I don’t think I’ve read a book by this author before. After reading this book I’m definitely looking for more of her books. It’s about family, secrets kept and coming back together. There was parts of this book that made me tear up and that hardly ever happens.
I really enjoyed this book!
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the early copy

Three sisters come together following the death of their grandmother to clean out her home and find an unfinished quilt. All three also have secrets. Healing, truth telling, and quilting...a quick satisfying and hopeful read.

I read this because I thought it would be something light after many months of Covid. I found myself enmeshed in the storylines of five women - three sisters, their mom and their grandmother. Two of the sisters were embroiled in the angst of unrequited love leftover from their teen years. It didn’t help that each chapter started with an excerpt from old diaries - more storylines. Everyone learned in the end that honest and open communication makes for happier families.

I realized after the fact that this author has written many romances and has a legion of loyal readers. Though I had to do some skimming at times, this was a light and entertaining read.

As a quilter, I appreciate the legacy that is sewn into quilt with every stitch. Lark and Hannah return home to help their mother and sister, Avery, after their grandmother passed away. Each carried a secret that the rest of the family did not know. While going through her grandmother's possessions in the attic, Lark discovers a journal with swatches for a quilt. Thus begins the journey for the three sisters and mother to make a quilt to honor their grandmother, and heal from their past. I enjoyed the book, but the sister's reflections on their past "sins" got to be a little repetitious. I persevered and was rewarded in the end.

A cozy mystery for all those quilters and makers. There's a reason sewing circles have existed for decades. This family story with its multiple personalities confirms strength and healing in sharing harbored feelings. This reader's hopes resulted in speedy page turning.

This is the story of a family. A Mother and her 3 daughters are deciding what to do with the Grandmothers house and belongings. There are diary passages from the past woven into the story. The women decide to finish a quilt with a note attached and decide to finish it together. Along the way they share secrets and begin to re connect. The characters were interesting and so were the stories of the individual women. The book dragged a little for me which is the main reason for the 3* rating. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

I grew up watching and helping my great-great-grandmother, great-grandmother, grandmother and great-aunt's around the quilting circle. They would make the most gorgeous quilts. Most of these talented and wonderful women have passed away, now. So I was very excited to read this book and get a little glimpse into that world again.

This book is wonderful. It's beautifully written. I really enjoyed it.

Thank you NetGalley and HARLEQUIN - Romance (U.S. & Canada) for the digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed this engrossing multi-generational novel about one family of women and their secrets. From diaries of past ancestors, Lark and her sisters, Hannah and Avery learn about their struggle and resilience. After the death of their grandmother Lark finds a quilt book and material in the attic and thinks making a quilt will be a good project for the family. The sisters and their mother choose a fabric that speaks to them and create their own squares. Spending time together and talking opens up many wounds and allows the women to share secrets that have been festering for a long time. Ultimately, they better for it and closer than ever before. Highly recommended.

Confessions from the Quilting Circle
A Novel
by Maisey Yates
HARLEQUIN - Romance (U.S. & Canada)
HQN
Romance | Women's Fiction
Pub Date 04 May 2021 | Archive Date 20 May 2021

This is my first Maisey Yates read and I really enjoyed this novel. I think our patrons would enjoy this one. Thanks to Harlequin-Romance and Netgalley for the chance to read this one.

5 star

This is my first read by Maisey Yates and what a little treat of a book! Captures you from page one and doesn't let go. I will keep her on my radar. Thankful to NetGalley for allowing me to read this novel.

This was such a good read and so the dynamic between the sisters and the diary entries which parallel what they were struggling with was just so good. When Lark Ashwood’s grandmother dies, she and her sisters discover an unfinished quilt and Lark decides that this is a good reason to stop running from her past and to share her biggest secret. That is what this family has in common their ability to keep secrets and not being able to share them. Hannah can’t believe she is back in Bear Creek where she sacrificed everything to escape from but the plan is to help her sisters renovate their grandmothers house and leave as fast as she can before she is confronted with her ex that still lives in town and whose heart she broke on her way out of town. While Avery seems to have a perfect life with her doctor husband and her 2 great kids but at what cost is her perfection. Oh man the themes in this were heavy with all the secrets the sisters were carrying around and living with that made Hannah so driven and Lark never able to stay in one place for long without moving on and left Avery stuck in Bear Creek believing that she got what she wanted but at what cost. They unearth the fabric to use for the quilts which has a diary from the women the garment or curtain belonged to which by the end of the book gave you a more complete back story for all these women which was really interesting especially with how it turned out. I would really love to read more on this town and what happened after the book finishes with everyone. Just a really great read and I need to read some more books by this author

Thanks to Harlequin and Netgalley for the complimentary copy of this book in e-book form. All opinions in this review are my own.

Thanks NetGalley publishers and author for this advance readers copy!

I was so excited when I got approved for this one!
I liked everything about this book!
The characters were fun! And the story was amazing! I will be looking for more of this authors work!

This book is very good, just like the rest of Yates’ novels. The sense of family throughout the book is what drives the story forward. I will gladly be purchasing this book for my collection. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a few good read.

There was a lot to like in this book, which is why I stayed up to 1:00 a.m. on a work night reading it. Three sisters and their mother are working together to close out their grandmother/mother's estate. While cleaning out the house they find fabric for a quilt that Grandma never got around to making and through journals found with the fabric, learn about women in their family's past, including Grandma. Each of the four women was working with a different piece of fabric and of course they all end up with the one that they really needed to see, the ancestress who had a story that for whatever reason, came close to hers.

Lark and Hannah both left town with secrets, and Avery has now acquired one. As they sit and sew and as they live their lives that summer, they share their secrets and gain the strength to move beyond them. Unfortunately to me, it seemed there were just too many secrets that were just too serious to believe they all belonged to one family. Also the book had two romantic subplots and except for the fact that the men had different names and one man had a child and the other didn't, I really couldn't tell them apart. Either of the romance subplots was believable on its own, but having two so similar just didn't ring true to me.

One thing I liked about the book was that the girls' mother was a strong secondary character. While the sisters were in their 30's, their mom was about my age and she was a doer, like me. Like me she wanted to be closer to her grown kids but didn't quite know how to reach out. Like I hope I'd be, she was there for her girls when the chips were down and she knew they needed her.

The book has a couple of bedroom scenes--too much to make it a "clean" romance but nothing anywhere near an instruction manual.

I'd like to thank the publisher for making a review copy available via NetGalley. Grade: B
Review to be published 5/4/21

“You have never gone so far that you can’t come back home again.”
Confessions from the Quilting Circle by Maisey Yates Is a family drama that weaves the personal stories and heartaches of seven generations of women. Upon her death, Adeline Dowell had left her estate to her daughter, Mary. Now months later Mary is meeting her daughters Avery, Hannah, and Lark at the large old family home to make decisions for the future of The Dowell House. There are layers of history, secrets, and misunderstandings in their lives that will be uncovered in the next few weeks.
The women find the attic filled with unfinished projects left behind by Addie. There is a box of fabric that hides old diaries within the folds of fabric. Lark decides that her mom and sisters should honor Gram by finishing the memory quilt. Each woman chooses a different fabric for their blocks. This will begin the summer of the sisters getting to know one another in a deeper way and there will be life-changing decisions to make. The Ashwood girls will finally confront truths about their own lives and seek to bond with their mother.
The book has excerpts of diaries from Anabeth Snow in 1864, Ava Moore in 1923, and Dot, 1944. As each one works on their quilt blocks, they discover the secrets of past generations and how their decisions have an influence on the Ashwood women of the present day.
Publication Date: May 4, 2021 (The book does need some editing)
Thank you to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.