Kate is an actress, hired to play the role of romance author for a newly published book. Charlie is the talent agent managing Kate, as she steps into her new role. The actual author doesn’t want to be known, so she needs to dupe the world to protect his identity. I like how she immediately asked Charlie if he wrote the book, and the mystery of the author helped drive the book forward. The romance between Kate and Charlie was lacking a little - I wanted more interactions between them. I still like Josie Silver’s writing style. (7.75)
This was a quirky read. I liked how unexpected things had a voice, like a baseball hat and especially the cat, Pancake, even if Pancake is a harbinger of death. PJ Halliday is lucky enough to win the lottery, but unlucky enough to suffer the worst kind of loss - the death of his teenage daughter. She drowned in a cranberry bog, and PJ’s family fell apart soon after. He drinks to cope, and relies on his (living) daughter, ex-wife, and her steady boyfriend to keep him from completely crumbling. When his estranged brother’s children need a guardian, it’s like a second chance for PJ. He also learns that his high school sweetheart’s husband just died, so he decides to take the kids on a road trip to the Tender Hearts Retirement Center, where she lives, to try to win her heart. His daughter, Sophie, and Pancake join them too. The two kids, Ollie and Luna, are grieving the loss of their parents and getting used to PJ and Sophie as guardians. Luna has her own motive for the road trip - wa...
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