What I read in January 2022

January 2022 was the fastest January I can remember! Never before has a month gone so quickly. It was a great reading month - 3 books - all of them fantastic.

OFF LIMITS LOVERS BY REESE RYAN

When Attorney Roarke Perry first meets the beautiful Annabel Currin he knows he is in trouble! His attraction to the just-jilted bride is instantaneously strong and it is clear she feels the same way. However she is the daughter of his father’s nemesis and their families feud goes back many years.

For Annabel who has just been left by her fiance, Roarke arriving is a welcome distraction. She asks to be taken on as a client and soon they start seeing alot of each other. Her feelings for him are strong and she just hopes that while playing with fire neither of them get burned.

Reese is an amazing Author and she is so much fun to follow on Instagram as she engages with her readers. This is a very sexy read with lots of drama and I look forward to reading more of her books.

The point of rescue by Sophie Hannah

Last year Sally Thorning lied to her husband and family and went away for a week claiming it was a business trip. It was there she met a man Mark Bretherick.

Watching the news Sally sees that Mark Bretherick’s wife and daughter have been found dead. Their names are the same, where they live and his job description but the grieving widow being interviewed is a man Sally has never seen before.

This is a thriller which keeps one guessing throughout the book. Told from Sally’s point of view as well as those in charge of the investigation - Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer (who are regulars in Sophie Hannah’s books).

This is one of Sophie’s older books but I preferred it to some of her more recent ones.

The Push by Ashley Audrain

Blythe Connor doesn’t want history to repeat itself. She has given birth to her first child and Violet is not an easy newborn. As she grows Blythe starts feeling she can do no right and that something is wrong. Either with herself. Or her daughter.

Her husband Fox tells her she is imagining things but he doesn’t see what she does in Violet. He doesn’t realise Violet is getting worse as she grows older.

This book was chilling and heartbreaking. Blythe’s childhood is so sad and her mother Cecilia (and what she endured growing up) is awful. The way the complicated mother-daughter relationships are described in this book are extremely raw at times. Not an easy book to read - get the tissues ready - but impossible to put down.

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