Love & Other Mushy Stuff - Lyndsey Gallagher

 

"𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝒎𝒆."

𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚛𝚋
When it comes to love, sassy psychotherapist Abby Queenan has a hard time accepting her own advice. Jilted at the alter by her childhood sweetheart, she prefers to invest in other people's happy ever afters than strive for her own. When the radio station she works for announces a once in a lifetime competition, she searches for a swoon-worthy famous male guest to feature on her show and up her ratings. Irish rugby legend, Callum Connolly is the classic example of male perfection. He's not looking for 'the one', merely 'the next one'. That is until his teammates bet he can't keep the same woman long enough to attend his best friend's wedding. The two strike an unlikely, but alluring deal. Can Abby finally learn to take her own advice? Or will Callum nail his most elusive touchdown yet?

𝙼𝚢 𝙾𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗
I finished Love & Other Mushy Stuff on Valentine's Day and let me tell you that was the perfect day to read a book like this one.

Lydsey came up with a full of love book that got me hooked the whole reading, with the characters development, their history and situations.

We find Abby, who has a radio show ‘Ask Abby’ which is dedicated to giving love advice, and Callum, an Irish rugby legend and the perfect guy who every girl is in love with. One chapter will be from Abby's perspective and the next one from Callum's point of view, going on through the book.

As you can read by the title, this is a love story but more than love you will find two people afraid of it because of different situations in their live that will not let them fully love until they met the right person to do it.

Of Magpies and Men - Ode Ray

This new entry is very exciting as this is the first A Quintillion Reads blog tour. Thank you @aquintillionreads and Ode Ray for the opportunity of reading this book.

"Benedict could not recall ever receiving a text message from his seventy-something mother before."

Blurb 

Two corpses wash ashore in a picturesque Italian village, the violence that put them there is bound to a long-held secret and two strangers living worlds apart with seemingly nothing in common.  
Benedict Grant a wealthy Londoner, leading a lonely life.  
Marie Boulanger a nurse and single mum, struggling to make ends meet in Marseille. 

My Opinion

I wondered how all of these stories could make sense all together, how the book cover pieces would make sense, once I started reading I was not able to stop until the end.

We find three different and, at first glance, not related stories in different scenarios, however, Ode will make the stories link together in an amazing way.

Starting with two dead bodies and an investigation in course by Detective Giandomenico Paoli, moving seven years back to know the life of Benedict 30 years old and rich in London and Marie with her seven old son in Marseille. Alternating chapters between them.

I loved the way the chapters are not long and you can learn about the characters and their lives, as I said, it might be weird at the beginning not knowing how the stories will be connected but you will be surprised. 

Drama, family problems, secrets, love, mystery, all in one book, in one story that interconnect different characters in different locations