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I thought this was good, but it really rode the edge of too cringey for me. Ashley is a first-time mom who is struggling like a lot of first-time moms. She doesn’t know who she is anymore, she feels like she can’t get a handle on routine household tasks, she feels inferior to her sister (also a first-time mom), not to mention the pressure of
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This was decent, but not nearly as good as some other Anne Rivers Siddons books I’ve read. As usual, the location plays a large part in the atmosphere of the book. Here we get 3 different faces of South Carolina — old money Charleston, the beach, and the low country — and each does its part. Unfortunately, I wish she’d spent as much time on
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Joshilyn Jackson has long been on my “to read” list, but this is the first book of hers that I’ve actually gotten around to picking up. And I loved it. There was so much in the book that spoke to me… from a woman experiencing a pregnancy at an “advanced” age, to the trickiness of navigating life in a small town, to having a grandparent
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Sophie has a secret, one that her doctor husband and fancy friends would never guess. Seventeen years ago, Sophie’s mother Grace killed Sophie’s baby brother, and she now sits on death row. This book follows the stretch of time between Grace and Sophie finding out what her execution date is and that date. You get alternating view points, from Sophie’s point of view and through
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