Book 40/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsI started the year saying “I Do” on January 4th and so it felt right to end my 2024 reading challenge with this early Taylor Jenkins Reid read about what happens After I Do.After I Do is the story of a couple caught up in an old game—and … Continue reading After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Book 39/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsIt’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in … Continue reading In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

Book 38/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsHarriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college, except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage … Continue reading Happy Place by Emily Henry

Book 37/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsDaughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive.Twelve years later, the woman now … Continue reading The Witness by Nora Roberts

Book 36/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsWhen Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it … Continue reading Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Book 35/30. My rating: 2 of 5 stars I started this on November 5th as I wanted to read something with vibes of the US election, so this one was for Donald Trump because not only is he orange when he goes heavy on the spray tan, he is also the first former US president … Continue reading Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman

Book 34/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsLexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's a twenty-five-year-old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually 2007 - she's twenty-eight, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department … Continue reading Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

Book 33/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsIn a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, The Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might … Continue reading The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Book 32/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsI was in Diani for 5 nights in October so of course I had to read a quintessential beach read at the beach 🤩🤓More than that, I was curious to know what it is about The Summer I Turned Pretty that features so many Taylor Swift songs, including … Continue reading The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Book 31/30.My rating: 3 of 5 starsNora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have … Continue reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig