Rating: 4 / 5 GHOSTS by Dolly Alderton follows Nina Dean, a young woman who has reached her thirties with a good life, but a single life. She has loved ones around her and a good career as a food writer, but she's still looking for love. When she meets Max, everything seems to click… Continue reading GHOSTS by Dolly Alderton
Tag: Contemporary
DON’T EVER TELL by Lucy Dawson
Scheduled Release: 6/25/2019 Rating: 4 / 5 DON’T EVER TELL by Lucy Dawson is a book that caught my eye on NetGalley as I’ve been craving more and more thrillers of late. The book follows Charlotte, a wife and mother of two who works from home as a thriller writer. On one level she seems… Continue reading DON’T EVER TELL by Lucy Dawson
SUMMER OF THE MARIPOSAS by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Rating: 3 / 5 SUMMER OF THE MARIPOSAS by Guadalupe Garcia McCall is about a very interesting summer vacation! The book tells the story of five sisters who discover a newly deceased body floating in the river near their home in Texas. After contemplating their options and upon discovering that the man has an ID… Continue reading SUMMER OF THE MARIPOSAS by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
Rating: 3.5 / 5 HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado is a collection of short stories. It has been critically acclaimed and as such it fulfills a few challenge prompts. It was a Lambda Literary Award winner (a prompt for the #readingwomenchallenge) and it was a National Book Award finalist (a #aroundtheyearin52books… Continue reading HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS by Sara Blaedel
Rating: 3 / 5 I am a HUGE fan of used bookstores - I really couldn't afford to read as much as I do without getting a good deal on books in addition to using my local libraries! I have a fabulous little used book store that I have been visiting since I was in… Continue reading THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS by Sara Blaedel
HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie
Rating: 4 / 5 As you can see, my copy of HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie has been very well broken in (it arrived pretty beat up from a used book distributor). I was a little bit disappointed in the condition when it arrived, but once I started reading the book I was completely enthralled… Continue reading HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie
THE WEDDING DATE by Jasmine Guillory
Rating: 3.5 / 5 THE WEDDING DATE by Jasmine Guillory was my pick for the wedding prompt on this year’s Popsugar Reading Challenge. It also conveniently checks off the Romance square on the Reading Women's Podacast birthday bingo! This book follows Alexa and Drew, two strangers that meet when they get stuck in an elevator… Continue reading THE WEDDING DATE by Jasmine Guillory