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Small town, suburban moms behaving badly - very badly!
This book was sinfully fun! We have the kind of rich, bored, self-centered, mean girl housewives you just love to hate. When Sophie gets invited to join the clique of wives for their Friday night “hunting” - I was not prepared for the type of hunting they did or just how reckless these women were willing to get for a good time.
Their shenanigans start to go awry when a body is found on the property where their hold their hunting club meetings. Things got juicy and I was all in as the friend drama builds and some of the women seem to be making more and more over the top, “questionable” choices. Reading this book is like being in on the kind of salacious gossip that you can’t stop listening to. These women were conniving, selfish and scandalous. Definitely not the type of friends I’d want to have in my life unless you live by the old adage to “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”!
This book was sinfully fun! We have the kind of rich, bored, self-centered, mean girl housewives you just love to hate. When Sophie gets invited to join the clique of wives for their Friday night “hunting” - I was not prepared for the type of hunting they did or just how reckless these women were willing to get for a good time.
Their shenanigans start to go awry when a body is found on the property where their hold their hunting club meetings. Things got juicy and I was all in as the friend drama builds and some of the women seem to be making more and more over the top, “questionable” choices. Reading this book is like being in on the kind of salacious gossip that you can’t stop listening to. These women were conniving, selfish and scandalous. Definitely not the type of friends I’d want to have in my life unless you live by the old adage to “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”!
Why have I taken so long to read Chanel Cleeton? I am not a huge historical fiction reader but I enjoy it from time to time, especially if it features strong female characters like in The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba. This was told via multiple perspectives, all adding to the overall story. And what a story it was!
Evangelina Cisneros is thrown in jail as a rebel during the Cuban War on Independence. She is dubbed "The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba" by the press. Telling the tale of her imprisonment helps raise awareness of the truth of what is happening in Cuba.
Grace Harrington is a young female reporter who lands a job at William Randolph Hearst's newspaper in 1896. She becomes more and more aware of the realities of the war in Cuba and wants to write about the women who often go unseen and unheard.
Maria Perez is a young Cuban woman who gave up her life of privilege and was renounced by her family when she married a poor man for love. Trying to make ends meet while she cares for her daughter and mother-in-law, she becomes a secret courier for the Cuban Revolutionaries in Havana.
We follow these three women's stories, each showing bravery, strength, love and compassion in her own way. I love that this was based on the real Cuban heroine. What an extraordinary woman and life! I thoroughly appreciate reading a work of historical fiction like this that can not only entertain but educate. Cleeton has a gift for story-telling that simply sweeps you away. I listened to this one audio and easily lost myself in the tumultuous time period for hours on end. I must read her previous works soon.
Evangelina Cisneros is thrown in jail as a rebel during the Cuban War on Independence. She is dubbed "The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba" by the press. Telling the tale of her imprisonment helps raise awareness of the truth of what is happening in Cuba.
Grace Harrington is a young female reporter who lands a job at William Randolph Hearst's newspaper in 1896. She becomes more and more aware of the realities of the war in Cuba and wants to write about the women who often go unseen and unheard.
Maria Perez is a young Cuban woman who gave up her life of privilege and was renounced by her family when she married a poor man for love. Trying to make ends meet while she cares for her daughter and mother-in-law, she becomes a secret courier for the Cuban Revolutionaries in Havana.
We follow these three women's stories, each showing bravery, strength, love and compassion in her own way. I love that this was based on the real Cuban heroine. What an extraordinary woman and life! I thoroughly appreciate reading a work of historical fiction like this that can not only entertain but educate. Cleeton has a gift for story-telling that simply sweeps you away. I listened to this one audio and easily lost myself in the tumultuous time period for hours on end. I must read her previous works soon.
2.5 ⭐️
I typically enjoy murder mysteries set in private/boarding schools but I struggled with this one. It felt too slow, drawn out and just fell flat. I struggled with the pacing and even listening on audio, it felt like it took forever to read this one. I was just left feeling disappointed by this lackluster read.
I typically enjoy murder mysteries set in private/boarding schools but I struggled with this one. It felt too slow, drawn out and just fell flat. I struggled with the pacing and even listening on audio, it felt like it took forever to read this one. I was just left feeling disappointed by this lackluster read.
Ahhh, this book! Red, White & Royal Blue was one of my top reads of 2019 so I had high expectations going into One Last Stop and I am ecstatic to say that Casey McQuiston delivered! I loved this book. I was all in with this queer, biracial, alternate reality romance!!!!
This book had amazing characters (can we get more of Niko, Myla and Wes please), great banter, wit and of course some steamy romance. I love when a book's characters have so much strength that even the side characters win your heart. Plus, we had some great one liners and so much angsty yearning.
It also bears mentioning that McQuiston weaves in such important topics as racism, homophobia, HIV and AIDS and some key events and activism that helped pave the way for the LGBTQ+ community today.
The book starts a bit slow but stick with it, it pays off big time by the end. This one is perfect to add to your Pride month TBR (or anytime of the year really).
This book had amazing characters (can we get more of Niko, Myla and Wes please), great banter, wit and of course some steamy romance. I love when a book's characters have so much strength that even the side characters win your heart. Plus, we had some great one liners and so much angsty yearning.
It also bears mentioning that McQuiston weaves in such important topics as racism, homophobia, HIV and AIDS and some key events and activism that helped pave the way for the LGBTQ+ community today.
The book starts a bit slow but stick with it, it pays off big time by the end. This one is perfect to add to your Pride month TBR (or anytime of the year really).
A sweet & angsty, will they/won’t they, friends to lovers story that left me in tears!
Emily Henry does it again. Beach Read was one of my top reads of 2020 so I was excited but also really nervous to read People We Meet on Vacation. I can honestly say that for me, lightning has struck twice!
I loved this book so much. It left me in tears. Shall I paint a picture of how much I loved Alex and Poppy? The last 50 pages or so had me blubbering to myself and by the end I was hugging the book with a tear streaked face at 11:30pm when I should have been asleep. I didn’t want it to be over!
Emily Henry knows how to make you feel personally invested in her characters. I was all in with these two, like I actually knew them.
Emily Henry does it again. Beach Read was one of my top reads of 2020 so I was excited but also really nervous to read People We Meet on Vacation. I can honestly say that for me, lightning has struck twice!
I loved this book so much. It left me in tears. Shall I paint a picture of how much I loved Alex and Poppy? The last 50 pages or so had me blubbering to myself and by the end I was hugging the book with a tear streaked face at 11:30pm when I should have been asleep. I didn’t want it to be over!
Emily Henry knows how to make you feel personally invested in her characters. I was all in with these two, like I actually knew them.
