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South West Series

I recently finished the South West series by Rebecca Paulinyi, which I started back in 2024 when I downloaded the first book for free during a stuff your Kindle event. I liked it enough to buy the second book and then recently decided to take advantage of a three month trial of Kindle Unlimited to finish the series (and read a few other books that I couldn’t get through the library.)

I find these books to be charming, quick reads. We start out in book one by meeting Lee Jones, who impulsively moves to a town in Devon after discovering her husband is cheating on her.  In book three, we meet her sister, Beth Davies, who moves to Devon to shake up her boring life. Lee and Beth continue to be the focus through book six, and then the last two books are about related characters.

The books in order:

  • The Worst Christmas Ever: Christmas in Devon
  • Lawyers & Lattes: Happily Ever After in Devon
  • Feeling the Fireworks: Starting Over in Devon
  • The Best Christmas Ever: A Wedding in Devon
  • Trouble in Tartan: True Love in Devon
  • Summer of Sunshine: Missing Devon
  • Healing the Heartbreak: Moving On in Devon
  • Dancing Till Dawn: First Love in Devon

I am glad I finally got the chance to read the rest of these books. They are fun, feel-good reads.

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This Is How You Lose the Time War

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

📚Summary

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.

✍️My Thoughts

My first impression of this novella was that it was very odd and possibly not for me. But I decided to keep reading and eventually fell in love with it. I loved how the relationship between Red and Blue developed through their correspondence and how it changed their understanding of the world they lived in. And I especially enjoyed the twists and turns the story took at the end.