R. Renee just posted her top three books of 2024 and since she and I have VERY similar tastes in books (we like twists and risks and crazy angst), she has my attention! She’s an avid reader and a long-time fellow reader right here on the blog, so if she loved these books, you KNOW they’re good!
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R. Renee’s Best Books of 2024 List
“I only read 15 books last year and only *really* liked three:”
Mayluna by Kelley McNeil
“…A legendary band, an iconic lead singer, and their mysterious connection to a woman whose love helped create the music of a generation. Timing is everything in a powerful novel about fate, regret, and moving on by the author of A Day Like This…”
Dawn: Just finished Mayluna
It’s a good one
Yafit: Mayluna Loving it
Jo: I’m **% in and I’ve been sobbing on and off and I’m scared for the end.
Yafit: I’ll just wait over here for you
Margaret: You will love MAYLUNA
BARGAIN PRICED!! READER RECOMMENDATION! PAMELA LOVED IT!!!
Mayluna: A Novel
BARGAIN PRICED!! READER RECOMMENDATION! EVERYONE LOVED IT!!! Did you love Daisy Jones and the Six?
Linda: Mayluna guys!!!! No spoilers. Just dive in!!! 5*****
Pamela: Maryse If you liked Daisy Jones and the Six you will love Mayluna. I could not put it down…great book to start the new year! Enjoy! Pam
Summer: Mayluna so good!
Page: Mayluna by Kelley McNeil! it’s perfect for hopeless romantics!! it’s got music, bromance, romance, travel, starry nights, heartbreak, and it results in the best kind of reader heartache 😢
FROM THE SYNOPSIS:
“...Evie Waters’s two grown children discover an iconic photo in an old magazine of a “mystery girl” with Carter: their mother. It all started in a wistful time and place for Evie, her twenty-fifth summer. A young columnist forging her career. Backstage euphoria. A long-shot interview. And an almost cosmic connection with an enigmatic musician on the rise...”
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Falling Like Stars by Emma Scott,
“She kept her heart guarded and locked away…until she gave it to the world’s biggest movie star.
In the dazzling world of Hollywood where fame and glamour reign supreme, award-winning megastar Zachary Butler longs for something more than red carpet events and paparazzi flashes. As he navigates fame and tries to extricate himself from his celebrity ex-fiancée, he discovers an unexpected spark with Rowan Walsh, a production assistant on his latest project…”
EMMA SCOTT’S LATEST!
Falling Like Stars
EMMA SCOTT’S LATEST CELEBRITY ROMANCE!!
“...Rowan, haunted by a devastating moment in her past, shields her heart behind walls of guilt, letting no one in. But Zachary’s genuine affection and desire for a meaningful life begin to chip away at her defenses.
As their connection deepens, Rowan must battle the self-destructive patterns that have held her back from embracing her passions and finding true love, while Zachary must reveal his own hidden scars—wounds he’s borne in silence for years—if he hopes to heal…”
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and
The Good Part by Sophie Cousens.
“...After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life.
When she wakes the next morning to a handsome man, a ring on her finger, a high-powered job, and two storybook-perfect children, Lucy can’t believe this is real—especially when she looks in the mirror, and staring back is her own fortysomething face…”
R. Renee: I finished The Good Part a couple days ago and loved it! It gave me Seven Year Slip feels!
THE WISHING MACHINE WORKED…
The Good Part
THE WISHING MACHINE WORKED…
“…After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life.
When she wakes the next morning to a handsome man, a ring on her finger, a high-powered job, and two storybook-perfect children, Lucy can’t believe this is real—especially when she looks in the mirror, and staring back is her own fortysomething face…”
R. Renee: I finished The Good Part a couple days ago and loved it! It gave me Seven Year Slip feels!
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