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ChefRaven reviewed The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand

Elin Hilderbrand: The Perfect Couple (2018, Little, Brown)

From New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, comes a novel about the many ways …

Review of 'The Perfect Couple' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Fun page turner. I PERSONALLY didn't care for the ending but other than that it was really great.

The timeline jumping around got really frustrating. I kept having to go back and see what date it was on. There wasn't really a character I felt connected to. The book was long and got repetitive at times and there were a couple of plot lines that could easily have been dropped (Robin for instance) and allowed for more depth with other characters, specifically the victim.

ChefRaven rated Raising the dad: 3 stars

No cover — Tom Matthews: Raising the dad (2018, Thomas Dunne Books)

Raising the dad by Tom Matthews

ChefRaven rated The word is murder: 4 stars

Anthony Horowitz: The word is murder (2018)

The word is murder by Anthony Horowitz

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral …

ChefRaven rated All We Ever Wanted: 3 stars

All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin

"In the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, a …

ChefRaven reviewed From the corner of the oval by Beck Dorey-Stein

"In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in DC when a posting on Craigslist …

Review of 'From the corner of the oval' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

The two stars was because the Obama stuff was fun and enjoyable. The rest was a mess of her getting drunk all the time and rambling on incessantly about how she shouldn’t be sleeping with someone and then turning around and sleeping with them. Over and over and over again.