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This Chick Read: Crazy Spooky Love (Melody Bittersweet #1) by Josie Silver

Melody Bittersweet see’s dead people. Psychic powers run in her family and Melody decides to separate from the family business and open up her own- Girls’ Ghostbusting Agency. With her best friend Melanie and brand new ghostbuster in training Artie, they get their first client. Unravel the mysterious haunting of a local mansion who’s owner would like the ghosts to stop scaring away the potential buyers. Up against her ex-boyfriend Leo Dark and trailed by local reporter Fletcher Gunn who is always trying to discredit her family, Melody is determined to solve this case and launch her business.

This was not your typical Josie Silver novel. It had a cozy mystery feeling, with hints of wackiness and a very small amount of romance. This author works her magic and despite this not being something I’d normally read, she captured my interest because I was kept wondering what craziness could possibly happen next!

I very easily cast reality aside and with Crazy Spooky Love, you really need to throw away the logic and let in the cookiness. This book is a bit silly, but Josie Silver still writes characters that a reader can love. I felt kind of sorry for Melody’s unlucky in love persona because I’m sure growing up seeing dead people couldn’t have been easy for a teenager. As an adult, though, she’s doing alright! She has two handsome guys vying for her attention and has the smarts to put the ghostly clues together to come out on top in the end. Again, silly, but fun and very easy to read- if you’re in the mood! ❤️❤️❤️❣️

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This Chick Read: Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver

Charlie Francisco saw his screenwriting career die along with his divorce and inherited his father’s talent agency. His first job is to find someone to act the job of a romance author for a book that is about to be released. Kate Elliott hasn’t had an acting job since she was a teenager, but now that she’s recently divorced she needs to find work. She sends a letter to her old agent but it lands in the hands of his son, Charlie. When Kate walks in the door for her interview he knows she’s the perfect person to play this unusual role. She’s act as this author, who doesn’t want anything to do with the book or launch, and help the book become a success. What they both don’t count on is for her to go viral, sending the book to the top of the bestselling list.

This was quite an unusual premise and I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about a main character whose job is to act like an author. When Kate was introduced, however, I immediately loved her. She was sad, sassy, a bit of a hot mess, and totally irresistible. She made her job totally believable that I couldn’t help but like her. Charlie, too, seemed to find her zaniness attractive. The two of them had immediate chemistry but their relationship leaned towards friendship more than a hot romance, at least at first. When things started to become difficult he was the shoulder she leaned on and the slow burn romance began.

Kate was really the star of this book. She had some great monologues, her relationship with her sister is one that any family of girls would want to emulate, and we can all bond over her terrible ex. He was really kind of horrible. Most importantly, we got to read a great redemption arc. Kate overcame adversity and we were lucky enough to bear witness to her comeback. I love those types of novels! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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This Chick Read: A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

When Iris and her best friend Bobby walk the streets of and find an Italian street fair, Iris spots a little gelateria that looks to be the same as the one in a photo of her mother’s. The next day, Iris goes back to that shop and meets the owner, Gio Belotti, and sample’s a taste of their vanilla gelato and realizes it’s the exact same one her mother used to make her. Gio shares that his uncle, who owns the shop, is in the hospital and that formula may be lost if he never regains his memory. Iris offers her services as a chef to help “recreate” the recipe and get’s to know Gio and his family and falls in love with them both.

Iris came to New York to escape from a bad relationship but to also see the places in New York that meant the most to her now deceased mother. When she finds work and starts to build her small family of friends in Bobby and his partner Robin, it seems natural that she is living near the places that her mother loved. As the book goes on she learns more about her mother, the struggles she went through and through that process gains strength in herself. Iris particularly went through a lot of self discovery and came out stronger. When she meets Gio, she is immediately attracted to him and is drawn to his family. Their warmth and generosity fills up that lonely place inside.

A Winter In New York is a novel that feels nostalgic, and there certainly is quite a bit of looking back in the form of learning the story of Iris’s mother, but it is also a story about moving forward. Iris finds her inner strength and finally finds a place where she feels like she belongs. Even if it takes her a while to believe in that place and in herself. I liked this story a lot, and especially loved the Belotti family, Gio, and his daughter Bella. That family is the one that we all want to belong to and it was easy to root for Iris to untangle her life and believe that she deserves this happiness she has found. The satisfying conclusion was everything I wanted to read. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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