Book Review: The Last Carolina Summer by Karen White

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The Last Carolina Summer by Karen White is the story about Phoebe Manigault returning home to Mt. Pleasant, a suburb of Charleston, South Carolina, to help her sister with their ailing mother. When past memories resurface, Phoebe is thrown back into some childhood turmoil. I requested an Advanced Readers Copy ARC of The Last Carolina Summer from NetGalley, and I was ecstatic when the provided me with a copy for free in exchange for my honest review. So, a big thank you goes out to them! When I began reading this story, I just happened to be vacationing in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. I loved hearing about the different places, including streets and a bridge called the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, which I had to cross to get into Mt. Pleasant as well as Isle of Palms. It's always nice to be able to visualize the places and author writes about. With that being said, I'm not a fan of traveling over bridges, and one of the scenes of The Last Carolina Summer mentions a car going off ...
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Book Review: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

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Book Club Book Review of It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
I belong to a couple of book clubs, and one of them reads a bit of everything. It's this book club that chose It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover as one of three book selections for the December Book Club Meeting. Normally, we only have two selections, and we can choose to read one of them or both of them. I decided to go with the aforementioned book because it takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, and Boston is one of my favorite cities to visit.

With that being said, I wasn't too sure I'd like this book because we had read another one of Colleen Hoover's books, and it was just okay. Anyways, despite the heavy topics in It Ends With Us, I ended up loving the book. Topics included spousal abuse, accidental death by gun, and homelessness. It does include some graphic scenes, so it may be too upsetting for people to read if they've gone through any of this in their life. At the very end of the novel, the Collen Hoover explains that the book is semi-autobiographical, which I was wondering about as I read the novel. I am lucky that I haven't experienced any of this in my life, but it did sadden me to know that people do go through these things in life.  

One of my favorite things of the book, other than bringing light to some serious topics, is that a couple of the characters tell naked truths. Naked truths are where you tell the honest, brutal truth, no matter what. I think if people were more honest with each other, people would be somewhat happier.

Women's Lit Book Review of It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Some of the characters were very well developed and some weren't quite as developed. Despite this, I fell in love with all of the characters and became emotionally attached to them, even the ones who turned out to be not so good. I hope she writes a sequel to it because I just have to know what happens with the characters.

Synopsis:  After graduating college, Lily Bloom moves from a small town in Maine to Boston, Massachusetts to work in marketing. One night, she finds herself sitting on the roof of a nearby building after having a bad day when Ryle Kincaid appears on the roof. Months later, Lily decides to start her own business only to run into him yet again and a romance begins to blossom.

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