Introvert’s Book Club
Still working towards that personal pan pizza🍕
Monarch by Sophie Lark
Grimstone #2
Rating: 4/5
Spice: 2.5/5
Primary Genre: Romantic suspense
Trigger Warnings: Domestic violence, assault, alcohol use, drug use
Favorite Quote: I’m with you. I love you. I’ll protect you, I’ll take care of you. Carry me with you always and keep me in your heart. Because you are in mine.
Plot 5/5:
Elena is a 90 day fiance who had been desperately looking to leave Ukraine. She has just arrived in Grimstone, Oregon to marry her fiance Lorne. He’s a famous, wealthy thriller author. When they met in Ukraine he seemed like was a sweet, loving father and a kind/nerdy guy. Once she arrives, his behavior begins to change and not in a good way. Lorne is having a castle built for them to live in but there have been multiple construction delays so they are staying at the town’s historic hotel, The Monarch. The owner of the Monarch, Atlas, tries to protect Elena as Lorne get more twisted and vicious.
The Memo by Rachel Dodes, Lauren Mechling
Rating: 3.5/5
Spice: 0
Primary Genre: Women’s Fiction
Trigger Warnings: Emotional abuse, toxic relationship, toxic friendship, abandonment, drug use
Favorite Quote: No matter how hard I pounded the dough, I was never quite able to knead away the sense that I was committed to a guy who would never be fully committed to me.
Cole and Laila Are Just Friends by Bethany Turner
Rating: 3
Spice: 0
Primary Genre: Romance
Trigger Warnings: Mention of terminal illness, abandonment, alchohol/prescription drug use, death of a family member/parent
Favorite Quote: Who knew romantic comedy was such a brutal sport?
Plot 3/5:
Slow burn, friends to lovers, closed door romance. And when I say slow burn, we’re talking the slowest. This story is about a girl and a guy who live in a small town in Colorado, have known each other since they were little kids, and are extremely close best friends.
Birding With Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb
Celeste is divorced and is on a journey of discovery to find out who she is after losing herself in her marriage. She shows up at a park to meet with a guy who's squaring up with his ex.
Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan
This book started out very slow for me, I had a hard time getting into it. The first three chapters felt slower than molasses in January, then of a sudden it's like you're on the freeway and you realize that your brakes don't work. Ok, not that extreme
Summertime Punchline by Betty Corrello
You can never go home again until your life blows up and you have to. Down on her luck comedienne Del lands back in Evergreen, New Jersey after 10 years.
First Base (Chicago Heartbreakers Book 1) by Ally Wiegand
Maggie is a photographer for the Chicago Cougars MLB team who just acquired a new bad boy player named Tommy from San Diego.
Loyally Luke by Pepper Basham
Plot: Luke is an American carpenter visiting the foreign country of Skymar to help repair an orphanage. Elliana is a princess of the country who is overseeing the project.
How To Plot A Payback by Melissa Ferguson
This is my first time reading a Melissa Ferguson novel. Plot: In this book, two Brits who grew up together end up working on the same t.v. show in Hollywood.
Make Believe Proposal (Make-Believe #1) by Vivi Holt, Lilly Mirren
Plot: June is a nanny to the billionaire Roland and her boyfriend breaks up with her only to get engaged two weeks later. June's revenge plot is to make her ex see that she's happy and doing just fine without him and then her boss fake-proposes to her in front of her ex.
Make Believe Fiance (Make-Believe #2) by Vivi Holt
Set in Billings, MT. Gwen is a down on her luck, divorced waitress/3rd grade teacher and Heath is an extremely wealthy acting CEO of a ranching corporation. So when Heath is ready to take over as CEO (no acting) he realizes the fact that he's not married might be holding him back and asks Gwen to be his fake fiance in exchange for paying her first month's rent on a new apartment as she has just been evicted.
Bespoke and Bespelled (Movie Magic #1) by Karen Healey
You know that we love a good witchy read around here and this book is So. Freaking. Cute. Marnie is a "Stitch Witch" meaning that her magic is in fabric.
