Rating: 3.5/5 Stars
This is a memoir and it took me to the end of the book. Anyway, this navigates finding your sexuality, managing going through a divorce, and commentary on taking meds for mental illness, BLM, and LGBTQ.
I found this to be a bit dry and it bounced around a lot in the beginning and I was very confused. I really liked the commentary on BLM, LGBTQ, and taking meds for mental illness. I totally related to taking meds for mental illnesses and therapy. This was not a terrible memoir, but thought provoking and I liked that towards the end of the book. I can say I usually don’t like memoirs and try to stay away from them.

August never feels like she has belonged and feels lost. She tends to move city to city, college to college while collecting a lot of student loan debt. After trying the last place, she moves to New York thinking it might fit her. She moves into an apartment with three eccentric people. She even becomes a waitress. However, the biggest thing to happen to her is riding the Q line on the subway. She sees this girl who is gorgeous and mysterious. August spills coffee on herself and Subway Girl gives her a red scarf. Ever since then, August cannot forget about her. Subway Girl is always on the Q line whenever she is on and she finds out her name is Jane. Yet, things start to not make sense about Jane and August finds out that Jane has been stuck on the Q line since the ‘70s and wants to help Jane remember herself and get off the Q line. Will they remain friends or will sparks fly even though Jane could be going back to her time?
Okay, I didn’t like Red, White & Royal Blue and I even DNFed it. So, when it came to this book I felt meh about it and thought I may not like it, but I saw a ton of buzz on it, so I requested it from Netgalley. This definitely blew my expectations out of the water. I loved the friendship, unity, and finding yourself themes in this book. Plus, August and Jane are just cute. I laughed a lot and loved every minute of reading this. If you want a good romance, pick this up.

Ryland Grace used to be renown scientist, but ended up becoming a teacher. One day there is a sample from Venus that shows life form and Ryland is approached by a lady named Stratt. Stratt asks Ryland to examine the samples and Ryland names them Astrophage, which is being found on the sun and is causing problems that will leave the earth in famine and in an ice age in approximately 30 years. Fast forward a few years later and Ryland finds himself on the Hail Mary. He can’t remember who he is, where he is, and what he is supposed to do. He does notices his travel companions have died and he is the only one to survive. Ryland realizes he is the only guy who can save Earth. This is told in flashbacks and present time for Ryland.
This book has a lot of science and math in it and it is really interesting, but at times it does feel like overkill. I do like all the experiments Ryland does. I really, really loved Rocky and just loved the interactions between Rocky and Ryland. The flashbacks were interesting and the twist that we get is just crazy. I really recommend picking this book up, it lives up to the hype.

Poppy and Alex are inseparable and always have to take a summer trip together. It’s the highlight of their year. They first met at college and were very different, but somehow they became the best of friends. They haven’t really spoken in two years after the incident that happened two summers ago. Poppy feels stuck in a rut and needs something to make her happy and she always remembers that she was happiest with Alex on vacation. So, she reaches out to him and invites him on a summer trip and he agrees. Can Poppy make everything right again? This book is told in the point of views of “This Summer” and previous summer vacations.
First of all, I want to preface I got Beach Read from Book of the Month last year and had high hopes for it and didn’t like it all. When I saw this as an add on for Book of the Month I decided to pass because of my feelings on Beach Read, but I decided to check it out from the library. As you can see from my rating I loved this book. I didn’t have high expectations for this, but this is the romance I love in books. It’s a slow burn and starts out as a friendship. It’s fresh and beautiful. I went through a lot of feels. I was rooting for them to fix their friendship and later on rooting for them to finally get it on. This was a book I definitely needed. I highly recommend this book!

Zahru has been wanting to get out of the kingdom. The Crossing is invoked, which is where the three heirs race a cross a desert and the first heir to cross it and kill the human sacrifice will ascend the throne. Zahru sneaks into the palace and finds two heirs fighting and ends up being forced to be a human sacrifice. She hopes she can find a way to survive.
I really like how unique this story was when being told. I loved the romance and how badass Zahru was. I really enjoyed learning about the kingdom.

Sir Phillip’s wife, Marina dies and leaves him with his eight year old twins. He feels like he is a terrible father to his hellion children. He feels like after the mourning period he must find a wife to be a mother to his children. He doesn’t care if the woman is ugly, he just wants a wife who is happy and that will mother his children. Eloise sends a condolence letter Sir Phillip and from there the two correspond for a year. After a year, Sir Phillip writes that he would like to marry Eloise and that they should meet at his estate with a chaperone. Well, Eloise gets a bit lost with Penelope’s marriage, so she takes off to Sir Phillip’s estate with no warning. Will people find her? Will the two suit?
This was a good book. I’ve been really enjoying the Bridgerton series and thankfully I can binge the last three books after this since they finally came in from the library. I liked the children, Phillip, and Eloise. I did get a bit annoyed that Phillip only wanted Eloise to be a mother.

DNF at page 144.
Maybell hates her job and is always working in housekeeping. She’s been catfished and still is friends with the person who catfished her and she is always daydreaming of the guy. Maybell finds out she inherits her great-aunts estate. She quits her job and moves out and goes to the estate. While there she meets the grumpy groundskeeper and he is the guy in the pictures that were used to catfish her with. So, she can’t differentiate between Jack and Wesley. Wesley keeps to himself and is very grumpy. He wants to turn the place in an animal sanctuary and Maybell wants to make it back into a hotel.
Okay, I loved, loved, loved You Deserve Each Other. I couldn’t wait to pick up this book. Well, it was a disappointment. Maybell is very annoying and immature. She has her head stuck in the clouds and is always daydreaming in her alternative universe. There is really no mourning by the characters. They don’t interact with each other and when they do there is absolutely no chemistry. I found there to be no funny parts. I would skip this book.

Livia never had a wedding that she has wanted, so for her 40th birthday she throws a huge bash. Adam plans to have Marnie to fly from Hong Kong to surprise her mother for the birthday. However, to not spoil her, Adam makes Marnie takes three connecting flights instead of a direct flight. However, the day of the bash, Adam sees a flight from Cairo crashes and kills everyone and Marnie may or may not been on the flight. Livia finds out a secret about Marnie. Adam and Livia both hold their secrets from one another.
I thought the suspense was good. However, I felt like it was very anticlimactic and a disappointing ending. I find this to be forgettable.

Lena’s twin sister Cambry dies by jumping off Hairpin Bridge, also known as suicide bridge. Her death is ruled as a suicide. Lena doesn’t believe her sister’s death was a suicide and that she was actually murdered. Lena drives to Montana and confronts the cop who found Crambry.
This book takes over the span of a few hours. Not much really happens. The action was mediocre. I loved No Exit, but found this to not be as great.

Janna’s brother is getting married! She has been with her dad’s house with her siblings. She cannot wait for Nuah to come. He likes someone and she believes he likes her. She’s ready to let her intentions of liking him back he known.
This was definitely a fast read for me. I enjoyed this series so far. I did like Saints & Misfits better, but this was still good. I loved the family aspect of this book and how Janna interacts with them. I did find Janna to be annoying at times. But, her growth has come along way since book two.