BOL Review: Opportunity Knocks by Alison Sweeney

Television actress Sweeney (Days of Our Lives) offers an insider’s perspective in this chick-lit offering. Alex is a green 25-year-old makeup artist in L.A., willing to take on any job she can in order to gain experience and build her base. She lucks out one day when she just happens to be hanging around the set of a daytime talk show at the very moment the guest star’s usual makeup artist is rushed to the ER with appendicitis. It’s no ordinary guest—it’s Hillary, of Everyday Life with Hillary P. (think Martha Stewart, but bitchier)...Read the full review on Booklist Online!

BOL Review: Meternity by Meghann Foye

Singleton Liz, an editor at a parenting magazine, is getting tired of taking on all the extra work from the moms in the office. She’s particularly annoyed that the editor who got the promotion Liz was in line for is constantly leaving work early so she can deal with her family life. When the boss thinks that Liz is pregnant—he sees her using a pregnancy-countdown app that she’s downloaded for an article—Liz decides this might be the way to an easier workload and perhaps even some maternity leave, a “meternity.” The plan involves a series of fake baby bumps, which Liz just barely gets away with...Read the full review on Booklist Online!

BOL Review: The Year We Turned Forty by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke

If you were offered the chance to go back in time 10 years and relive a year, would you? On the eve of their joint fiftieth-birthday party in Vegas, three friends meet a magician and get the chance to go back to the year they turned 40. Jessie wants to keep the fact that she had an affair secret from her then-husband; Gabriela wants to go back and save her failed marriage by trying to have a child; Claire wants to bond with her mother before it’s too late. Their new choices don’t always work out the way they expect... Read the full review on Booklist Online!

BOL Review: Regrets Only by M. J. Pullen

Pullen’s debut, The Marriage Pact (2015), followed a group of Atlanta friends as they navigated their way through the dating world, led by main character Marci. This follow-up centers on Marci’s best friend, Suzanne, who seems to be in her glimmering prime. She has a great job as an event planner and she’s loving life as a serial dater. Who wants to be tied down when you can be tied up? When a seemingly random accident at a high-profile event sends her career and reputation down the tubes, she finds herself accepting a gig as wedding planner for the sister of a famous country singer—and winds up falling for him. But they are as different as a country boy and a city girl could be...Read the full review on Booklist Online!

BOL Review: The Marriage Pact by M. J. Pullen

In this charming cross between romance and chick lit, Marci Thompson is unhappy with the fact that, with her thirtieth birthday approaching, she is single, living in a studio apartment, and working a temp job. Oh, and having an affair with her married boss. When her boss reveals he can’t leave his wife because she’s pregnant, Marci heads back home to Atlanta, where her old group of friends, including the handsome Jake, is waiting for her. Jake is ready to pick up where they left off—he still has the signed bar-napkin agreement that declares Marci will marry him if they are still single when they hit the big 3-0. But Marci’s been stung too many times... Read the full review on Booklist Online!