October 2024 Reads
For the month of October, I read another series from Portia Moore(August: “If I Break” series, September: “HER” series). This one is totally different from the aforementioned 2 which I was happy about because my brain was a bit saturated with the subject matter from the last 2 series. Collided, Crushed, and Committed are quite a deaprture but still sensitive, uncomfortable, and would implore you to ask yourself, could you do the same? Gotta read the 3 books to find out. Then the last 2 books, “The Family Upstairs” and “The New Husband” were great reads as well.
COLLIDED by Portia Moore: 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Once, I thought I had found “the one” – he was rich, handsome, and irresistible. But there was a catch; he had a wife.
That betrayal left me scarred and wary of love. I’ve sworn off romance, or at least I’m supposed to be done with it. Then along comes Alex, the sizzling-hot bartender who not only becomes my friend but my confidant and biggest supporter.
Did I mention he’s drop-dead gorgeous with a body that could make anyone swoon? I’ve built walls around my heart, but when he smiles at me, my pulse races, and my body yearns for his touch.
Maybe, just maybe, I can convince my heart to take another chance, even if it means risking everything. (SOURCE: GoodReads)
CRUSHED by Portia Moore: 4⭐⭐⭐⭐
I never thought love was something I could ever have.
At one point I had been fooled with some version of it—lust wrapped up in a package resembling love—but when I met Alex I realized everything I ever felt for anyone before was just a cheap imitation. What I had with him was new, exciting, authentic.
For the first time in my life I saw a future for myself that included someone else. And for the first time I wasn’t afraid…until I met Alex’s dad and saw that fate wasn’t going to give me a break.
It wanted to decimate me. If Alex ever finds out the truth, it will crush me. It will crush all of us.(SOURCE: GoddReads)
COMMITTED by Portia Moore: 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My life exploded in a matter of moments.
One bad decision led to another, and what should have been the happiest time of my life became the worst I ever experienced. I never wanted to fall in love. It just happened.
I’d do anything to avoid losing it, but I have to think for someone else now. It isn’t just me…but I will do whatever it takes to make things right.
I’m committed to it.(SOURCE: GoodReads)
THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS by Lisa Jewell: 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.
She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.
Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.(SOURCE: GoodReads)
THE NEW HUSBAND by D.J Palmer: 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
What makes Simon Fitch so perfect?-He knows all her favorite foods, music, and movies. -Her son adores him. He was there when she needed him most. -He anticipates her every need. -He would never betray her like her first husband.The perfect husband. He checks all the boxes.The question is, why? Nina Garrity learned the hard way that her missing husband, Glen, had been leading a double life with another woman. But with Glen gone—presumably drowned while fishing on his boat—she couldn’t confront him about the affair or find closure to the life he blew apart. Now, a year and a half later, Nina has found love again and hopes she can put her shattered world back together. Simon, a widower still grieving the death of his first wife, thinks he has found his dream girl in Nina, and his charm and affections help break through to a heart hardened by betrayal.(SOURCE: GoodReads)
