I have been reading Jayne’s & My Book Club Books as well but I read this between two of our books.  This is the first Colleen Hoover book I have read and it was well written.  The story is contracted into a few weeks and you are kept guessing as to who is responsible. 

Verity is a famous author who has had success with her novels.  However she was involved in a bad accident which has left her unable to do anything and is basically in a living coma.  Lowen is also an author but not so successful and is, in fact, really struggling financially until Jeremy Crawford, Verity’s husband, proposes that Lowen finishes the last three novels in Verity’s series.  Lowen is not sure if she can do this but Jeremy persuades her to come to the family home and go through Verity’s notes and then decide.

Lowen gets there to find Verity’s office in a mess and she needs to go through everything before even being able to write an outline for the first of the three books.  What she does find is an autobiography by Verity and as she starts to read it, family secrets come out including the death of Verity’s two daughters. How can Lowen write the books now knowing what she does?  

I did sort of enjoy the book although some of it I did skip due to it being repetitive with some of the chapters.  At the end there is a twist and I don’t know whether I agree with how it ended!  I don’t want to give the ending away but on this basis and what I have heard about her other novel, which is now a controversial film, I don’t think I will be reading any other of her novels.  I gave it four stars in the end.

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I have managed to find a great App for my phone called BootBeat.  You get a trial period of 20 hours of listening or reading, after which it is £6.99 per month and you can cancel at any time.  There is a Standard package for £10.99 a month and the final Premium package which is £17.99 a month, this is for 100 hours a month which is the one I went for after my trial period.  The range of books is amazing, especially in the Crime & Thriller section, which is the one I use most.  I have managed to find some new authors, some are successful and some not so much.  I tend to listen to them when I am at Eldest’s working or when I am doing my home jobs. 

This was really good and of course is available in paperback as well as audio.  The narration is very good.

Jess Pendle is sat in A&E with her partner on New Year’s Eve.  She has a black eye and her arm is hurting and she has to tell the Doctor and Nurses that she fell down the stairs because if she doesn’t Liam will hurt her even more when they get home.  A kind Doctor asks Jess if she needs help and after all the months of abuse she says she does.  She reports the assault to the Police who take notes but Jess does not feel that they are taking much notice of her.  The Doctor also gives her information of a support group and she goes and meets other women who are in the same situation.  As she gets to know some of these women she is told about the underground group, who are more pro-active than just talking!  

I really liked this audiobook and I gave it four stars because of the ending which left you a bit high and dry.  I have since found out that there is a Book 2 coming out next year to carry on the story which now makes sense!  I will be getting it either in book form or on audio!

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To show you that the audiobooks are not all old this book was published in March this year.  It is really good and it was my first Five star audiobook!

Verity has been married to Linden Lockwood for five years and they have a perfect marriage.  Albeit Verity is the one earning the money in the family, Linden is an author but has not written anything for a while.  When Verity returns from a business trip she finds Linden in their home murdered in a robbery!  Her world tips and she feels that she is unable to move on from this terrible event.  Whilst clearing out Linden’s things she finds a set of letters from a woman and it is obvious he was having an affair but who with?  Verity sets off to find out who it is but then is attacked herself.  Will she be the next victim?

There is a very good twist at the end of this book which you do not see coming!  

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This is my second Five star audiobook. 

One in three marriages end in divorce but this one ends in murder!  Andrew Page was married to Louise but left her, and their two children, for Caroline just one month after his son was born.  He marries Caroline and they go on to have their own son but the past five years have been difficult co-parenting Louise’s children.  The more contact the two women have, the more they begin to fight and then they begin to run each other down to Andrew.  As each wife comes up with a ploy to make the other one seem useless Andrew is firmly in the middle of all the fighting.  Then to add fuel to the fire Louise’s parents invite Andrew to their 50th Wedding Anniversary party along with Caroline and their son.  Louise is mad, Caroline does not want to go but Andrew is loving every minute of it.  In the weeks before the party lies are told and found out and the arguments increase.  It all comes to a head when Andrew is murdered on the evening before the party but who did it?

The narration was very good and there was a twist right at the end that you will not see coming!  A very good book.

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Hopefully you will find something you like in these books.  I will be doing a new page of Jayne’s and my Book Club Books so that you will be able to see what we have been reading.  They have been very varied.

Have a wonderful weekend and I hope that whatever you are up to you find time to read. 

Hugs & Love, Susie & Book Fiend Coco 🙂 xx