I just couldn’t connect to Ariel or Eric as characters they just didn’t feel genuine to me 

This book is about what a person would do to keep their family happy. 
Some so many people will identify with this book because while we are following an Irish American family there are so many people in this family who feel like members of almost any family. Throughout this story, we follow the Brennan family and how each of them has been thrust into their current predicament because of an event that happened five years earlier. 
These characters are all flawed and have to deal with the lies that they have told to "keep their family safe." I thought that this book hit on a lot of topics that so many people are dealing with in today's world.
My only real dislike about this book is that the pacing was very slow for a book that is less than 300 pages it felt very long.

This is a book of short stories and I just wasn’t enjoying the retellings. 

I am a quarter of the way through and have no idea what is going on and none of the characters are interesting to me to continue. 

I love reading books about ballet! This is a beautiful story of two people one a boy who lived through the Holocaust and the other a young girl whose mother dies suddenly. 
I feel like this book was written in a way that makes the reader feel for both of these characters from the very beginning and when the perspectives start to converge it is done so that their stories still feel true to each of the characters. 
I loved reading about Katya and how she came to be a dancer. Katya believes that without dance she could not live and that is the driving force behind all of Katya's decisions throughout the book. 
John is trying to distance himself from the things that he did to survive the Holocaust and who he is becoming because of that experience. 
I loved each of these characters and how flawed they were. I will definitely be checking out more of this author's work.

This was such a fun book to pick up and I am so thankful that I get to be a part of sharing this book. 
This is the story of our MC Ruth who is a journalist but when she is out with her elderly neighbor looking for a Tupperware lid they come across a dying man. 
This story was so fun. If you are looking for a summer read with a cozy mystery I think this will be right up your alley.