Dec 24, 2022

Sunday Salon: Another Rom Com and a Thriller

 Outside it's in the single digits. Inside, it's warm and cozy. 


Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays. Be grateful, mindful, and stay warm and well wherever you are. 

Indoor winter reading: 

Crash

Pub Date 24 Jan 2023 Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group, Netgalley
Genre: romance, romantic comedy, contemporary fiction

This romance uses many of the rom com tropes: a fake engagement to fool the family of the wealthy guy; a bedroom with only one bed while they are at the family mansion; a romantic love between the two fakers that it takes the entire book for them to acknowledge.

Nevertheless, the tropes work in this story, the way it's written. how the plot and main characters are developed. It was an enjoyable novel, with enough humorous moments to be labeled romantic comedy. 

My only reservations about the book: the open door sex descriptions were a bit overly graphic and descriptions could be way shortened. We got the idea in the first several paragraphs.  



The Only Survivors: A Novel

Publication: April 11, 2023; Scribner, Netgalley
Genre: thriller, suspense

A thrilling, suspense novel where a group of nine high school classmates bond as survivors of a school van crash that had sent them hurling into a raging river in the Tennessee mountains. Now in their twenties, the group continues to meet for a week every year at an isolated house, strengthening their bonds and their pledge to each other to keep the secrets of that horrific van crash that had killed 12 of their other classmates. 

After two of the group die, the rest are uneasy and don't know if they can still trust each other, suspecting that one of them might be a murderer. 

I like that the story of the crash is told in bits and pieces throughout the book and we get the full and complete story of what happened only at the end,  This way of telling the story adds to the suspense and kept me guessing. The ending was not a total surprise to me, but still a good one. 


Stay well, especially if you're in the middle of the snow bomb!

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27 comments:

  1. I'm looking forward to reading The Only Survivors — glad you thought it was good. Your tree is beautiful! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, Harvee. Stay warm!

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    1. The book was good but I had to concentrate to keep the stories and people straight.

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  2. Have a great Christmas!

    best… mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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  3. Great pic that speaks "warm and cozy". I have a different Miranda one on my TBR, but this one sounds good too. Have the merriest Christmas!
    Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
    https://www.bookshelfjourneys.com/post/sunday-post-30

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    1. This Miranda will be printed in 2023

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  4. I am definitely a person who likes the bedroom door closed. Allow me to use my imagination please, authors!

    Beautiful tree. Glad it's warm inside even though it's very cold outside!

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  5. That a pretty Charismas three.
    Merry Christmas.

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  6. Beautiful tree. I hope you had a Merry Christmas!

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  7. I've heard Crash is a fun book. I'm glad you liked it despite the tropes and the ellicitness. I hope you had a Merry Christmas!

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    1. Thanks. Crash was a fun read in spite of the tropes.

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  8. Merry Christmas!

    Wishing you a wonderful week!

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  9. Hope you had a Merry Christmas! And The Only Survivors sounds like a fun thriller. Have a great week. :D

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  10. Thank goodness for indorrs! Hope you had a wonderful and merry Christmas!

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    1. Enjoying the indoors, Greg. Warm!

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  11. Is that your tree? It's beautiful! Enjoy your week!

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  12. The Only Survivors sounds like a good one. Merry Christmas! Pretty tree!

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  13. Merry Christmas! I hope you had a wonderful day. The Only Survivors looks really good.

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