Sarah's books:
This month has been really good reading wise. I was able to complete eighteen books. Thanks quarantine! Also I didn't read any books that I really disliked this month, most of them were four and five star reads! Personally a lot has happened this month as well. We got an offer on our house that we accepted. We are hoping to settle on May 6th, and then we will be able to move to Arizona! We have started looking at apartments online, and narrowed it down to a few options. I hope with all of the changes in May I will be able to read as much as I did this month!
1. The Cabin by Natasha Preston
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: A group of friends go to a secluded cabin for the weekend. When they wake up the first morning two of them are dead. With no sign of struggle, and no breaking or entering the friends have to come to terms with the fact that one of them is a murderer.
2. The Peasant's Dream by Melanie Dickerson
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: In this "reverse Cinderella retelling" Frederick, a peasant, falls in love with Adela whom is the daughter of a duke.
3. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Synopsis: Anne and Marco's daughter disappears from her crib while they are next door at a dinner party.
4. Lobizona by Romina Garber
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: Manu's mom is detained by ICE, so she decides to delve into her family's secrets and find out who she really is.
5. Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tondo
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: A first hand account of Shoko Tondo's life growing up while her dad is the head of the Yakuza
6. The Leaving by Tara Altebrando
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: A small group of six year olds disappear. Eleven years later five of the six kids return with no memory of what happened to them.
7. Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi
Rating: somewhere betwwen 3.5 and 4/ 5 stars
Synopsis: Sam and Penny become texting friends and can hence avoid the awkwardness of meeting in real life.
8. Dreamland : The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (A Young Adult Adaptation)
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: A true story on how opiates have devastated small rural and suburban towns across America.
9. The House Guest by Mark Edwards
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: A young couple is house sitting for friends, when a woman shows up claiming to be friends with the home owners. They invite her to stay with them, but is she who she says she is?
10. Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Lexi wakes up in the hospital with amnesia. It's the year 2007, but the last thing she remembers is in the year 2004. Waking up she falls into the perfect life!
11. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Rating: 3/5 stars
Synopsis: Bridget Jones declares to reinvent her self, and journals about it along the way.
12. Alma Underwood is not a Kleptomaniac by Lacey Dailey
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Alma works in her parent's hotel and collects the odd items left behind by guests. Her greatest treasure yet might just be the boy she finds living in a train car behind her house.
13. The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: A girl from Trinidad and Tobago lost the ability to speak along with her dreams. She moves to a coastal town in Oregon with a family friend to escape her reality and meets the bad boy of the town Christian Kane.
14. Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: Castle Glower has a life of its own. It rearranges and grows when it wants to (but usually on Tuesdays). Princess Celie records and maps out her treasured home. When her parents disappear and enemies approach will Princess Celie be able to save her home?
15. Bring Me Back by B. A. Paris
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Over a decade ago Finn's girlfriend disappeared, and he never told the full truth about that night. Now that he's moved on secrets won't stay buried forever.
16. The Bookweaver's Daughter by Malavika Kannan
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: Set in a fantasy based land in India, Reya is full of secrets. Magic has been banned for the last seven years, but she is the daughter of one of the most powerful yogis in the region.
17. Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
Rating: 3/5 stars
Synopsis: Audrey has extreme social anxiety disorder, and works to recover and rehabilitate after an unpleasant incident with the help of her family, and her brother's friend Linus.
18. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Rating: 3.5/5
Synopsis: In a dystopian world, a Handmaid's sole purpose are to produce offspring for the wealthy.
Shannon's books:
I was really pleased with all I got read this month. Ten books in a month I believe is a record for me! I may have been able to get through another if my number 10 book Helen of Troy wasn't a 600 page book. However, I greatly enjoyed this read. Can't wait to see how many books I read in May.
1. Gone by Lisa McMann
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: Things should be great for Janie, she has graduated from high school and is spending her summer with Cabel, the guy she's totally in love with. But deep down she's panicking about how she's going to survive her future when getting sucked into other people's dreams is really taking its toll.
2. Columbine by Dave Cullen
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we "know" is wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on this book-widely recognized as the definitive account.
3. The Space Between Lost and Found by Sandy Stark-McGinnis
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: Cassie’s always looked up to her mom, a vivacious woman with big ideas and a mischievous smile. Together they planned to check off every item on a big-dream bucket list, no matter how far the adventure would take them. But then Mom was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and everything changed.
4. Captivated by You by Sylvia Day
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Gideon calls me his angel, but he’s the miracle in my life. My gorgeous, wounded warrior, so determined to slay my demons while refusing to face his own. The vows we’d exchanged should have bound us tighter than blood and flesh. Instead they opened old wounds, exposed pain and insecurities, and lured bitter enemies out of the shadows.
5. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.
6. Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week at a new school in LA. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help? In a leap of faith—or an act of complete desperation—Jessie begins to rely on SN, and SN quickly becomes her lifeline and closest ally. Jessie can’t help wanting to meet SN in person. But are some mysteries better left unsolved?
7. A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah
Rating: 2/5 stars
Synopsis: You've left the city for a fresh start. But soon after the move, your daughter starts to withdraw, because her new best friend, George, is unfairly expelled from school. You beg the principal to reconsider, only to be told that George hasn't been expelled. Because there is, and was, no George. Who is lying? Who is real? Who is in danger? Who is in control? As you search for answers, the anonymous calls begin - a stranger who insists that you and she share a traumatic past and a guilty secret. And then the caller threatens your life...
8. How to Quit Your Crush by Amy Fellner Dominy
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Mai Senn knows Anthony Adams is no good for her - no matter how hard she might crush on him. She’s valedictorian; he’s a surf bum. She’s got plans, he’s got his art. Complete opposites in every way. Vinegar and baking soda, they once joked. A chemical reaction that bubbled. Yeah, they bubbled. Maybe still do. Good thing Anthony’s got the perfect plan: two weeks to prove just how not good they are together. Whoever can come up with the worst date—something the other will seriously hate, proving how incompatible they truly are—wins.
10. Helen of Troy by Margaret George
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: A lush, seductive novel of the legendary beauty whose face launched a thousand ship. Daughter of a god, wife of a king, prize of antiquity's bloodiest war, Helen of Troy has inspired artists for millennia. Now, Margaret George, the highly acclaimed bestselling historical novelist, has turned her intelligent, perceptive eye to the myth that is Helen of Troy.
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