Pink Chicks Book Corner

A dual timeline story set in 1943 and 1965 and is about Isabel, a codebreaker stationed at Pearl Harbor and a journalist Lu,covering a hotel opening in Hawaii. Isabel works with highly classified intelligence and is brilliant at what she does, but when a friend goes missing, she starts to suspect someone is a traitor. Lu calls Hawaii her home and jumps at the chance to cover a big hotel opening in 1965, but when a high profile guest goes missing, she tries to uncover the mystery. Both stories eventually intertwine and Lu and Isabel’s lives intersect in an interesting way. The story was well done and the plot twist was good. I liked the characters of Lu and Isabel and liked that they were connected through the man Isabel loved. The atmosphere and the way the dual timeline is handled worked very well in this story.  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The third book in the wives of Henry V111 series is about Jane Seymour. Jane is quite different in personality than Anne: more quiet and patient and to Henry more docile, but she is more strong and intelligent than people in her world give her credit for. Jane clings to her Catholic faith and advocates for Henry’s daughter Mary to be accepted by him again. She is the wife who succeeds in finally giving Henry a son and loses her life because of sickness resulting from the birth. This story touches on the highs and lows of her life and makes an enjoyable story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Molly has a great career being a beauty influencer and she has a chance boost her career with a makeover show, but she needs real life experience doing makeovers if she wants to get this hosting job. After hearing about a place that helps older young adults after they leave foster care from her brother, Molly decides to try to volunteer, much to the chagrin of the program’s director, Silas. He understands that the people in the program need specific care and doubts that Molly will be the right fit for a mentor. Both Molly and Silas find they were wrong about the other, and Molly learns lessons about herself and her faith is strengthened by doing this.  Well written story and I liked Silas and Molly as characters. Molly had a good character growth arc, and I liked seeing her relationship grow with Silas.  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cass thought she could run from her painful past and start a new life in Thailand, but her past catches up to her. Brooke is a travel influencer, posting the beautiful places she visits to social media, but she is at the resort in Thailand to find someone. Cass and Brooke become friends and they try to find out what happened to a girl who was murdered at the resort. Eventually a betrayal will rupture their friendship and Cass will question her relationships with all her friends. Mysteries are solved and I did like the twist at the end of the story. The middle of the book did drag a little and it was slightly predictable as to who killed who.  ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

 Isabelle Edgewood has had a couple of bad relationship experiences, but that changes when her cousin signs her up for a dating app. She starts corresponding to a man named Brodie who lives in a small European country. They bond over books and eventually fall for each other, especially after Brodie visits her hometown. Isabelle has to deal with meddling family members and another guy who wants to date her, but her heart is with Brodie.  I loved this story! I did like that it was written in emails and texts for the first half of the book. I thought it gave a view of the characters personalities and set up the story well. I loved all the literature references, especially the Lord Of The Rings references. I can’t wait to see all the characters in the next books. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lauren and her mother moved away from California to start a new life in Pennsylvania, only to find themselves in more danger. Lauren doesn’t care for the man her mother is engaged to, and she likes his daughter even less. At school, Lauren befriends the Crestmont brothers,Robbie and Trevor. The brothers are social pariahs at school because both of their girlfriends died under suspicious circumstances. Lauren is in a relationship with Robbie and soon she starts questioning whether he is innocent, especially after she finds something from the night his ex-girlfriend died. Soon Lauren will look into what happened to the two girls and discover that danger is closer than she thought. This was an entertaining story. The twist was done well and several people who could have been the killer were introduced and it did keep you guessing who was the killer throughout the story. I liked the was Lauren reconciled her past at the end of her story so she could have forgiveness and heal. The audio boo

When Stephen Aston announces her is getting married again, the news doesn’t go over well with his two daughters Tully and Rachel. The sisters are upset that he will divorce their mother who has dementia and Marry a woman about thier age. Heather, the fiancé, wants to be friends with Tully and Rachel, but they are reluctant at first. Both sisters are dealing with difficult things in their lives: Tully with kleptomania and her marriage and Rachel with healing from a sexual assault that happened in her teenage years. Then there are indications that their parents marrige was not perfect like the sisters thought it was. The relationship between Heather, Rachel and Tully does thaw and ultimately they support each other when a incident happens at the  wedding. The story was told through Rachel, Tully, and Heathers perspective. It is more family drama than full mystery or suspense, but the story is written well and is interesting. Content: mentions of domestic abuse and sexual assault. Some st

Hazel and Flora are sisters who like many children in London in 1939 are sent to the countryside for their safety. They miss their mother, and yearn to be back in the home they left, but the lady and her son who take them in treat the girls well and Hazel and Flora like them as well. Hazel tells Flora stories about a fictional place called Whisperwood, a place of refuge for them. One day in 1940 Flora disappears and is not seen again. Hazel blames herself for not looking after her sister, and she moves back with her mother. Years later in 1960, Hazel works at a rare book bookshop when she finds a book with illustrations that is about the fictional place that she told her sister about. Stunned, Hazel sets out to find who the author is and why she is writing her stories. This leads to happy discoveries and a mystery is solved that spanned twenty years. This was a engaging story. The narrative ent between 1940 and 1960 and I thought that worked. The characters were written well and that a