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Monday, October 14, 2019

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This month I read three books and I started on another. I am hoping to read five this next month. We shall see. These three books are great and I would recommend them.

Girls Like Us - Cristina Alger
Girls Like Us - Cristina Alger

I think it was Missy (from My Shitty Kitchen) who recommended this book and I am glad she did. Just when I thought I knew who killed the girls and why, I was thrown a complete twist. This book keeps you guessing and hoping it isn't who you think it is. And seeing the past and how it relates to the future made this book even better. I would give this book 4 1/2 stars.

Here is the synopsis:
FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was brutally murdered when Nell was just seven.

When Martin Flynn dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young women in Suffolk County. The further Nell digs, the more likely it seems to her that her father should be the prime suspect--and that his friends on the police force are covering his tracks. Plagued by doubts about her mother's murder--and her own role in exonerating her father in that case--Nell can't help but ask questions about who killed Ria Ruiz and Adriana Marques and why. But she may not like the answers she finds--not just about those she loves, but about herself.


Confess - Colleen Hoover
Confess - Colleen Hoover

I started this book towards the end of my "rental" period and I made it half way through before it was returned. I tried to extend my rental, but that didn't happen. So I waited about two weeks and I got it again and finished it in two days.

I really enjoyed this book. I liked the opening and figuring out how Auburn and Owen were connected. You don't find that out until the very end. But you do get bits and pieces as it goes. Owen is an amazing painted who has an open studio once a month. But in the meantime, he has a box outside of his studio to submit confessions. And then he takes some of those confessions and paints a piece for them. Then he displays the painting with the confession next to it. All anonymously.

Auburn ends up working for him on his open house night and Owen knows he knows her. And then it just unravels from there. I really enjoyed this book. Like a lot. It is different from other Colleen Hoover books and I am ok with it. I would give this between 4 1/2 and 5 stars.

Here is the synopsis of the book:
At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight and there is no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry.

For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping a major secret from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it.

To save their relationship, all Owen needs to do is confess. But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin.


The Bankers Wife - Cristina Alger
The Bankers Wife - Cristina Alger

Missy recommended this book to me and I knew I had to read it. I was a bit confused at first because you go back and forth between characters, but I caught on pretty quickly. Matthew and Annabel moved to Switzerland for Matthew's banking job with Swiss United. Matthew dies in a plane crash on his way home from London with another woman on the plane. All sorts of things go through your head like an affair or how another book I recently read went down. But things start to unravel and you are wanting to know what went down. It also makes you think about how something like this has probably happened before. 

The story also focuses on a journalist named Marina and how she is trying to uncover what happened to Matthew and if the banks dealings are really good in nature.

I really enjoyed this book and would give it 5 stars.

Here is the synopsis:
On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, a banking insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, including an encrypted laptop and a shady client list. As she begins a desperate search for answers, she determines that Matthew's death was no accident, and that she is now in the crosshairs of his powerful enemies.

Meanwhile, ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has finally landed at the top. Now that she's engaged to Grant Ellis, she will stop writing about powerful families and finally be a part of one. Her entry into the upper echelons of New York's social scene is more appealing than any article could ever be, but, after the death of her mentor, she agrees to dig into one more story. While looking into Swiss United, Marina uncovers information that implicates some of the most powerful men in the financial world, including a few who are too close to home. The story could also be the answer to Annabel's heartbreaking search--if Marina chooses to publish it.

The Banker's Wife is both a high-stakes thriller and an inside look at the personal lives in the intriguing world of finance, introducing Cristina Alger as a powerful new voice in the genre.

18 comments :

  1. Girls Like Us sounds like my kind of read!

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  2. I need to check out Girls Like Us - love a good twist <3

    Green Fashionista

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  3. I read so much this summer and then I just stopped. I"ve been trying to read the same book for months now and I just can't get into it. Guess I need to find something new! These all sound interesting!

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  4. I LOVED Confess, so good! Girls Like Us sounds like something I would like, adding it to my list!

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    1. They are both good. I need a new Colleen Hoover book to read.

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  5. These all look great! I haven't had a chance to read any Colleen Hover yet..

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  6. The Bankers Wife is a new one I've not heard of - but love a good 5 star review!

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    1. It was really good. I had heard about it from Missy and it was worth the read for sure!

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  7. Wow these all look interesting! Again, just more to add to my TBR pile, which is growing by the minute. ;)

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