Books I Am Reading This Week plus Weekly Book Haul – June 7, 2023 #wwwwednesday #ReadersCommunity #BookTwitter #BookLover
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Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!
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I just started You Can Trust Me by Wendy Heard. Just read that description – doesn’t it sound so perfectly a wild and crazy read? I’ve only read a few chapters, but I’m looking forward to getting more into this one!!!
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Pages: 292 pages
Publisher: Bantam
Publication Date: June 13, 2023
Summer and Leo would do anything for each other. Inspired by the way each has had to carve her place in a hostile and unforgiving world, and united by the call of the open road, they travel around sunny California in Summer’s tricked-out Land Cruiser. It’s not a glamorous life, but it gives them the freedom they crave from the painful pasts they’ve left behind. But even free spirits have bills to pay. Luckily, Summer is a skilled pickpocket, a small-time thief, and a con artist–and Leo, determined to pay her own way, has learned a trick or two.
Eager for a big score, Leo catches in her crosshairs Michael Forrester, a self-made billionaire and philanthropist. When her charm wins him over, Leo is rewarded with an invitation to his private island off the California coastline for a night of fabulous excess. She eagerly anticipates returning with photos that can be sold to the paparazzi, jewelry that can be liquidated, and endless stories to share with Summer.
Instead, Leo disappears.
On her own for the first time in years, Summer decides to infiltrate Michael’s island and find out what really happened. But when she arrives, no one has seen Leo–she’s not on the island as far as they know. Plus, there was only one way on the island–and no way off–for the coming days. Trapped in a scheme she helped initiate, could Summer have met her match?
I’ve never read an Ali Hazelwood novel, and, boy, I’ve been missing out. I absolutely adored Love, Theoretically. Such snarky dialogue and I loved it! It spotlights Type 1 diabetes, and I found the portrayal to be informative and respectful. There’s just so much to love about this story.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Pages: 400 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: June 13, 2023
Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And he’s the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job.
Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?
As a former dance mom, I jumped at the chance to read this book when Berkley sent me a promo Q&A by the author of First Position – Melanie Hamrick. How could I not? It’s set in a world I know very well but an insider’s perspective.
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Pages: 330 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: June 20, 2023
A dancer’s fall from grace ignites a dark ambition in this propulsive novel about the seductive, cutthroat world of professional ballet by debut author Melanie Hamrick.
Five years into her career at the North American Ballet, Sylvie Carter has come a long way from the girl she once was—the young, driven ballerina who dutifully kept a list of rules for how to succeed. But as her star in the company rises, every rule gets broken and she becomes a version of herself she no longer recognizes. When a tumultuous, troubling relationship erupts into a devastating scandal for which she alone is blamed, she loses everything. Her reputation is destroyed, her best friend is now her fiercest rival, and the dream she’s worked for her entire life—becoming a prima ballerina—will never be realized. She vows not to ever make the same mistake again.
But when renowned dancer Alessandro Russo joins NAB as a guest artist for the season, Sylvie is magnetically drawn to him. Torn between fear and attraction, she finds herself mentally unraveling but also artistically blossoming as she taps into emotions she’d buried long ago. Caught in a bewildering spiral, she can either let the wounds of the past destroy her or find a way to be reborn.
Only 2 books this week!!!!! I received a physical copy of The First Ladies from Berkley, and I have another physical book coming from them today, but it could be one of 5 possibilities, so 🤷🏻♀️. Bye Baby doesn’t come out until next year, and it came to me through a NetGalley widget from St. Martin’s Press.
You Can Trust Me definitely sounds like a wild summer read, I hope you continue to enjoy it. I’ll look out for your review but I’m already tempted to get a copy of this one! Happy reading 🙂 x
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21 responses to “Books I Am Reading This Week plus Weekly Book Haul – June 7, 2023 #wwwwednesday #ReadersCommunity #BookTwitter #BookLover”
I love the look of You Can Trust Me, hope you enjoy all of your reads 😊
It’s very good so far!
Nice reviews.
❤️❤️❤️
Looking forward to your reviews!
Thank you!
Great book mail! I hope you enjoy your current read.
So far it is excellent!
Yeah, after reading the description for You Can Trust Me, I want so much more. And thanks for he heads up for Bye, Baby, too, Tessa💜
It’s very good so far!
You Can Trust Me definitely sounds like a wild summer read, I hope you continue to enjoy it. I’ll look out for your review but I’m already tempted to get a copy of this one! Happy reading 🙂 x
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It’s excellent so far!
I adore Ali Hazelwood! I finished Love Theoretically on the weekend and loved it!
ME TOO!!!! 💕. So good!
I can’t wait to hear what you think of You Can Trust Me
So far, it’s excellent!
I love Ali Hazelwood books. I can’t wait to get Love, Theoretically.
It’s very very good!
I also haven’t read a Hazelwood book, but they sure are popular in my book club. The covers are adorable. Happy Reading, Tessa!
This one was very very good! I’m a new Hazelwood fan.
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