Books I Am Reading This Week plus Weekly Book Haul – August 2, 2023 #wwwwednesday #ReadersCommunity #BookTwitter #BookLover
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I thought The Weekend Trip by Joanna Bolouri looked really cute and funny, so I agreed to the blog tour by Bookouture. I will be starting it today and I also noticed it is supposed to be available on Kindle Unlimited when it comes out next Monday.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Pages: 300 pages
Publisher: Bookouture
Publication Date: August 7, 2023
Five old friends. Two new partners. One big problem…
In Erin’s beachfront home in Ireland, I blink at my former best friends and laugh. Is it awkward we haven’t seen each other in ten years and nobody really knows why? Yes. So I pull out the champagne with a flourish and start blasting our old playlist. It’s a reunion weekend, after all…
But it’s not long before my determination to have fun starts to fizzle. Perhaps inviting new partners was a mistake. I’m already exhausted by Becky’s new girlfriend, and Beth’s husband is trying too hard with the compliments. No, I’m not trying out a “cool silver highlights” look. It’s a grey hair.
Still, at least the others have partners. The most exciting romantic development I can report is a quick flirt with a handsome stranger on the plane over.
Even flighty, non-committal Tara is bringing someone. But if that wasn’t surprising enough, I could never have anticipated Tara’s ‘someone’ would be the man from my flight.
If things weren’t already awkward, they certainly are now…
The weekend was meant to finally bring us all back together. But will this reunion only push us further apart?
A hilarious and uplifting page-turner about the power (and pitfalls) of friendship and romance. Fans of rom-coms by Sophie Kinsella, Marian Keyes and Mhairi McFarlane will devour this laugh-out-loud tale.
Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen is such a smart psychological thriller (or more suspense really). I loved that it’s such a fast read and so compelling.
Genre: Psychological Thriller /Suspense
Pages: 337 pages
Publisher: Minotaur (SMP)
Publication Date: August 1, 2023
Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it’s been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin a new career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening.
Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter. Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother’s past or background. But when Ruth’s desperate quest to keep her daughter by her side begins to reveal cracks in Ruth’s carefully-constructed world, both mother and daughter begin a dance of deception.
I am looking forward to Medusa’s Sisters by Lauren Bear – a reimagining of the Medusa myth. I don’t think I’ve ever heard her tale told as a story – just more as an aside, so I’m very curious.
Genre: Mythology (Fantasy)
Pages: 372 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: August 8, 2023
A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her.
The end of the story is only the beginning…
Even before they were transformed into Gorgons, Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale were unique among their immortal family. Curious about mortals and their lives, Medusa and her sisters entered the human world in search of a place to belong, yet quickly found themselves at the perilous center of a dangerous Olympian rivalry and learned—too late—that a god’s love is a violent one.
Forgotten by history and diminished by poets, the other two Gorgons have never been more than horrifying hags, damned and doomed. But they were sisters first, and their journey from lowly sea-born origins to the outskirts of the pantheon is a journey that rests, hidden, underneath their scales.
Monsters, but not monstrous, Stheno and Euryale will step into the light for the first time to tell the story of how all three sisters lived and were changed by each other, as they struggle against the inherent conflict between sisterhood and individuality, myth and truth, vengeance and peace.
The last three books: The Traveling Cat Chronicles, The Princess, and Harlem After Midnight are all physical books I received from Berkley at the beginning of the week. The first four are all on NetGalley and I received the widgets over the last week.
Medusa’s Sisters sounds interesting. I haven’t read anything that features Medusa or her family. I also received Harlem After Midnight widget. I hope we both enjoy it.
Ooh Gone Tonight sounds really good, I’m going to add that to my wish list now! I hope you enjoy The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels – I found it so hard to put down! Happy reading 🙂
Gone Tonight seemed so ordinary until it wasn’t, it made the book so fun. I pre-ordered Medusa’s Sisters so I’m really looking forward to your thoughts on that one. You have so many good books in your post today!
I am reading a book about a woman, whose son is a drug addict. He also has special needs. A thirteen year old daughter, who wants to help, but is now texting someone, who tells her she knew her dad. He was killed by unknown youths when trying to find his son. We don’t know if the son is involved (I hope he isn’t) and a young son. She is working three jobs, and still can’t make ends meet. She is in charge of a home, looking after ex prisoners. If that isn’t enough she is losing her home and the landlord says she can move, but only to the estate where here husband was killed. It is really good, and I am loving the main character. I will definitely post a review of this book, but I am only half way through the book.
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22 responses to “Books I Am Reading This Week plus Weekly Book Haul – August 2, 2023 #wwwwednesday #ReadersCommunity #BookTwitter #BookLover”
I like the look of the weekend trip & gone tonight, they seem like my kind of reads, hope you enjoy them all 💕
Gone Tonight is good – my review will be posted tomorrow, and I just started The Weekend Trip but I like it so far.
Medusa’s Sisters by Lauren Bear does look good and I’m excited you’re going to be reading The Mysterious Case of The Alperton Angels,loved that one! 😀
I’m glad to be reminded that you loved Alperton Angels so much. I’m looking forward to reading it!
Medusa’s Sisters sounds interesting. I haven’t read anything that features Medusa or her family. I also received Harlem After Midnight widget. I hope we both enjoy it.
I’m really curious about Medusa’s story or at least this author’s interpretation of it.
Ooh Gone Tonight sounds really good, I’m going to add that to my wish list now! I hope you enjoy The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels – I found it so hard to put down! Happy reading 🙂
I’ve heard such good things about Alperton Angels. I’m looking forward to it.
Gone Tonight seemed so ordinary until it wasn’t, it made the book so fun. I pre-ordered Medusa’s Sisters so I’m really looking forward to your thoughts on that one. You have so many good books in your post today!
That is such a good way to put it – so ordinary until it wasn’t. That’s so true!
Now that I think about it, I’ve also never heard Medusa’s story. I’ll be looking for your review on that one, Tessa.
I’m really curious to learn more about Medusa’s.
I don’t know much about Medusa but it sounds like a good story!
I don’t either. I can’t wait to find out her story. Or the author’s version at any rate.
Nice haul, Tessa💜 I got Gone Tonight yesterday!!!
I hear the audio is a bit challenging because the same person does both the mom and daughter but I hope you don’t find that impacts it too much!
Thanks for the heads up!
I am reading a book about a woman, whose son is a drug addict. He also has special needs. A thirteen year old daughter, who wants to help, but is now texting someone, who tells her she knew her dad. He was killed by unknown youths when trying to find his son. We don’t know if the son is involved (I hope he isn’t) and a young son. She is working three jobs, and still can’t make ends meet. She is in charge of a home, looking after ex prisoners. If that isn’t enough she is losing her home and the landlord says she can move, but only to the estate where here husband was killed. It is really good, and I am loving the main character. I will definitely post a review of this book, but I am only half way through the book.
I look forward to your review!
Hope you love Medusas Sisters, I’ve had my eye on that too!
It sounds so interesting!
Hi Tessa, all the best with the blog tour and all those new books. I am currently enjoying a re-read of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. Here is my WWW post: https://thebookwormchronicles.wordpress.com/2023/08/02/%f0%9f%93%9a-what-i-have-been-reading-july-2023-wwwwednesday/ 🙂
Love & Blessings, Jessica 💌