Sarah's Books:
This month I read some of the books I planned to read, and some books I didn't. I did read the ARCs that I had on my list. I also planned to read Me Before You and After You. I only read the first one, because after finishing it, I decided I needed time before I jumped into the second book. I also feel like it would be a good idea for me to read them as if they are separate stories. The rest of the month I was a mood reader. With quarantine, and moving this month I have not been as motivated, so I read books I was in the mood for. Overall, I'm happy with the books I read, and am excited to see what I get into next month!
1. The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Twelve year old Martha is a maid in a mysterious mansion with secrets that need to be hidden from the rest of 1920's high society.
2. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: Lou loses her job working in a cafe, and finds a job as a care assistant for a 35 year old quadriplegic man with a negative outlook on life.
3. Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Synopsis: Jessie's life is upended when her mother dies. Her father remarries, and she is forced to move across the country. She is enrolled in a private school in L.A. full of snobby kids, and her only lifeline is the guy that emails her anonymously to help her navigate her new life.
4. Always Never Yours by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegmund-Broka
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Megan auditions for the most minor lead in the school play in order to fulfill her acting credit. She ends up as the lead in her school's rendition of Romeo and Juliet. All the while she is known as the girl everyone dates before they find the love of their lives, but will she be able to find her Romeo?
5. The Escape Room by Megan Goldin
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Four young Wall Street up and comers are instructed to do an escape room as a team building exercise. When the escape room turns deadly their only goal is to forget their real life competition and work together to get out alive.
6. Take Me With You by Tara Altebrando
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Synopsis: When four kinds find a cube that sends them messages and give them rules to follow, they don't know what to do. When the cube threatens them with a sinister message- or else- they get sucked into the game.
7. Red White & Royal Blue by Casey Mcquiston
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: When his mother became President, Alex was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. Heads of the family and state and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: Stage a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instagrammable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined.
Shannon's Books
1. Someday in Paris by Olivia Lara
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Over the course of twenty years, Zara and Leon are destined to fall in love again and again. But will they ever find a way to be together?
2. The Cabin by Natasha Preston
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: When Mackenzie treks to a secluded cabin in the woods with six friends, she expects a fun weekend of partying, drinking, and hookups. But when they wake to find two of their own dead and covered in blood, it's clear there's a killer among them.
3. Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: When his mother became President, Alex was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. Heads of the family and state and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: Stage a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instagrammable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined.
4. The Plus One Pact by Portia MacIntosh
Rating: 3/5 stars
Synopsis: Cara has officially run out of men. Her most recent dates have gone from bad to worse, and when her dating app informs her there is no one left in her area to choose from, she is at a dead end. But with a summer of events ahead of her, she needs to find a solution, fast; someone to keep her company at the never-ending weddings, family gatherings and gender reveal parties that she can’t face going to alone.
5. One with You By Sylvia Day
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: Gideon Cross. Falling in love with him was the easiest thing I've ever done. It happened instantly. Completely. Irrevocably. Marrying him was a dream come true. Staying married to him is the fight of my life. Love transforms. Ours is both a refuge from the storm and the most violent of tempests. Two damaged souls entwined as one.
6. The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Rating: 5/5 stars
Synopsis: When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.
7. Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken
Rating: 4/5 stars
Synopsis: Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children’s League call Ruby “Leader”, but she knows what she really is: a monster. When Ruby is entrusted with an explosive secret, she must embark on her most dangerous mission yet: leaving the Children’s League behind.
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