Melody and Duncan have been friends all their lives. They spend every summer vacationing with their parents at their lake houses which are side by side. While they thought this summer was going to be filled with carefree fun before they start their first year of college together, Duncan's father announces that he has been promoted and the whole family will soon be moving to Florida. Melody and Duncan won't be going to college together after all. And on top of all that, they secretly like each other. There's only one week until their lives will change drastically. It's a cute story about lifelong friends who develop feelings for each other and are starting to act on those feelings. It's a quick and easy read. It'll be interesting to read what happens next in the series!

It's 1926 and Canadian-born, American-raised Maisie Musgrave is living in London. She's very excited to land a job as a secretary at the British Broadcasting Corporation. Radio is still new and although some people don't like it, it is captivating the nation. Maisie falls in love with her job - the hectic pace, arranging broadcasts by the most influential people in Britain, working alongside smart minds of the BBC. It's here that she finds her voice and blossoms into a confident and capable young woman. But there is growing conflict between Maisie's two bosses. John Reith has a very different opinion than Hilda Matheson when it comes to what the BBC should be airing. But no matter what happens, Maisie is determined to let her work speak for her. The author makes you feel as though you're in London during the years after WWI when radio was just catching on but had to be censored, when women had just won the right to vote and had jobs other than secretarial ones.

Jeanie and Matthew met, fell in love and got married after six months. They're supposed to have a fairytale marriage. Jeanie's the perfect wife, Matthew is the handsome and wealthy businessman with a big, beautiful home. They both have children from previous relationships. They're supposed to live happily ever after. But contrary to the fairytale, Jeanie is not an evil stepmother. She is caring and kind. While she is trying so hard to create one big happy family, someone else is threatening to destroy her marriage by digging up her old secrets. I found the first half of the book boring. The story was finally picking up and getting good and then there was this weird twist that I found didn't fit in properly with the way the story was going. Towards the end it became too convoluted. I didn't mind Jeanie. I liked reading about her time in the big old house where she could hear the walls whispering and see a ghost referred to as the Grey Lady.

Grace, Grace's boyfriend Dan, and Charlie have been friends since childhood. But one day Charlie leaves without saying goodbye. For years she sends Grace postcards from all over the world. Then one day she reappears in Grace's life, but before they get a chance to talk, Charlie dies. Grace is left with her mysterious last words “I did something terrible, Grace. I hope you can forgive me.” She has no idea what Charlie did, but she's determined to find out and she's also determined to find Charlie's father, something Charlie wanted so desperately to do. Grace and Dan turn to social media to search for him or to find someone who knows him. A girl claiming to be Charlie's half-sister responds and meets up with Grace to talk. That's when things start to fall apart for Grace. This is an excellent debut novel. It's well-crafted. There is the right amount of twists and turns, and they're good. It alternates between then and now and flows well. The characters

Ever since her best friend and next door neighbour, Oliver, was kidnapped ten years ago, Emmy's parents are extremely overprotective of their only child. At seventeen she feels as though she's not allowed to grow up. But now Oliver has returned home. After being picked up by his father from school one day, Oliver spent the last ten years with him, not knowing he was kidnapped and thinking his mother didn't want him anymore. With Oliver back, Emmy hopes to get to know him again and see where their friendship takes them. The whole book came together so well - the pacing, the characters, the writing - everything was so, sooo good. It didn't lack anything. There were no slow parts. I loved Emmy. I loved Oliver. I loved Emmy and Oliver together. I loved her relationship with her best friends Caro and Drew, their bond felt strong and genuine. Caro and Drew themselves were three-dimensional with their own joys and problems. Her relationship with her parents was frustrating but