Good little line up for this month!
I really like Rosie Walsh, I feel like she is a good write and enjoyed “Ghosted” from her as well as this book, “The Love of My Life.” Emma has everything she wants in life, a good husband, a sweet little girl, a career…but everything they know about her is based on lies, her past full of secrets. Her husband, being a obituary writer, starts looking into Emma’s past when she becomes ill, and realizes that her person really doesn’t exist. He starts putting pieces of the puzzle together, trying to figure out who is is sharing his life with, when the truth finally comes out. There is so much to unpack with her story, a lot of it was really sad, a situation of a young girl being somewhat taken advantage of, and forced to make difficult decisions about the other love of her life.
“Every Summer After” was a cute book, good story albeit based on some bad decisions and communications, but I’m assuming that is par for course when a romance novel is concerned! Persephone has spent summer after teenage summer with her parents at the lake. Sam lives there, and over the years they form what seems to be an unbreakable bond. Years later, when she has her own life in the city, she gets a sad phone call that brings her back to the lake, to face all of the things that happened that drove her and Sam apart.
I love this little Finlay Donovan series. “Finaly Donovan Jumps the Gun” was another good read this series, picking up where they left off in the second book where she is indebted to a mob boss who is still running things from prison. Finlay and Vero are still working to identify a contract killer who tried to take out her husband, and it might be a police officer. They get themselves invited to a citizen’s police academy, so Finlay and Vero have the perfect opportunity to try and figure out who it is. They get in over the head as usual, but somehow find their way out.
Liv Constantine is another one of my favorite author duos, so I was excited when they put out a new book. “The Senator’s Wife” was a good physiological thriller, that honestly had a twist at the end that I did not see coming. Sloane’s husband and Senator Whit’s spouses were both tragically killed, so naturally being friends prior to their deaths, they become more than that as time goes on. Sloane has plenty of money, loves to give and support charities, but her wealth also makes her somewhat vulnerable. She also has to have surgery, because of her lupus, so they hire a home health person to come and live with them during her recovery. Athena seems to be everything Sloane needs, but then mysteriously she takes a turn for the worse. Sloane becomes more sick as time goes on, and more paranoid that someone is doing this to her, but who might that be? Like I said, did not see the twist coming at the end and enjoyed this darker fallish read!
I listened to “The French Art of Living Well” and had a lot of mixed feelings about it…I think mainly because I was expecting it to be more about food and culture, when it was a lot more about the sensuous side of French culture and how that has shaped their society. Kind of one of those books where you take some parts and leave the others. I did enjoy reading about the “joy of living,” and just the thoughts on making the most of your life.
Oh Kate Morton haha…I have seen her books for a while now and thought I would try reading one, but after “Homecoming,” I am not sure that she is the author for me. The book begins with a mystery it begins with in the late 50s, where a mother and all of her children are found dead except for the baby, who is missing. A man comes across the family, police investigate but can never quite figure out what exactly happened or why it happened. Years later, Jess is working in Europe as a journalist, but is called back to Australia because her grandmother, Nora, isn’t doing well. Nora raised Jess, but she has many secrets about her connection to the family that passed, and many things she has covered up from her own past. I think this is the part of the book that really frustrated me…Nora had traumatizing things happen to her in her childhood and adulthood, but she never got the help she needed to work through them…so in turn, her own daughter suffered the consequences. Nora in essence drove her daughter away, making her feel incapable of raising her own daughter, destroying the relationship between them. This book felt a lot longer than it needed to be, but I will say the second half was better than the first, because the story picked up and started moving along. The mystery is finally solved, and there was definitely more to it than meets the eye, but overall I just struggled through a good portion of this book.
Well, that is August for you! Hope you found something interesting! I love heading into fall and switching into more mysterious genres, so hopefully I will have some good ones coming your way!
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