Dumplin' - Movie Review

Dumplin'

Netflix Movie Review

☆☆☆☆☆

This isn't a romance movie. But it surely

is all about love.

Mom is not the horror show you are

expecting. But she has her problems.

Dumplin' also has her lessons to learn.

 

Oh what a fun sweet emotional movie.

I loved it. Highly recommended.

Its probably not just what you are expecting.

But you will be glad you invested the

hours in it. On Netflix.

It also reminded me that Dolly Parton

might be the best person on the planet.  

 

Review by Lisa Hutson



The Claiming of the Shrew by Shana Galen

The Claiming of the Shrew

by Shana Galen

☆☆☆☆☆

 

This is book 5 of the wonderful Shana Galen

series called The Survivors.

The Survivors are a group of military men. In various

chapters of their lives. Married. Not married. Struggling 

with their pasts in different ways. But one thing that is 

the same for all of them, they count on each other. 

For situation back up. They depend on advice. 

Some time ago, Benedict Draven married a young woman.

Catarina Neves. It was a marriage of convenience.

It provided escape for her, from a terrible home with her father.

This marriage saved her. It gave her a chance to become

a successful business woman using her lacemaking skills.

While she was making her life, Draven was off living his own life.

 

Five years later, Catarina appears in his life. She is requesting

an annulment. Claiming she wants to marry someone else.

But something about the request doesn't feel right to Benedict.

He asks questions but Catarina is not giving him clear answers.

He can feel there is something wrong.

 

Draven cannot just sign the papers and walk away. He is

married to Catarina after all. Even though they don't know

each other well, he feels a connection. She is in trouble.

But what can he do? Can she take care of this by herself?

Catarina has managed her life for all this time. She keeps

telling him it is all right. But is it?

The Claiming of the Shrew is a wonderful

marriage-of-convenience story. People that are capable and

strong, but deep inside, very insecure. Can the two of them

meet in the middle somewhere? You have to read it

to find out. And I recommend that you do!

 

Review by Lisa Hutson



Nobody But You by Jill Shalvis - Audible Version

Nobody But You

by Jill Shalvis

☆☆☆☆☆

Audible Version

 

Jacob Kincaid has found his way back home. It has taken a long

 time. But sometimes, these things do. He did the right thing with

his mom. Keeping up with her. But he did not with the rest of

his family. And they are not one bit happy about that.

 

Sophie is free. And boy did her freedom have a high cost.

But of course, stubbornness added to that cost. Sophie has

decided to stick with it anyway. No matter what the cost.

Both Sophie and Jacob are in highly stressful times.

Their lives are in need of some direction.

There is a saying....

Every person comes into your life for a reason.

Either for you to learn something from them.

Or for them to learn something from you.

That is ever so true for both Jacob and Sophie.

They both manage to help the other to figure it all out.

So in the end, Sophie is happier. So is Jacob.

Now what? Do they go on their separate ways now?

After all, Jacob has to finish his time with the military.

Sophie is just beginning to find some peace.

Would it be possible for them to make a life together?

Jill Shalvis is one of the queens of fun romantic writing.
It is a true love story. I saw a review in which someone

recommended speeding up the listening time to 1.25.

That might have been just what was needed to make

the listening just right. But all in all, it was a good listen.

 

I got this copy from my library.

Review by Lisa Hutson