Outside it's in the single digits. Inside, it's warm and cozy.
Indoor winter reading:
by Tamara Lush
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
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Publication: April 11, 2023; Scribner, NetgalleyGenre: thriller, suspenseA 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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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!
Memes: The Sunday Post hosted by The Caffeinated Bookreviewer. Also, It's Monday: What Are You Reading, and Sunday Salon, Stacking the Shelves, Mailbox Monday |
