A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: seven new books read (four from my Up Next shelf), three new books I want to read ranging from a space opera romance to a laugh out loud collection of essays on identity to a fairy tale retelling of Mexican folklore and a look at my monthly book challenge: #NonfictionNovember!
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A detailed look at October’s reading habits: 24 books, no DNFs, four books knocked off my Up Next shelf, 12 new books at the top of my want to read list–two of which I’ve already purchased–and six new book reviews with the following themes: whodunnit mystery, classic romance tropes, challenging beauty ideals and meant to be (part two).
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Series: Standalone
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers slowly begin opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths.
As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the tension mounts and even deeper secrets are slowly revealed. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people.
Format: Paperback
Rating: 4.75/5 stars
(more…)A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: four new books read (finished one book from my Up Next shelf), three new books I want to read, one a memoir and two that explore the sinister side of sisterhood and an in-depth discussion of my October Hopefuls List!
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My October Book Haul includes both my hardcopy and ebook purchases I’ve made since my September book haul (click here to see). The haul totals to 14 books (including ebooks), and every book, except for two, is a book I’ve wanted to read for months! Despite October being a month dedicated to spooky reads, I’ve never been much of a mystery/thriller fan. However, I’m broadening my typical reading genres by including a mystery in this haul!
(more…)A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: six new books read, finished one book from my Up Next shelf, three new books I want to read that explore unabashedly explore life’s complexities and the excitement of finding out the release date of the penultimate book in one of my favourite series!
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Series: Standalone
Release Date: June 14, 2020
At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached addressed, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens.
Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she’s the one for him. So dedicated to her love for Lucas, Emmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship—she’s given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to build bridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady she barely knows after being laid off from her job. And when Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, she’s convinced this is the moment he’ll reveal his feelings for her. But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it?
Emmie Blue is about to learn everything she thinks she knows about life (and love) is just that: what she thinks she knows. Is there such thing as meant to be? Or is it true when they say that life is what happens when you are busy making other plans? A story filled with heart and humor, Dear Emmie Blue is perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Evvie Drake Starts Over.
Format: Kindle
Rating: 3/5 stars
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Series: Standalone
Release Date: October 13, 2020
Of course, if she’d known he’d request that she be his wife for twelve months, she’d have hesitated in accepting his help. Because what she’d learned from Dane was that the devil wasn’t ugly and terrorising. He was seductive and captivating. He hummed with whispers of temptation – the temptation to sin and surrender, to let him brand and possess you. He awakened every need and fantasy you had.
He could even make you love him.
Format: Kindle
Rating: 4.5/5 stars
(more…)A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: five new books read, finished two books from my Up Next shelf, three new books I want to read that all seem like impactful reads and two anticipated books releasing this week–one of which I reviewed as an eARC two weeks ago!
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Series: Standalone
Release Date: June 30, 2020
Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each other’s emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women, they’ve struggled with their bodies and food since childhood, and high school finds them turning to food—or not—to battle the waves of insecurity and the yearning for popularity. But their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive, a yin to yang. when Rose stops eating, Lily starts—consuming everything Rose won’t or can’t.
Within a few years, Rose is about to mark her one-year anniversary in a rehabilitation facility for anorexics. Lily, her sole visitor, is the only thing tethering her to a normal life.
But Lily is struggling, too. A kindergarten teacher, she dates abusive men, including a student’s married father, in search of the close yet complicated companionship she lost when she became separated from Rose.
When Lily joins a cult diet group led by a social media faux feminist, whose eating plan consists of consuming questionable non-caloric foods, Rose senses that Lily needs her help. With her sister’s life in jeopardy, Rose must find a way to rescue her—and perhaps, save herself.
Illuminating some of the most fraught and common issues confronting women, Thin Girls is a powerful, emotionally resonant story, beautifully told, that will keep you turning the pages to the gratifying, hopeful end.
Format: Hardcover
Rating: 5/5 stars
Trigger Warning: This review discusses topics that can be triggering for some. Please read the ‘Possible Triggers’ tab above for details.
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