Review: The Kosher Conundrum (Last Girls Standing #4) by Stacey Agdern

When disaster strikes, it’s time to make a fake dating scheme with her best friend.

Wedding and event planner Naomi Nachman’s carefully planned life just went up in smoke. When her impossible boss suddenly retires, canceling a multitude of contracts, Naomi’s career and her cousin’s wedding are tanked in one fell swoop. Now Naomi must rebuild her reputation and save the wedding by turning to the one man she can trust.

Jason Greenblatt is facing his own career crisis. Thanks to one tabloid-style photo, his traditional family thinks he’s more playboy than professional chef. He needs to prove himself or his hopes to work in his family’s celebrated knish business will slip out of reach, which is the only reason he entertains Naomi’s audacious proposal.

But as they work together to fix the broken pieces of their lives, sparks fly and the fake partnership begins to feel real, Naomi and Jason discover that the toughest challenge isn’t salvaging reputations or even staging the perfect kosher celebration. It’s risking their hearts. 

A sweet and swoony Jewish rom-com perfect for anyone who loves fake dating, foodie romance, and best-friends-to-lovers sparks. 

 

My Review: 

An entertaining friends to lovers romance. 

Best friends, Naomi and Jason, finally give in and make the move from friends to more, while working on Naomi’s cousin’s wedding.  This is one of those stories where everything has to fall apart before it gets put back together.  I enjoyed watching Naomi and Jason’s relationship grow and catching up with characters from previous books in the series.  This is a well written and entertaining story with great characters and a n interesting plot.   

 

Review: The Warrior’s Vow (Unbreakable SEALs Book 3) By Charlee James

 

Can a wounded warrior and a healer fight their way to safety and find a future together?

It started as a regular team mission to rescue aid workers and children—dangerous like so many others. But it quickly derails when one of the hostages kills two of her captors and escapes by jumping into the Amazon River. Sully Carter saves her from drowning, but he’s shot, and it’s a race to the extraction point before infection can set in and endanger his life.

Internationally based traveling nurse Jane Laurier has been betrayed before and is no stranger to danger. She’s clueless about how to deal with a man who’s kind, wants to take care of her and looks at her as if she’s special. Feeling like she owes him her life, and guilty because his distinguished career might be over, she stays by his side, taking on the role of protector.

As Sully slowly heals, he starts thinking about a future with Jane, never dreaming they will face a bigger threat on the home front.

 

My Review:

An exciting and unpredictable book. 

It was supposed to be just another mission; get in and rescue Jane and the other hostages and be done.  But Sully ended up seriously injured.  Jane ended up staying with him and taking care of him.  During his recovery, it became evident he was still in danger. This time from someone he thought he could trust.  This is a high energy book with lots of twists and also a lot of passion.  I read it in record time.  It is that good. 

 

 

 

Review: Every Other New Year’s Eve (Any Time Now Book 1) by Michelle Dayton

The point of magic is not to understand it. The point is not to waste it…

Paige Larsen is riding high on her future when she drops into a bar on New Year’s Eve 2019 for a celebratory drink. Will Weber, too, is excited about his life’s direction. Despite clashing personalities—and unexpected physical attraction—they quickly become friends while grooving to 1970s music in this unique joint.

But when Paige and Will each try to find the bar the following day, they realize the night was even more magical than they believed. It seems this bar appears for only a handful of hours every two years in an abandoned city lot on December 31. What’s more, Paige and Will are living in different timelines two years apart.

Over a span of eight years and a multitude of life changes, Paige and Will connect deeply in a fantasy situation that allows them to be their messy, imperfect, vulnerable selves.

Then suddenly, the enchantment—and the bar—disappear for good. Can love offer the magic they need to create a real-life happy ever after?

 

My Review:

Finding love at a magical bar. 

This book is totally different than anything else I have ever read.  I laughed, I cried, I cheered on the couples who visited Charley’s, a bar that magically appeared every other New Year’s Eve and reunited couples, from different time realms, for one night only.  I really enjoyed learning about Paige and Will and now I am curious about the lives of the other couples in the book. I didn’t want it to end.  It put me in a happy place where anything seemed possible.