I know it has been a long time since I’ve posted much on anything to do with crocheting or craft-related stuff. I know I’ve been only posting book reviews, but I miss sharing with you guys what I’m working on and some more tips I’ve picked up along the way!
Of course, my life has been crazy this year! With both good and bad things happening, it’s been hard to find a moment to focus on crochet, and honestly, I’ve also been in a funk. What I mean by that is my mojo to crochet has been put on the back burner.
With a full-time job, raising my 2 daughters, and preparing for another little one due in October, it’s been a very busy year for me! Not to mention, with the rising cost of everything lately, it’s been rough, but I am glad I don’t have to buy yarn anymore; I do need to use what I was given since it’s hogging up extra storage that I need.
Anyway, if you have started to notice, I’ve been starting to post on Pinterest more! I will be working on doing that more in my spare time. Which brings me to the exciting news that I will be announcing!
I’ve noticed a LOT more traffic with some of my pattern posts, and I think it’s time I created PDF patterns for you guys!
Now, don’t worry! My free patterns aren’t going anywhere, but they will be updated if needed, and I will be including the PDF for purchase if you would rather have a copy free from ads. I’m debating whether to have them available on both my website and Etsy, but I think having them available on Etsy is the way I’m leaning towards.
My goal for the next few weeks is to focus on reviewing my current patterns, making edits where needed, and having a link or the option on my site/Etsy for you to purchase the pattern, if you wish to have it in a PDF version to make your lives easier!
I know what you are thinking; it’s about time you did it!
I also know that a lot of people have been asking where my Instagram/Facebook page has been, and honestly, I did get rid of them years ago. Why, you may ask? Well, I just forgot all about the Facebook page, and the Instagram was my personal Instagram. I also didn’t want to manage a lot of social media pages, since it is just me handling it all.
I really want my blog to grow beyond what it was doing before. I created this blog to express my creativity, my likes, my hobbies, etc. My blog isn’t like normal blogs because it’s got a little bit of everything that makes me, well, me!
Which is why I wanted to give back to my followers and thank them for supporting me throughout this journey! So, thank you! I couldn’t have done it without you all!
With that being said, just keep an eye out for the new changes going on my blog, and I’m really hoping to get those PDFs available before my due date! I will keep you all posted!
This is the last book of the thriller series that has caught me on the edge of my seat. The way the last one ended, I had to know if Luna is actually getting away with all this. I will be recapping the second book.
If you haven’t read that one, a spoiler alert is needed!
So, the second book starts off with Sadie trying to figure out who had done all this, and the only reason she could think of was Reid. He was the closest to her who would make the most sense to cause all of this.
She meets Gemma in prison, and they decide that they both agree that Reid had to be the one to falsely put her in prison and cause Sadie to get a DUI. They start working together to see if Reid will slip up and reveal he did this it all.
However, they are looking at the wrong person.
Luna is living her best life as she got what she wanted, but the man who saw her start the fire, she’s still sleeping with him, and comes up with the idea to murder him. In her first attempt, she tries to give him sleeping pills so that once he is out, she can pour alcohol down his throat to make it seem like he has drunk himself to death.
When that fails, she tries again by giving him these sex pills that will supposedly help with making sex more “pleasurable”, but she makes him take 4 dosages in one pill that she crushes up. He gets a heart attack while in the middle of having sex, and he dies right there.
Luna then finds his phone and erases all his contacts with her so it won’t be traced back to her when they find him dead. She thought all was well, but someone saw her leave his apartment. Reid’s son, Arthur, did, and he ended up telling his mom.
Sadie found it strange that she was leaving a man’s apartment and thought that Luna might be cheating on Reid, but she started to think something else had happened when it came out in the news that he was found dead in his apartment. She ends up telling the same detective who helped with the fire at her parents’ house.
Luna was able to talk out of it by saying she was a friend of his and that they used to go to AA meetings, and before he died, he checked in on him, saying he was heavily drinking again. Of course, she walks away from that scot-free, but she was pissed when she realized that Sadie was the one who told the detective to check her out.
What do you think this crazy woman ends up thinking she needs to do next? If you guessed murdering her, you are right on the money.
While Luna is planning on coming up with a way to get rid of Sadie, Reid caves and visits Gemma in prison. Gemma also tells Reid that she and Sadie are onto him about everything he’s done lately. Of course, Reid is too stupid to believe Gemma since he still thinks she is the one who started the fire.
Then he tells her she needs to leave him alone for the sake of his family and new girlfriend. Gemma is shocked by this information and tries to question if Luna had anything to do with this all, but he leaves before she can get any more information.
Meanwhile, Luna tries to lure Sadie into the forest in the middle of the night, claiming Reid and the kids wanted to go looking for foxes. Sadie doesn’t come alone and ends up leaving because of the bad feeling she has about this whole situation, but she wants to make sure Reid is telling the truth, so she decides to stop by and see the kids.
However, Luna gets there as soon as she pulls up and asks her how the trip with the kids and Reid was in the forest, before Sadie can knock on the door, since Reid and the kids are all inside and it would’ve blown up in her face if Sadie saw them all inside.
That’s not even the craziest part! Reid finds a positive pregnancy test in the bathroom trash. You read that right, Luna is pregnant! Reid gets all excited to have another baby, which shocks me because little did he know that the mother of his new unborn son is a complete and crazy monster!
That same night, Sadie gets a message from Gemma saying why didn’t she tell her about Reid dating someone new so quicky and then everything starts to make sense to Sadie that Reid wasn’t the one to do this, but Luna.
Sadie goes to confront Luna and get both her kids and her ex-husband out of the house. Little did she know that Luna was up, and they got into this fight, which ended with Luna being stabbed in the arm and Sadie falling down the stairs and hitting her head.
The way the second book ends, Luna gets stitched up at the hospital, and Sadie had a bad head trauma, so she ended up in a coma so her brain could heal.
So, the third book starts out after Luna has had the baby, a son. Sadie is still in a coma, and Ruby, Reid, and Sadie’s daughter, isn’t handling it well. I felt so heartbroken for those kids because they have been through so much stuff in the past 2 years.
Anyway, Luna thinks she is in the clear until a month after she had her baby, the doctors let Reid and Sadie’s parents know that she has started to show brain activity and might wake up any day now. This puts Luna in a panic because she’s afraid Sadie will tell everyone about what she has done.
Gemma finds out that Sadie’s been in a coma and knows that Luna did it. She gets help from one of the prison guards to try and tell Reid that this was all Luna’s doing, but of course, Reid doesn’t believe them because Luna has him wrapped around her finger.
Not only does Luna have to worry about Sadie, but she also finds out Gemma is onto her. Luna is willing to do anything and everything to protect what she’s gotten so far. I mean, anything, she’s already gotten away with killing one person, so fair.
She tries to kill Sadie when she gets admitted to the hospital, but when she unplugs everything that is attached to Sadie, Sadie wakes up. Of course, the nurses rush in; they question why Luna is in there, but they are attending to Sadie. So far, Sadie doesn’t remember anything that happened before she went into the coma.
Of course, Reid, the kids, and Sadie’s parents come to the hospital when they find she’s awake. Luna also sees that her luck hasn’t quite run out yet, as she sees Gemma visiting one of the patients with a guard. Turns out Gemma’s mother is dying from cancer and was released so she could say her goodbyes.
The amount of luck Luna gets at that happens is ridiculous. Nurses don’t really question her about Sadie or the fact that she had a pillow in her hand that she was going to smother Sadie with. Then, to be in the same place as the other person who suspects you, it was like she was handed this golden opportunity.
I won’t say anything else because I really don’t want to ruin it, but the way the story ends, it’s just shocking how dumb Reid is about all this. It’s like he doesn’t believe that Luna would do what she did just to get him and his kids. Karma is a bitch, and boy, she delivers at the end of it.
Overall, this series kept me on my toes, waiting to see what the next crazy thing she is going to do next. It just blows my mind how unhinged she gets, even towards the end. This series was also a quick read for me; I pretty much read the last two books in less than a day.
I also honestly didn’t think I would be able to get into a thriller, but it was more enjoyable than I thought! Plus, with books like these being page-turners, I will no doubt be on my way to completing my reading goal for the year!
What did you think of this unhinged character? Were you just as shocked as I was with some of the stuff she did? Let me know in the comments down below!
I know you all have been waiting for an update on the “Not So Berry” Sims Challenge I started working on, but I had to start all over. I’m really hoping I can get back up to speed and post an update soon!
Before my game crashed, I did some research to try to figure out what skills I could get started on sooner, before my Sims became adults. I was able to start the second generation, and I wanted to get a head start on getting the Sims’ skills started as soon as I could.
Since the “Not So Berry” Challenge, once your original Sim has aged to become an elder, you can mainly focus on the next generation. Of course, you can jump from each of the Sims at any point, but I always want to get a head start.
So, I’m going to break it down for each age gap and let you know when you can start to build skills:
Baby/Toddlers
For babies, there really isn’t much you can do, other than build their relationship with the parents or teenagers in the household and take care of them until they become old enough to be a toddler.
For toddlers, there are a few things that you have to do to pick their next trait before they age up. Which is teaching them to walk & talk, as well as potty training them. As long as those 3 are done before the toddler ages up, it will allow you to pick the best traits needed to level up your skills faster!
There are only 2 skills that toddlers can work on while they are toddlers, which are logic and guitar skills. The peg box will help with the logic skill, and the xylophone will help with the guitar skill.
Of course, you can reach 3 levels for each of those, but you won’t see any progress show up under their skill bar; however, it can help with lifetime wishes, which you can use in most challenges to speed up their skill level.
Children
For children, this is where you can start developing their skills. Usually, I wait until they are teenagers to start, but there are a few skills you can actually start now for them! However, some of the skills they can gain might be capped at level 3. Here are a few ways to get their skills started:
Cooking: The best way to start this skill is to get the toy oven. They won’t be able to use an actual oven until they become teenagers. However, this will still be invisible until they become a teenager.
Fishing: They can fish at any body of water to gain this skill! Trying out different ponds or lakes will get them to catch different fish, and you can sell their catch at the grocery store or have it saved in the fridge for someone in the household to cook!
Logic: This will be the only skill book that will appear for children to be able to read. Of course, they can also gain this skill by playing chess on a chess table or on the computer as well. As well as the building blocks, but I usually have them either read or play chess on the computer, as those are the faster ones.
Athletic: This is also another skill that is “hidden” until they become a teenager. However, you can start working on this skill by having them work out on the TV/stereo or the playground equipment, as well as build that skill.
Guitar/Bass/Drums/Piano: I actually didn’t know they could start any of these until they were a teen; however, they can. However, they have to get to level 3 on the xylophone first in order to unlock this. I’m not sure if they can learn songs, but it might have to wait until they are a teen to do so. Also, I don’t think the skills will show until they are older.
Painting/Writing: These are my favorite skills to have my Sims work on! They are always my go-to, no matter what Sims game I’m playing! You can get them started on these; however, they won’t show the skill level until they have aged into a teenager. Especially if I get them into the writing skill, I make them focus on just refining their skill and then start having them write books once they are a teenager; usually I get lucky that the book will become a best seller that way.
Gardening: I didn’t know that children could start gardening; however, they can start doing basic gardening. Again, this skill may not show up; however, if there is an older Sim that has mastered gardening, they can tutor the child on it.
Teenagers
For teenagers, there are more ways to start gaining skills. Not only through some of the items, but also by reading skill books at the library. They can start gaining all adult skills at this point, and depending on whether you have the Generations Pack instead, some other ways will gain skills as well!
Generations Pack: So, with this expansion pack, you unlock more features for the children/teenagers. Both can pick up after-school activities to do; however, the children are only limited to 2, while teenagers have a few to pick from:
Children: Scouts and Ballet are the only two choices available to them. They don’t gain any skills with them, but they do get awards after completing them.
Teenagers: Now, they have more options for after-school activities, up to 2, but it does depend on which ones they select. If you do sign your teenager up for after-school activities, make sure they don’t have a part-time job, as this can be tricky and can possibly stress them out. Here are the options and what skills they can gain from them:
Art Club – Increases Painting and Sculpting skills (Ambitions Expansion)
Debate Club – Increases logic skills
Drama Club – Increases Charisma skills
Band Club – Increases guitar skills and/or other instruments, depending on which expansion pack is installed. (Late Night Expansion)
Athletics – Increases Athletic skill
Scouts – Increases Gardening and Fishing skills
The Generations Pack also has a feature where you can send your child/teenager to boarding school. However, there are a lot of bugs and problems doing so.
An example that I actually had happen to me is that I attempted to do this and ended up having a lot of issues with getting my Sim back. I had to reset the game a few times and the Sim itself, but nothing really worked, so I avoided sending my Sims to boarding school.
I also only messed around with it once, so I didn’t want to attempt to do it again, especially if I was working on a challenge. I believe there is a way to fix it; I just haven’t looked into it because I like having them go to a normal school.
I did want to include it, just in case others have no problems with the boarding school feature. Here is a list of which boarding schools and what skills they can gain from attending:
School of Peace and Love: Cooking, Fishing, Gardening, and Nectar Making (This one is for World Adventures Expansion Pack)
Dribbledine Sports Academy: Athletic, Handiness, and Martial Arts (This one is for World Adventures Expansion Pack)
LeFromage Art School: Charisma, Guitar, Painting, Sculpting (Ambitions Expansion), Photography, Bass, Piano, and Drums
Smuggsworth Prep School: Charisma, Logic, and Writing
One of my biggest tips is that whenever you have a challenge, which is focusing on reaching level 10 in skills, write a checklist of what needs to be completed. Like the “Not So Berry” Challenge, I’m working on a checklist that I want to share, so that if you want to give it a go, you can and have a guide to help you through it!
Even if you aren’t doing a challenge, this is good information to know, especially if you want to get your Sim started on gaining skills right away! Especially if you want them to go to college, this will make it easier for you to pass those classes so you can get away with trying out other features that you weren’t able to before.
Normally, I won’t have my teenager get a job if I want them to get their skills up, if I plan on sending them to university, so by the time they graduate, I can send them to college and get the degree faster.
Anyway, I hope this information helps; it helped me out a lot! I’m really hoping I have an update on the challenge I’m working on. Life has been very busy for me lately, so I only have a few windows when I can.
Fun Question! What skills do you always start having your Sims gain first? For me, it’s Cooking, Logic, and Handiness, but depending on their traits, I’ll do others like Writing and Painting.
After finishing the first book, I Want Your Family, I just had to know how much more this crazy chick would get away with. If you haven’t read the first one, I would highly recommend doing so since I will be spoiling some of the parts of the last book to catch up with what the second book is about.
So, a spoiler alert, for those who haven’t read the first one.
In the first book, Luna is a delivery driver who delivers packages and has been stalking a family. She wants to take over Sadie’s role as the mother/husband and become her. Well, if you were just as shocked as I was, you’ll find that she did get away with doing so at the end of the first book.
Which is crazy, I honestly thought she’d be caught by now, but nope, not yet! Anyway, how did she manage to do so?
First, Reid, the husband, and Sadie were already having problems in their relationship, with Reid sexting one of his co-workers, Gemma. They decided to take a weekend to go off and try to see if there was a relationship left to save. However, little did they know that there was a third party listening in on this conversation they were having. Luna.
Luna ends up using this to her advantage and decides to ruin their little mini vacation to make sure they will get divorced. Well, she did just that. When they were at the spa retreat, Luna paid off one of the bartenders to say he recognized Reid and asked if he was with the infamous “Gemma” to his wife, Sadie.
Sadie didn’t end up taking that well and told him she wanted a divorce because, as far as she was told by Reid, he never slept with Gemma. So, she cuts the trip early and takes a taxi to her parents’ house to get their kids. Little did she know, Luna had SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE.
I’m not kidding, she set the house on fire with both the kids and Sadie’s parents inside. Luna thought they weren’t home, and once she realized they were, she banged on the glass window to get them to get out of the house. Thankfully, all of them were able to get out.
Of course, Sadie is pulling up to watch her parents’ house on fire and is freaking out, which I don’t blame her for; I would be too. That’s a sight you would never want to see as a parent. Coming back from a trip away with the kids and coming home to find that, I couldn’t imagine how I would feel other than I was going in there to get my family out.
Now, do you think Luna got away with this? The answer is YES, but someone caught her leaving the scene of the crime, holding all the evidence of her starting the fire in her hands. She ends up SLEEPING with this man to keep him quiet. You heard that right. Then she pins the entire fire on Gemma, Reid’s mistress.
Not only does she have to deal with this man, but she ends up getting Reid to sleep with her while he is undergoing his divorce from Sadie. Since she wants both the kids and the house they grew up in, she comes up with a plan to make sure custody is taken from Sadie.
She switches Sadie’s multivitamins for alcohol powder. Then, after making sure Sadie has already taken them, she calls the cops on Sadie, saying she’s drunk-driving with kids in the back, when Sadie is trying to take the kids to school. Of course, the cops pull her over, and because she ends up failing the breathalyzer test, she ultimately ends up losing full custody of her kids.
At the end of the book, you find out that she and Reid have a full-blown relationship now, and she is currently living in the house, raising Sadie’s kids. You’d never think she would actually get away with all this, right?
Sadie is the only one who starts to realize that she had to be targeted by someone to not only lose her husband, but her kids, too. The one thing she knows isn’t true is how she managed to get a DUI when she was completely sober.
So, the start of the book happens about a year after they had been officially divorced. Luna and Reid are living together. Sadie is shocked that Reid moved on as fast as he did and that she is being replaced by the same person who delivered packages to her.
If you think the first book she was crazy, just wait to find out what she does in this second book.
She is living her dream; however, there is one thing that is in the way of her happiness. The man who saw her leaving Sadie’s parents’ the night she started the fire. She is still sleeping with him WHILE dating Reid. Of course, she has to get rid of him, and the first thing that comes to her mind is murder.
So, while she is trying to come up with a plan to end him, Sadie thinks that the only person who could’ve made her lose everything was Reid, so she visits Gemma in prison, and they start to try to figure out why this was all happening to both of them.
Meanwhile, the kids are not taking a liking to Luna, and she is pissed because of this and is trying so hard to get them on her side. They are also 5 and 9, just watched their parents go through not only a divorce, but finding out their father’s mistress tried to kill them, and their mother only gets to see them once or twice a week.
Plus, their father already has a new girlfriend living with them all at the same time. That’s a huge adjustment for the kids to have to go through in a short amount of time. Of course, they start acting out because of it. The oldest, Arthur, is causing more of the issues, but he also catches Luna leaving another man’s house when he skipped school.
The same man who caught her starting the fire.
Of course, he tells Sadie, and she starts questioning if Luna is cheating on Reid. However, she starts to suspect Luna when the news comes out that this man had “suddenly” passed away. While that is happening, Gemma finally gets Reid to visit her in prison, and she tells him that she and Sadie suspect him of everything that has happened.
Reid, this idiot, refuses to believe her and thinks that she has lost it, but he lets it slip out that he has a girlfriend. Which Gemma had no idea of, and immediately emailed Sadie asking why she didn’t tell her that Reid was seeing someone right around the same time as all the bad luck started happening to them.
Wait til you find out what happens in the end, it’s just so crazy what Luna does to keep this fantasy of hers a reality. After I finished the second book, I had to know what happened in the last one. It leaves you on a cliffhanger for sure!
Overall, it keeps you on your toes and wanting to find out what happens next. I really didn’t believe I could get into a thriller series like this, but I had to know if this crazy Luna really gets what she wants.
What do you think of this mini-series? Are you just as shocked as I am that she is getting away with this all? Let me know down in the comments!
Have you ever read a book and asked the question, “What the actual fuck am I reading?” I definitely asked this question after finishing this book. I had no idea what I would be reading until I actually read the book.
One of my friends recommended this one as well; she talked a little bit about it, and since it was on Kindle Unlimited, I figured, why not try something different? Especially since I was pretty bummed with the last romance novel I read, I figured taking a break from the romance novels to something different might help me.
Oh, but little did I know what I was reading until I actually read this. Let me get one thing straight: this chick is CRAZY. Not to mention, this is the first book; two others come right after. I also finished the first book so quickly and started right away on the other ones in just this week.
Anyway, let’s talk about what this story is really about. The POV is in Luna’s and Sadie’s. So, Luna is the crazy one who wants what Sadie has: her husband, her kids, and her life. She delivers packages to her daily and fantasizes about removing Sadie from her home and pretty much becoming her.
The thing that really shocked me is how she plans on doing it. I thought for sure she would get away with it, but I swear, she had all this planned out. Which when reading this, it makes me question where the author actually came up with this because this type of thinking is NUTS.
Usually, this isn’t the type of book that I would just randomly pick up and give it a go, but once you start reading, you just want to know how far she is willing to go to get this family. I wanted to know how she planned on doing it and if she’d get away with it all.
One of the key things that happened that makes this all go down is that Sadie and Reid, her husband, are having problems in their marriage. Sadie catches Reid sexting his co-worker, Gemma, which is causing tension between them.
Of course, once that trust is broken, it’s hard to get it back, and in this case, they decided to try and work on their marriage to see if there was anything left to save. Which is when the whole shit-show starts, when they leave to go to a spa retreat.
Luna overhears the conversation and uses it to her advantage. It also didn’t help that they decided to have this conversation when she was delivering a package to them the same day. I think this is when she started her plan.
I really don’t want to spoil it for you all because it’s just crazy what she does to not only get Sadie and Reid to divorce, but also to have Sadie lose custody of the two kids. Plus, she manages to get Reid wrapped around her finger once the divorce is all official.
I have to give her credit, she’s motivated to get what she wants, but why you would want to steal another person’s family is beyond me. She could’ve had one herself, you would’ve thought, but she mentions that she had tried, but nothing had worked out. Not to mention, she tried to do it with another family BEFORE!
I was shocked she was trying to do it with this family, but she did it to another family and got caught? Well, she had to get a whole new ID and life, which is why you find out that her real name is Sarah, not Luna.
Overall, this book keeps you on your toes for sure, and this was my first, I guess you can call it a thriller. Normally, I like cheesy romance or fantasy stuff, but I couldn’t put this book down. Especially when you find out what happens in the end, you want to read the second book just to find out what she does next.
Have you read this series, or is this something that has piqued your interest? Let me know if your curious to know how crazy Luna gets and I mean she gets even more unhindged than you think!
I have started to finally work on my saved book list on Amazon. This was one that I was really excited to see on Kindle Unlimited. I had really high hopes since it was a small-town romance, and after the Story Lake series, I really had some high hopes that this would be a good one.
So, this is a series, and I’m debating if I want to test out the second one, but you’ll see why when I talk more about the first one. The story is based on Audery moving back home after getting laid off from her job and struggling to find another one, until she was hired at a small town newspaper.
She ends up living with her mother, but realizes that her dog, Max, and her mother’s cat don’t get along well, and ends up quickly moving out into her own place. That is also when she meets Josiah Haven. The way they end up meeting each other is hilarious, to say the least.
Josiah was working on the place next to where Audery moved to and thought she was a squatter, since his little sister didn’t tell him she already signed a lease with them. He pretty much walks in on her naked in the bathtub. Which I found hilarious!
Reading his POV, he was completely embarrassed and was upset that his sister didn’t tell him someone had already moved into the place. Anyway, as you can tell, the POV is not just in Josiah’s, but Audrey’s as well.
Once she starts living there, that’s when she starts getting random calls from restricted numbers, dead squirrels appear on her front porch, and she has the feeling that someone is stalking her. She has Josiah help her when she finds the dead squirrel on her front porch and tells her that squirrels don’t just up and die randomly while being drained of all their blood.
Audrey and Josiah make a police report, but since there wasn’t enough evidence, she has to keep her guard up. She has no idea who could be doing this since she never had any enemies, to her knowledge, although Josiah thinks it might be her ex-boyfriend.
I honestly thought it was the ex-boyfriend was the stalker, just from the two interactions that she had with him. He drove from the town over, just to go to a bar to see her and supposedly “catch up”? It just seemed suspicious to me, plus he was getting kind of handsy with her, that’s when Josiah actually stepped in and became her “knight in shining armor”.
That’s when he starts to have feelings towards her, but is hesitant to act on them since at the beginning of the book, it starts with him about to propose to his girlfriend of 3 years, but she ends up dumping him because she got a promotion to another state and knows he would never leave the small town he grew up in, so instead of proposing, he just lets her dump him.
Which would make sense why he is very cold and closed off to any type of female interaction. Even the blind dates his aunt tries to set him up with, he wants nothing to do with them. He actually starts to realize that he can’t stop thinking about Audrey, and when she sees him with another woman, she thinks that it’s his girlfriend, but he drives back to her house and kisses her.
I love it when the author builds the tension between two love interests, and they finally kiss after reading several chapters, waiting for the “will they or won’t they” moment. It got me excited to see how she would write their first intimate moment, especially how she built up their attraction to each other. I was hoping for fireworks!
Well, to say I was disappointed was an understatement. It was like reading about a one-night stand with little to no detail. I was hoping for something more exciting, but it was very lackluster. Maybe it’s because the last small town novels really went over the top with what I was expecting, who knows?
I figured maybe the author was waiting for a better moment to go into detail with their next intimate moment, and unfortunately, I was still disappointed. Granted, that wasn’t the reason that kept me reading, I really wanted to know who this stalker was, but why build up the tension with two characters and give them a subpar sex scene?
Overall, I think what really drew me in was not just the small-town romance, but the side of mystery with who this stalker was and why they were targeting Audrey. I won’t spoil it, but it threw me off the path to who it was, but I will let you all read on to find out who it actually was.
This book wasn’t too bad. It’s not something I’ll be buying for my shelf anytime soon, it was an interesting read overall. Would I read it again? Possibly. Will I read the second one? I’m still unsure, but I might give it a try to see if the next book, which is about Josiah’s brother, Zachary.
Oh, I forgot to mention, Josiah has 5 other brothers. Which is why there are other books based on each of the Haven brothers. I’m getting the sense that most of these small-town book series I’ve been reading have been about each brother finding love. Nothing wrong with that, as long as they have some kind of drama or mystery going on that keeps your interest going.
Have any of you read this book or this series? What did you think? Or is the small-town romance not your cup of tea? Let me know down below!
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