canceled by the “Mommy Mafia,” her business tanks almost overnight when the man she’d been involved with turns out to be married to her client who outed her…at their child’s birthday party. Winnie is the fourth of five children, the quiet, steady,… Continue reading Once in a Blue Moon by Kristan Higgins @kristanhiggins @kristanhiggins.bsky.social @xesands @xesands.bsky.social @recordedbooks @recordedbooks.bsky.social #OnceInABlueMoon

the setup… Honey Beckett takes an Uber to her tech billionaire husband’s funeral instead of a fancy hired car. Barney Beckett was larger than life and widely lauded as a genius in the AI development. She can’t believe he’s gone even though he was twice her age. When she reaches the funeral, she’s in for… Continue reading The Price of Honey by Liane Moriarty @lianemoriarty_official @antheagreco @amazonpublishing @brilliancepublishing #DeadlyAmbitionCollection #ThePriceOfHoney

the setup… Helena Ross is running out of time. She’s a best selling romance novelist and needs to get her last book done within three months…from start to finish. Helena has just learned she’s got a terminal illness and needs someone to ghostwrite the story, someone with talent and is a prolific writer. The person… Continue reading The Ghostwriter by A. R. Torre @alessandratorre4 #ErinSpencer @brilliancepublishing #TheGhostwriter

the setup… What if there was another side to the Cinderella fairy tale? Introducing Lady Etheldrada (Ethel) Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley, better known as the evil stepmother. She’s twice widowed with two daughters from her first marriage, Mathilde and Rosamund (Rosie), and stepdaughter Elin from her last. Both men left her virtually penniless except for… Continue reading Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser @hochhauser #BessieCarter @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #LadyTremaine

the setup… Single mother Elodie January left her home in Australia with her six-year old autistic son Jude for Virginia after a whirlwind romance with new husband Brendan (Bren) who is deeply devoted to her. She’s also pregnant, reveling in a her new and blissful life. That is until Jude complains about the sounds coming… Continue reading You Did Nothing Wrong by CG Drews @paperfury @saskiaaudio @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #YouDidNothingWrong

the setup… Waldo is a 17-year old daughter of a struggling single mother who was not much older than her when she got pregnant. She doesn’t have many friends (by choice), is lonely and desperate to be loved by someone who she wants to love back. Waldo is very good at her job at Victoria’s… Continue reading Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social @librofm @librofm.com #HalfHerAge

Life as Gisèle Pelicot once knew it changed in November 2020 when she received a call from the Avignon police, asking her to come to the station where her husband had been arrested for upskirting (taking photos or videos up women’s skirts). They discovered years of videos and photos on his laptop of her being… Continue reading A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot @gisele_pelicot #EmmaThompson @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #AHymnToLife

the setup… Keats Matthew’s is a university student struggling to make ends meet. He’s working as a server at a ritzy mansion where the pay will be substantial. During a cigarette break, he runs into a charming young woman who returns to the house before he gets her name. Later he discovers she’s Sosie Stansbury,… Continue reading Then There Was You by S. L. Scott @s.l.scott @mallonerin @tor_thom @hambright_pr #ThenThereWasYou

the setup… One man has forever altered the trajectory of three women’s lives. Birdie Chang was 9-years old when she was sexually assaulted by Calvin Boyd, a young man in his twenties. Linzie King was 13-years old when he sexually assaulted her. Mary-Beth Boyd loves her son unconditionally and chooses to blindly make excuses for… Continue reading Whidbey by T Kira Madden @tkiramadden @tkiramadden.bsky.social @eunicewongnarration @ladychristinamoore @miahutchinsonshaw @lobecca @marinerbooks @marinerbooks.bsky.social @librofm @librofm.com #Whidbey

the setup… Lily is on her way to the Colorado Rockies to scatter her late father’s ashes along with his best friend’s who recently died. Their families had spent every summer at the cabin and this had been their request. But she only agreed to come because Walker Shaw wasn’t going to be there. But… Continue reading Everybody’s Favorite Guy by Katherine Center @katherinecenter @elliegossage @brilliancepublishing #EverybodysFavoriteGuy

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