Recent Reads October 2021
The Cuban Affair - Nelson DeMille
This was a “party favor” after my last book club meeting; the host had some books she said we could choose from/take, and this was my pick! I wasn’t really sure where this was going when I started reading it, but the mystery behind it kept me turning the page. Unfortunately for a book set in a police state, there was no real action until about the last 30 pages of the book. I was waiting for something to happen the whole time, and it was just a lot of disappointment.
Murder at the Book Club - Betsy Reavley
This was our book club pick for the month; we thought it was a pretty cheeky read for us! Unfortunately, I listened to this on audiobook, and there was just WAY too much going on for me to really enjoy it. I felt that there was not enough character development because there were SO many characters involved. In our discussion at book club, we wondered if maybe this was to keep up the mystery, but it just made things so confusing. I wasn’t really invested in any of the characters at all, and honestly, it sounded like the worst book club ever.
Last Girl Ghosted - Lisa Unger
This was recommended to me through the Hoopla app, and I really enjoyed it! This thriller follows Wren Greenwood, a self-help guru who, at the encouragement of her best friend, joins a dating app to find love for herself. She does find love, or so she thinks, when she meets Adam Harper. All is going well, and then he just disappears; his phone his disconnected, social media gone, poof. In her attempts to find him and find what happened, Wren has to take a trip into her own past which she has tried so hard to forget. This one is a real page turner!
The Weight of Air - David Poses
This memoir has been on my to-read list for quite some time now, and I am happy that I finally got around to reading it. Poses writes so honestly about his struggle with depression and opioid addiction, from bouts of sobriety to falling back off the wagon. He talks about how easy it was for him to hide his addiction from those around him and how he was able to justify it to himself. This is a really eye-opening and interesting read.
Confessions on the 7:45 - Lisa Unger
Clearly my library app likes to suggest thrillers to me! This story starts off with Selena Murphy on her train home from work. A stranger sits down next to her and confesses that she is having an affair with her boss, and Selena then confesses that she thinks her husband is cheating on her with their nanny. This seems like a random encounter until Selena receives a text from the stranger (who she doesn’t remember giving her name or number to), and her nanny goes missing. There are twists and turns on every page of this story!
The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune
This was a great surprise read for me this month! This is the story of Linus Baker, a caseworker with the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. His life is ordinary, until Extremely Upper Management sends him on a classified case to Marsyas Island Orphanage where six very dangerous children are living under the supervision of Arthur Parnassus, a mysterious man indeed. This book gave me the warm fuzzies all over as Linus learns what family truly is. A book I could not put down!
