Audio: Maybe this time by Cara Bastone

By: Cara Bastone

Narrated by: Zoë Chao, Noah Reid, Josh Hurley, Beata Pozniak, Jim Seybert, Emily Lawrence, Tina Wolstencroft, Petrea Burchard, Joel Simler, Aaron Shedlock, Christian Barillas, Eric Yves Garcia, Alex Picard, Lorrie Grant, Full Cast

Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: Audible Originals

Categories: Romance

Aww this one was cute, and different! It would be the perfect romcom movie.

June is stuck 85 years in the future after falling into a wormhole. She has been there for 5 years, hidden as to not destroy all of space and time.

In the present we have Mikey, gym teacher, good guy, and who knows June. The buttoned up teacher that he does not really have any contact with. But then he gets a weird phone call, from June, from the future. He was the only one that she strangely could contact. And she needs his help, befriend present day June so that she does not fall through the worm hole!

Future June is fun and quirky. Present day June has anxiety, a crush on the math teacher, too many responsibilities, and finds it weird when Mikey keeps talking to her.

Full cast, I was really living through it. Great narration from everyone, and it did feel like a movie. It was funny, I did not know how it would end? Obvi June and Mikey belonged together, but we have 2 Junes!

Fun, short! I like short, and enjoyable

Romance can be a little complicated when you get sucked into a wormhole. Just ask high school English teacher June Flint. One little solar flare happens and suddenly you find yourself 85 years in the future. Eighty-five years from your dream job. Your ailing mother whose only companion in this world is you. Your favorite stuffed-crust pizza from DeLucia’s on Sunday nights.

But when June’s cell phone inexplicably picks up a signal, she’s able to call back to the present—more specifically, four weeks before she accidentally time traveled. Problem is, the phone can only call one number: her work nemesis, gym teacher Mikey Shannon.

Now future June must help Mikey befriend present-day June to keep her from disappearing. But present-day June doesn't even want to be in the same room as Mikey, let alone become besties. And Mikey isn’t exactly...talkie. Yet he’s spending hours a day with future June on the phone, and even more time trying to befriend present-day June. Volunteering with June at school, check. Facing his fear of roller coasters to make June smile, check. Adopting a puppy and letting her name it. Check.

But what does succeeding in the present mean for future June, and for the serious feelings she and Mikey are starting to catch for one another? Stopping time travel is one thing—but can they stop themselves from falling in love?

Best of April

 

It's gonna be MAAAAAAAAAY.

Here are our faves for April. 

Best Book of the Month:

Blodeuedd - This Kingdom will not kill me by Ilona Andrews

"Best book, cos omg amazing."

Carole -  The Reunion by Meghan Quinn

"So dang good. I want to re-read it!!!"

Best Movie of the Month:

Carole -  Hamnet (2025)

"I was in awe. So good. Beautiful."

Blodeuedd - Thrash (2026)

"Best movie, because sharks are scary."

Best TV show of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Mentalist (s1) & Ena: Queen Victoria Eugenia

"I finally watched s1 of The Mentalist, I also watched Ena, which I really enjoyed."

Carole - St Denis Medical (S2)

"I'm really liking this show. Love the cast. Sooo funny and oddly heart-warming."

Best Cover of the Month:

Carole's - "Creepy and cool!"

Blodeuedd's - "Cute!"

Honorable Mention:

Blodeuedd - Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

"People were right! It is even better in audio!"

Carole - The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig

"It was so nice re-reading this! So dang good."

The maid´s secret by Nita Prose

Series: Molly the Maid (#3)

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

Published: April 1, 2025 by Harper Collins

Mystery/own

No murder this time but a theft. Molly brings something to be valued and omg she is rich! But things happen and we have a mystery to solve.

I liked that we finally got her gran's backstory, but at the same time it took away so much from Molly so I did not enjoy it as much then.

Molly and the gang are fun, but yes this is a lot about her gran's history. I still enjoyed the book. This series is a fun and fastread

Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and recently promoted Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, good things are just around the corner, including her marriage to her beloved fiancé, Juan Manuel, only two months away. 

But Molly’s entire existence is upended when a film crew descends upon the hotel to shoot the hit reality TV show Hidden Treasures, starring popular art appraisers Brown and Beagle. On a whim, Molly brings in a shoebox containing a few of her gran’s old things for appraisal, and much to everyone's surprise, one item turns out to be a rare and priceless treasure. Instantly, Molly is both a multi-millionaire and a media sensation—the world’s rags-to-riches darling—until the priceless piece vanishes from the hotel in the boldest, brashest antiquities heist in recent memory.

The key to the mystery lies in the past, in a long-forgotten diary written by Molly’s gran. For the first time ever, Molly learns about Gran’s true-to-life fairytale, a young girl to the manor born, the only child of a wealthy magnate. But when Gran falls head over heels in love with a young man her parents deem below her station, her life is thrown into turmoil. As fate would have it, the greatest love of Gran’s life is someone Molly knows quite well….

Together with her friends, Molly combs the past and the present to catch the thief before looming threats against her become real.

The teller of small fortunes by Julie Leong

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Published: October 16, 2025 by Hodderscape

Cozy fantasy/own

Awww, another cute one. I do admit, at first I was a little hesitant, cozy fantasy is just so sweet, and slow. Is this for me? But then I was swept away by this pleasant story. Easy to read, fast to read.

Tao travels around in her wagon telling small fortunes. Those are easier for people to handle. The big ones, yeah people are not good with those. She also moves on fast as people have a tendency to want one thing and when it does happen, kind of scary.

She meets a thief and a mercenary that is tracking bandits who stole the mercenary´s child. Then she also comes across a baker who wants to see more of the world, and maybe try new things. A cat shows up and suddenly they do need more wagons. They travel to villages, selling fortunes, baked goods, searching for a missing daughter.

There is some danger, two countries heading into war, and she is originally from the other one. And why is she travelling alone?

But this is a cozy fantasy, only good things happen. And things work out as this is one book. No cliffhangers. I enjoyed it a great deal.

Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences…

Even if it’s a lonely life, it’s better than the one she left behind. But a small fortune unexpectedly becomes something more when a (semi) reformed thief and an ex-mercenary recruit her into their desperate search for a lost child. Soon, they’re joined by a baker with a knead for adventure, and—of course—a slightly magical cat.

Tao sets down a new path with companions as big-hearted as her fortunes are small. But as she lowers her walls, the shadows of her past are closing in—and she’ll have to decide whether to risk everything to preserve the family she never thought she could have.