The Midwest Blonde

What Comes After  By: JoAnne Tompkins  Released: April 13th, 2021 Pages: 432 My Rating: 3/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of the same boys' families -- a moving and hopeful novel about forgiveness and human connection.   In misty coastal Washin…

The Kiss Quotient   By: Helen Hoang  Released: June 5th, 2018  Pages: 323 My Rating: 4/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases - a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty year old.  It doesn't…

Rich People Problems By: Kevin Kwan  Released: May 23rd, 2017  Pages: 398 My Rating: 5/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel featuring a family driven by fortune, an ex-wife given psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture-gown sabotage, and the heir to now of Asia's greatest fo…

Crazy Stupid Bromance   By: Lyssa Kay Adams   Released: October 27th, 2020 Pages: 342 My Rating: 4/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Alexis Carlisle and her cat cafe, ToeBeans, have shot to fame after she came forward as a victim of a celebrity chef's sexual harassment. When a new customer approaches to confide in her the last thing Alexis expects is for the women to claim they're sisters. Unsure what to…

The Push  By: Ashley Audrain  Released: January 5th, 2021 Pages: 307 My Rating: 4/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.  But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter - she doesn't behave like most children do.  …

Undercover Bromance   By: Lyssa Kay Adams  Released: March 10th, 2020 Pages: 348 My Rating: 4/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a pastry chef at Nashville's hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors. After she catches him harassing a young hostess, she confronts him and gets fired. Liv vows revenge, but she'll need as…

The Windsor Knot  By: S. J. Bennett  Released: March 9th, 2021 Pages: 288 My Rating: 1/5  Goodreads Synopsis:  It is the early spring of 2016 and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted when a guest is found dead in one of the castle bedrooms. The scene suggests the young Russian pianist strangled himself, but a badly tied …

China Rich Girlfriend  By: Kevin Kwan  Released: June 16th, 2015 Pages: 479  My Rating: /5 Goodreads Synopsis: On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamonds from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a finance willing to sacrifice his entire …

Crazy Rich Asians  By: Kevin Kwan  Released: June 11th, 2013 Pages: 527  My Rating: 5/5 Goodreads Synopsis: Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the se…

The Lost Apothecary  By: Sarah Penner  Released: March 2nd, 2021 Pages: 320  My Rating: 4/5 Goodreads Synopsis: A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them - setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course. Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another women. Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be r…