Wynn in Doubt, by Emily Hemmer

Wynn in Doubt by Emily Hemmer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

See what you did Maanika?? A chance post by a friend on Facebook, a look at Amazon and suddenly the afternoon was gone! I had to read it in one sitting. My poor neglected husband came home from work while I was still reading and never said a word when I told him we were scrounging dinner, as I finished my fried eggs and sausage links and then wandered back in to the bedroom with my Kindle, haha. In my defense, I did make Toll House Cookie bars before I got sucked into the book! So there was that, at least...

By the time I wandered back out my eyes were puffy from bawling my eyes out, which made him look at me and immediately ask, "Are you okay?" and be all worried 'til I told him it was just my latest book, haha.

Honestly, with this book you get two stories for the price of one, a story within a story, so to speak. There's not exactly the HEA I wanted for both stories, but I can live with that ;) It was definitely a mixture of happy and sad tears.

It took me a bit of time to get into, but once the Kentucky trip happened, I was hooked and I really did read it straight through to the end. I totally related to Wynn, when she couldn't stop reading the diary, and went out in to the hallway to read so as not to disturb Oliver, haha.


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Silver Linings, by Debbie Macomber

Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Ick.  Just ick.  The Jo Marie/ Mark saga once again drags on and on.  The guests at Jo's Inn were annoying as hell.  Seriously, you're 10 years out of high school and you still want revenge on a boy?  Grow up.  High school sucked, move on.

It was so bad, I couldn't wade through it and I finally skipped to the end, just to have it done with.

I've long been a Debbie Macomber fan, up until now, I've read every book in her multiple series.  The ending of this book ended that.  It pissed me off enough that I will probably never read another book by this author.

First there was the oh so convenient HAE for the stuck in high school girls.  But what really left a sour taste was the cliff hanger ending for Jo Marie and Mark.

What I have always liked about book series is the fact that we get to meet the same characters throughout, but each book is its own stand alone chapter that furthers the series.  With this series, not only has there been little to no progress with the main characters, now it feels to me that the author isn't sure enough of their appeal and her writing to believe that readers will pick up the next series because they want/need more, so she had to forcefully create that need with a cliff hanger.

But as far as I am concerned, Jo Marie can continue being a wishy-washy widow, wringing her hands and Mark can fall off that cliff and stay/die in Afghanistan!  I won't be reading any further.


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