All the Things we Never Knew

📚 Book Review: All the Things we Never Knew

Sophie Ranald

🗓️ Publication Date: October 3, 2025

📚 My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

📚 My Review: A heartfelt story of grief, betrayal, and unexpected connections. The story wove the pain of loss, while revealing difficult truths within the family with honesty and care. I enjoyed the writing style and while the pace was often full of heavy emotions, it mixed heartbreak and hope in a way that stays with you. A moving and thoughtful read! If you love family drama, this one's for you!

Thank you to Storm Publishing via Netgalley for the eARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

📚Goodreads Synopsis: A marriage built on secrets. A family torn apart. A love that could heal them all.

When Anna Graham finds diamond earrings in her husband’s drawer the day before Valentine’s Day, she knows they’re not for her – her ears aren’t even pierced. Gray is having an affair – but before she can confront him about his betrayal, he receives a terminal cancer diagnosis that shatters their family.

As Gray lies dying in their Damask Square home, Anna meets Laurel – the nurse who stole her husband’s heart. Despite her rage, Anna finds herself sharing Gray’s final days with this other woman, both desperate to ease his suffering while drowning in their own grief.

But hidden in their loft, Anna discovers traces of a stranger – a boy who was a gifted pianist, who had a different life before he became her husband. As she struggles to hold herself together for her teenage children, Anna realises everything she believed about Gray was built on carefully constructed lies.

Can two women who loved the same man find a way to heal – and help each other discover who Gray really was?

Book Review: Love Walked In

📚 Book Review: Love Walked In

Sarah Chamberlain

🗓️ Publication Date: Sept 2, 2025

📚 My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

📚 My Review: This was a cozy, bookish romance with all the makings of a well done opposites-attract story. I enjoyed the grumpy/sunshine dynamic, especially with the witty banter and the slow-burn shift from tension to affection. I loved the behind-the-scenes look at bringing the old bookshop back to life and felt that the added family elements gave the story extra heart and depth. A charming, feel-good read perfect for anyone who loves books, romance, and second chances!

Thank you to St Martin's Press | Griffin via netgalley for the eARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

📚Goodreads Synopsis: He has a struggling bookshop. She has a knack for bringing bookstores back to life. As soon as she walks into his store, all bets are off… 

Mari Cole’s whole life is her dream rescuing and revitalizing indie bookstores. Friendship? Love? No thanks. After a hard childhood, she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone. Besides, books have never let Mari down the way people have.Then she gets the offer of a rescuing Ross & Co. Once the most prestigious independent booksellers in London, the store is a shadow of its former self and needs an expert outsider to turn things around. But the offer turns out to be a double-edged Leo Ross, the store's new owner, is as cold and hostile as the British winter.

For as long as he can remember, Leo Ross has known his future is becoming the next generation to run Ross and Co. He’s sacrificed almost everything he cares about, but the bookshop is still failing on his watch, and now there's an obnoxiously cheerful American woman convinced that she's going to magically make everything better. Leo’s life is difficult and messy enough as it is, and he doesn’t want her help.

When Mari and Leo are forced to work closely together to bring the store back to life, Leo's icy surface thaws to reveal the passionate man underneath. As the cold winter gives way to the possibility of new beginnings, Mari begins to see that true love could be even better in real life than in the pages of a book. Can they put their pasts aside and learn to let love in?