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I was lucky enough to receive this ARC from NetGalley.  The book, published by Little, Brown and Company is scheduled for release on May 21st, 2019.  It has also been chosen as a selection for Book of the Month, if the spoiler posts remain true.  This will give BOTM members early access to the book before they can pick it up in stores. This book is about Stella and Violet, lifelong best friends.  Stella comes from money, and it's obvious she's never heard of the word "consequence."  Violet has had to scrape and scratch for everything.  She often accompanies Stella home on holidays because her family is so horrible.  Stella's family seem to "adopt" her, as long as that means they can brag about her accomplishments.  After college, Violet moves to New York and begins working for a cable company while Stella travels the world on her very own drug binge.  She claws her way up from intern, only to have Stella barge in and announce that she wants to b

I received this book through NetGalley for review.  This book has a publish date of 05/01/19 by Bookouture.  It was easily one of my first books I planned on reading from NetGalley because the cover was so enticing. Synopsis (from Goodreads):    Everyone knows Leona would do anything for her daughter Beth : she moved to Church Langdon to send Beth to the best school, worked hard to build a successful business to support them and found them the perfect little cottage to call home. Leona and Beth hike together, shop together, share their hopes and fears with one another. People say they’re more like best friends than mother and daughter.  When Beth finds an envelope hidden under the floorboards of their home, the contents make her heart stop.  Everything she thought she knew about her mother is a lie. And she realizes there is no one she can turn to for help.   This book tells the story through the eyes of Leona, Beth, and Ria.  The majority of Leona's story takes place talk

This was a book I had never heard of before.  I found it on Goodreads to fulfill a Facebook Bingo Prompt.  Upon reading the description I knew my heartstrings were going to be pulled. Synopsis (from Goodreads): Obviously I’m not what most people would describe as happy. But that has nothing to do with anything. Happiness is not a priority. Survival is. Alvie Fitz doesn’t fit in, and she doesn’t care. She’s spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers.  Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal.  It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she’ll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails, she’ll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home. All she wants is to be left alone to spend time with her friend, Chance, the one-winged hawk at the zoo where she works. She can bide her time with him until her emancipation. Humans are overrated anyway. Then she meets Stanley, a boy who might be eve

There isn't a lot I can say about this book that hasn't already been said.  It's genius.  It ripped my heart out.  I laughed.  I cried.  I immediately wanted to reread this. Synopsis (From Goodreads): Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

I've read the physical copy of Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall before, but this review was based on my audio binge this past week. Synopsis (from Goodreads): For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night. However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined. Before I Fall is now a major motion picture Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley. Named to numerous state reading lists, the novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly.   If you like quick YA reads, this is a decent book.  It's a typica

I will admit that Queenie is completely out of my comfort zone.  I wasn't sure what I expected when I chose it as my Book of the Month, but I was really excited to find out. Synopsis(from Goodreads): Bridget Jones’s Diary  meets  Americanah  in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What

Deliver me by Karen Cole is my second NetGalley read for this month.  The publishing date is April 18th, 2019 and is released by Quercus Books. Synopsis (from Goodreads): THE NIGHT SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER WILL BE THE ONE SHE CAN'T FORGET When Abby's doctor tells her she's two months pregnant she doesn't believe him. She can't be - she hasn't had sex for over a year. But to her astonishment and dismay, multiple tests confirm it's true. Desperately searching for an explanation, Abby recalls New Year's Day - the terrible hangover, the hole in her memory where the night before should have been and the inexplicable sense of unease - and realizes that this baby must have been conceived at her best friend Danny's NYE party.  Horrified that someone would have taken advantage of her intoxicated state, Abby enlists the help of Danny to find out which of the party guests assaulted her. But, when she starts to receive anonymous messages, it seems tha

I obtained a copy of this book courtesy of NetGalley.  The Lonely Hearts Crime Club is scheduled to be released April 16th, 2019 by Blackbird Digital Books. Synopsis (from Goodreads): An elderly resident of an inner-city tower block is brutally attacked and left for dead. Her neighbours, a pregnant alcoholic, a vulnerable youth, a failed actress and a cameraman with a dark secret, are thrown together in their search for answers. Misfits and loners, they are forced to confront uncomfortable realities about themselves and each other, as their investigation leads them towards the shocking finale.   The cast of characters for this book were very interesting in the fact that all of them are severely flawed.  When combined they formed a group of misfits similar to those of The Breakfast Club or The Sandlot.  Each person brought something different to the "team."  The main characters are listed below Ella-pregnant, 3rd trimester, recovering alcoholic, on her own Ethan-