Ages 18+
Cary and Shiloh have known each other since their school days, and they meet back up at a mutual friend’s wedding in 2006. Going back and forth from their high school days to now, Rowell tells us Shiloh and Cary’s story, but will they end up together? This book was slow for me in the beginning and I almost gave up on it, but I stuck with it and I’m glad I did.
Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
Ages 18+
Four freshmen become inseparable friends at the beginning of their college careers even though they come from different worlds: Lainey is a California party girl, Tyson is from D.C. and hopes to become a lawyer one day, Hannah is a Southern belle and Summer is a recruited athlete from the Midwest. Tragedy strikes their small group, however, and their lives are forever changed. Now, years later, the friends reunite to help Hannah through a horrific break-up just before her wedding, and she knows she can rely on her friends in her time of need. This book was both heartbreaking and uplifting, and I give it all the stars!
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Ages 18+
This book was unputdownable, propulsive, and just plain sexy. I loved it!
Cassidy is offered her dream job in Hollywood thanks to her best friend. She moves from Texas after a horrible heartbreak, and is now working as an assistant for actress Marisol Torres and her husband Nate Sterling. She starts out doing simple errands for them like grocery shopping and re-organizing Marisol’s closet, but as she gets closer to the couple, things heat up, and she gets entangled in their web. I couldn’t put this book down. Highly recommend!
Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
Ages 18+
The sixth in the Lily Dale Mysteries series, this latest installment felt a bit stale and repetitive.
Still filled with the same quirky characters, this book follows Bella as she leaves Chicago with her son after her former mother-in-law’s wedding. Back in Lily Dale, Bella sees her husband Sam, but she can’t have seen him, because he’s dead…or is he?
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Ages 18+
In August 1975, Barbara Van Laar vanishes from her summer camp in the Adirondacks. This was fourteen years after her older brother Bear, had gone missing from the same camp, never to be found again. The premise seems intriguing and I was excited to read this one, but I was bored with it about halfway through. Unfortunately this book didn’t work for me.
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Ages 18+
Technically the fourth in the Meant To Be series, this book can be read as a stand alone. It is a retelling of Disney’s Tangled. A bit saccharine, it was a cute story about Ren, a book-smart girl who is sheltered by her parents. She then goes away to college and meets bad-boy Fitz, who is assigned to show her around campus. They end up on a road-trip together and the story goes from there. It dragged a bit in the middle, but ultimately was a triumph in the end.
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Ages 18+
Amber. Daphne. Daisy Ann. And of course, Jackson. They’re back, and what are they up to now? Jackson and Daphne are divorced and he has just gotten out of jail for tax evasion, and Amber is living her best life as a prominent socialite. However, Daphne’s daughter runs away from home to be with her father, and Daphne reluctantly agrees to return to Bishops Harbor to let him have supervised visits. This highly awaited second book was twisty, propulsive. Highly recommend!
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Ages 18+
Scriiiiiitch. Ethan Marsh keeps hearing the sound of the tent being ripped as he was sleeping in as a ten-year-old boy in his supposedly safe backyard with his best friend Billy in his dreams as a now forty-year-old man. This dream haunts him every night. He does everything he does to quell them: therapy, journaling, you name it. But he can’t get that sound out of his head. Follow Ethan as Sager takes us on this journey back and forth from 1994 to present day as Ethan tries to figure out what happened to his best friend Billy thirty years ago. This book was thrilling and a definite page-turner that you don’t want to miss!
Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
Ages 18+
This was an unputdownable book! Although a touch long and reminded me a bit of “The Series of Unfortunate Events,” this book was propulsive and I couldn’t stop reading it! I have been a long-time fan of Harding’s work, and this one definitely didn’t disappoint!
Camryn Lane is a debut author who has written her first novel, but there is an online troll who has written many one-star reviews about her work. Not only that, but it seems they have escalated and want to ruin her real-life relationships as well. Camryn becomes as obsessed to fight the troll, but at what cost will she go to stop them?
Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
Grades 9-12
Fun fact: I loved this book! As a lover of music and all things YA, I adored Darcy and Russell’s story.
Darcy has just attended a music festival and her bus broke down, so she’s stuck at the bus station and what’s more, her phone is dead. She needs to find a charger fast. She connects with Russell, whose charger she asks to borrow, but whose phone also happens to be dead.
The two hit it off, though, and Darcy, believing in love at first sight, begins to wonder if Russell is the one, but can she really fall in love in less than a day?
Thanks to Simon & Schuster for a review copy of this book.
Michelle’s Bookish Life 