October 2022 Reading List

(London Calling #2)

Alexis Hall

Fiction, Romance, LBGTQIA+

2022

Synopsis:

WANTED: One (very real) husband, nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best
In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends…and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc’s feeling the social pressure to propose. But it’ll take more than four weddings, a funeral, and a hotly contested rainbow balloon arch to get these two from I don’t know what I’m doing to I do.
Good thing Oliver is such perfect HUSBAND MATERIAL.

My Thoughts:

I LOVED the first book, Boyfriend Material. I listened to both of these on audio as I love the narrator, Joe Jameson. A really funny read, but with serious subjects. Luc and Oliver are one of my favorite couples that I’ve had the pleasure to read about. Their relationship is so pure and sweet and I just adore them as a couple. I really hope there will be a third book in the series as I don’t want their story to end.

You do need to read the first book, Boyfriend Material, to really understand this storyline.

Mad Honey

Audiobook

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

2022

Fiction

Synopsis:
Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life–living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher–was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father’s beekeeping business.
Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start.
And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can trust him completely. . . .
Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in Ash, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her.
Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves.

My Thoughts:

LOVED the beginning of this book. I couldn’t stop reading. I love it when a book has a huge twist that you didn’t see coming and this book definitely delivered on that. However, the second half of the book felt like a totally different book at times. The story was very suspenseful and really talked about a mother’s love for her children.

Overall a good storyline. For sure check trigger warnings for this one! Also, you will learn A LOT about bees.

Scandalized

Audiobook
Ivy Owens

2022

Synopsis:
Exhausted and on deadline with a story that could make or break her career, investigative journalist Georgia Ross is on the verge of a meltdown when a cancelled flight leaves her stuck in the airport overnight. But when a familiar face appears–the older brother of her childhood friend–and offers help, Gigi seems to have caught a break.
Alec Kim is handsome, humble, and kind–exactly the sort of man that Gigi has forgotten existed after her own painful heartbreaks. An evening of reconnection followed by a night of no-strings-attached passion with Alec feels like a gift–that is, until Gigi finally realizes that their childhood connection isn’t the only reason he seems so familiar to her.
Alec is determined to prove to Gigi that he is truly the man she thinks he is, even if it means coming clean about his fame–and his family’s connection to the story Gigi’s been working so hard to break. But as their feelings for each other grow deeper, Gigi and Alec must navigate a new reality…one where both of their hard-won careers are put directly in the path of an international scandal.

My Thoughts:

Celebrity romance. A bit of mystery. Steamy. I for sure pictured Henry Golding as Alex the entire time I was reading about Alec! This was a book that was blasted all over bookstagram. I didn’t love it as much as others did, but I thought it was an easy read.

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