This week I'm so excited to talk about one of my favorite authors of all time--Traci Hunter Abramson. Her latest book is called Jim and Catherine, and all I can say is: Jim Whitmore for President!
I'm also reviewing Cry Wolf by Kathi Oram Peterson, and giving a shoutout to these honorable mentions:
Sophie Trace Trilogy by Kathy Herman, including The Real Enemy, The Last Word, and The Right Call, and
A Brilliant Match by Jennie Goutet.
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This week I'm so excited to talk about one of my favorite authors of all time--Traci Hunter Abramson. Her latest book is called Jim and Catherine, and all I can say is: Jim Whitmore for President!
I'm also reviewing Cry Wolf by Kathi Oram Peterson, and giving a shoutout to these honorable mentions:
Sophie Trace Trilogy by Kathy Herman, including The Real Enemy, The Last Word, and The Right Call, and
A Brilliant Match by Jennie Goutet.
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If you're a woman who appreciates connecting with other women in community with vulnerability and compassion, please join us in the Solidarity Sister! Facebook group at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/716800349946338/
The Solidarity Sister! Book Club has begun and runs through the end of May. We're reading Brené Brown's Gifts of Imperfection over a period of 15 weeks, and connecting via Zoom and Marco Polo. Find more info in the FB group. Sign up at https://forms.gle/ZHpfhd8hwCpw6NL2A
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Kristin:
Welcome to another book review episode of Solidarity Sister with Kristen Wilson. This week, I get to introduce you, if you haven't already found out, about one of my most favorite authors of all time. Jim and Catherine by Tracy Hunter Abramson is the star of this week's review. The given description of this book reads Jim Whitmore has lofty dreams of a bright political career. So when a well connected friend invites him home for the weekend, the promise of rubbing shoulders with her congressman father and his professional associates is thrilling. What he doesn't anticipate is meeting his friend's sister Catherine, an intriguing woman who immediately steals his heart. After witnessing the arrest of one of her father's colleagues in Congress, Catherine Hudson is far too aware of the strains of living in the spotlight of Washington politics. The last thing she wants is to date a future politician, yet despite some early misgivings, she can't resist Jim Whitmore's charm. But then Jim is accused of a crime he didn't commit. A crime that could ruin his reputation and his and Katherine's chance at happiness together. With both of their lives on the line, Jim and Katherine enlist the help of their families to prove Jim's innocence and salvage their hopes and dreams that seem ready to shatter. This little description does not do justice to just how excited I was to listen to this book, or just how much it was everything I wanted it to be. Tracy Hunter Abramson really is one of my top three favorite authors of all time when we're talking fiction. I read or listened to all of her books, and Jim and Catherine appear in three of Tracy's previous series. I cannot tell you how much I wish I could actually vote for Jim for President of the United States. Tracy worked for the CIA for several years before resigning to raise her family. I love her storylines and her characters. She gives me the perfect amount of plot twists and intrigue with characters I grow to love without excessive gore. I love the beautiful romances that she crafts and how they are all closed door on the bedroom activity. In short, I wish she had written about 200 more books. So I could just listen to those for the next six or seven months. I am a huge Tracy Hunter Abramson fan. And if you haven't listened to any of her books or read any of her books, I would say put those up high on your list. The second book I want to highlight for this week is Cry Wolf by Kathy Orem Peterson. Dania Blackwolf is bursting with excitement. After years of disappointment, she's just learned she and her husband are one step closer to having their dreams come true. Eager to tell her husband Matthew about her findings, she returns home from her night shift at the hospital. But what awaits her there is no dream. It's a nightmare. Matthew has been murdered, and Donya is the only witness to the masked intruder. With no one to corroborate her story, she is the prime suspect. When U. S. Marshal Brett Rowland's best friend Matthew was murdered, Donya was convicted of the crime, but it's never added up for Brett. Now, three years later, when Donya escapes prison and Brett finds her, he is faced with a life altering choice. Send a woman he believes to be innocent back to prison, or help her find his friend's killer. Determined to see justice done, Brett goes rogue. The unlikely allies embark on a dangerous quest to uncover the truth, but what they discover is a plot more far reaching than they ever imagined, and a truth that will test everything they thought they knew. I have yet to find a book by Kathy Oren Peterson that wasn't worth my time. I wouldn't say that this was my favorite of her books, but I definitely was held in suspense trying to figure out who really framed Danya and if the pieces would come together in time. I mean, deep down, I knew that they would, but part of me was still kind of wondering if that would be the case. Honestly, my one pet peeve about this book, and maybe this is just me, but the spelling of The main character, Dhanya, it's written as D Y A N I, and my understanding is that Should be pronounced Dayani, but then the narrator pronounced it Danya and that just is a pet peeve of mine I really like when people's names match Pronunciation like that the spelling matches the pronunciation. So that kind of got me a little bit, but honestly Definitely not a reason to skip this book. It would be worth your time to read it. I want to also throw out a couple of honorable mentions this week. I listened to the Sophie Trace Trilogy by Kathy Herman, and I enjoyed all three of those books, The Real Enemy, The Last Word, and The Right Call. Brill Jessop is the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and I like the way that this series not only gives the action and adventure of Brill on the job, But the real life struggles that families can face as we get an inside look into Brill's marriage and the struggles that her kids face and ultimately overcome. I really liked this series. I would definitely recommend it. And one more honorable mention for A Brilliant Match by Jenny Goutet. It's a sweet story of the seemingly unlikely pairing of Lady Dorothea Rowlinson, daughter of a late Earl, and Mile Shaw, who is a gentleman through and through, but is having some real financial problems. If you like proper romances, this one is definitely for you. Thank you for being part of the Solidarity Sister community. We needed you.