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While weight and relationships with food is a constant element, what I took away from this book was more about self-acceptance and self-love than anything else. A lot of people struggle with a healthy relationships with food and body image, I felt that Higgins talked about this in a brutally honest way which will be hard for some people to read. If you’ve struggled with self-acceptance, control, or unhealthy eating habits this book will be difficult to read but not in a bad way per say. But it was also such a good book to read in that I could see how far I’ve come and how much it broke my heart to read about intelligent, kind, strong, and compassionate women hate on themselves so much.

To prep for this new series, JR Ward is writing a free--yes, you heard right FREE--three part novella to help give you some background about this setting and world and characters. Today on this blog tour, the publisher and JR Ward are sharing an exclusive look at the series with a summary, excerpt, AND a video from JR Ward herself! Not about the role of females in bridal parties, but that Anne wasn’t going to be in the “goddamn wedding. Deandra in skinny jeans and that tight cashmere sweater, her dark hair streaked blond, her body cocked forward like she was going to throat-punch the man she was going to marry; Moose in his New Brunswick Fire Department T-shirt, all broad-shouldered and bearded around the face, easing back like someone with the flu was about to sneeze in his face.

What I loved about this book was the discussion of fame and how much celebrity is just a facade of who a person really is and how people think they know somebody when in all actuality they hardly know them at all. A well-known author has gone missing and turns up murdered in the most horrifying way after a first draft of his newest book roasting all the people in his life goes public in the book world circle of the people talked about. There were so many different ways the pieces of the puzzle could have fit together and when it did, it made perfect sense.takes another slight departure from the previous book because it focuses on Cormoran, somebody who is out to get him, and a POV from the person he's trying to catch. My small criticism with this book was that, unlike the previous book, while anybody could have done it, the puzzle pieces felt so interchangeable that there wasn't a hint at all as to who it could have been.

Dual timeline featuring the very real spy network called the Alice Network that operated during WWI and a woman trying to find her lost cousin post-WWII, this novel is everything. This book is historical fiction about a secretary turned housewife turned spy that read like a contemporary women's fiction novel in that there was so much development of the heroine and lead-up to her spy association and that really blew me away. It's not 'just' a novel about a female spy, it's a novel about a women and how her life and decisions brought her to where she is today.3. Emotional and engaging, this book will have you turning the pages as fast as you can to see how it all ends.5.// While Lucy is not the most savvy spy there every was, I couldn't leave out an opportunity to highlight the very real spy network that Elizabeth I operated.