Reached by Ally Condie Pages : 512 Genre : YA Series : Matched, book 2 My Rating : 3/5 From Goodreads : After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything...

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The Cottage at Glass Beach by Heather Barbieri Pages : 288 Genre : Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 From the book’s jacket : Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts state history, Nora Cunningham is a picture-perfect political wife and a doting mother. But her carefully constructed life falls to pieces when she, along with the rest of the world, learns of the infidelity of her husband, Malcolm. Humiliated and...

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The Smart One by Jennifer Close Pages : 340 Genre : Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 What it’s about : Weezy’s children aren’t doing too good, it seems; her oldest daughter quit her nursing career for a managing job at J.crew, while her other daughter came back home heavy with debts after breaking off her engagement. Her son, the youngest of the kids, is still in college and acting very secretive. Even though they...

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Insurgent by Veronica Roth Pages : 525 Genre : Dystopia, YA Series : Divergent, book 2 My Rating : 3/5 From the book’s jacket : One choice can transform you–or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves–and herself–while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and...

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The Raft by S.A. Bodeen Pages : 231 Genre : Contemporary Fiction, Survival Stand alone My Rating : 2,5/5 From the back of the book : Robie is an experienced traveler. She’s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the...

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The Comfort of Lies by Randy Susan Meyers Pages : 336 Genre : Contemporary Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : 3/5 From the back of the book : Three women, three different lives filled with lies. Years ago, Tia, Caroline and Juliette all had to take some difficult decisions, choices that, unknown to them, would forever link them together. Now five years have passed, and they have to face what their lives have become : loss, treason, broken...

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I’ve never read Sex and the City. I’ve watched most of the episodes – some of them even twice (I blame insomnia). Yet I have never read the book that inspired the series. Listening to the audiobooks of  Carrie’s younger years was then a strange experience, as the only Carrie I knew was from the TV show. While there were definite differences, I enjoyed it enough to listen to both audiobooks. The Carrie Diaries by...

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The Rook by Daniel O’Malley Pages : 486 Genre : Urban Fantasy Stand Alone My Rating : 3/5 What it’s about : When Myfanwy wakes up in a London park, she has no idea who she is or what happened to her. All that she knows is that she is surrounded by dead bodies wearing gloves, and a letter in her pocket in giving her specific information on what do to next. Quickly, Myfanwy is overwhelmed with new information : she’s part of a...

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