Wrapped in the Stars by Elena Mikalsen 5*

Wrapped in the Stars is romantic, historical and mysterious all at once and keep the reader guessing.  Maya has issues with her pediatric residency and takes a leave of absence that takes her to Scotland.  There she follows instinct, and a Robin, and buys an antique ring in a shop in Edinburgh.  Her dreams are haunted with a woman connected to the ring, who it turns out was also a physician before women were allowed to practice, over 100 years ago.

Mikalsen does a great job of putting the reader in all of her beautifully described settings and making the characters and era come alive.  I found myself looking for magical robins!

Great read!

I got this book from NetGalley.  I'm happy to offer this review.

California Girls by Susan Mallery. 4*

Three sisters, brought together by the decision of their mother to leave the family home, must deal with life changes and the evolution of romance.  Finnola, tv star and woman who has everything, learns in humiliating ways of her husband's infidelity.  Ali, a working class girl who believes she's about to embark on her happily ever after, is  jilted nearly at the altar, and her fiancee's brother is there to pick up the pieces.  Zennie, whose romantic life is more love em and leave em than forever, is asked to carry her best friends' baby.  Each of the sisters struggles with her relationship with the others and find their own path to happiness, not what any of them expected,
Susan Mallery writes great, complex characters and puts them in interesting situations that make the reader keep turning the pages. California Girls follows the pattern and will leave new and old readers of Mallery satisfied.  Nice to have intelligent characters in non- traditional situations.

I got this book from the publisher through NetGalley. Regardless, this is an honest review.