This is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine. In this post we highlight a book that’s highly anticipated.
The book that I’m waiting on this Wednesday is If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich. The expected publication date is September 15, 2021.
Goodreads Synopsis:
Eighteen-year-olds Ruben Montez and Zach Knight are two members of the boy-band Saturday, one of the biggest acts in America. Along with their bandmates, Angel Phan and Jon Braxton, the four are teen heartbreakers in front of the cameras and best friends backstage. But privately, cracks are starting to form: their once-easy rapport is straining under the pressures of fame, and Ruben confides in Zach that he’s feeling smothered by management’s pressure to stay in the closet.
On a whirlwind tour through Europe, with both an unrelenting schedule and minimal supervision, Ruben and Zach come to rely on each other more and more, and their already close friendship evolves into a romance. But when they decide they’re ready to tell their fans and live freely, Zach and Ruben start to truly realize that they will never have the support of their management. How can they hold tight to each other when the whole world seems to want to come between them?
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and it is now hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s theme is Books I Would Hand to Someone Who Claims to Not Like Reading. Here’s my list:
1. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
2. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
3. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
4. Dear Martin by Nic Stone
5. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
6. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
7. Take It Away, Tommy by Georgia Dunn
8. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
9. Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
10. Fangs by Sarah Andersen
(All book covers from Goodreads)
What’s your list of books on your Top Ten Tuesday?
Title: Sawkill Girls Author: Claire Legrand Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Source: Library Format: Ebook Release Date: October 2, 2018 Rating: ★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep.
Who are the Sawkill Girls?
Marion: the new girl. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she’s sure she’ll never find.
Zoey: the pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she’s broken—or maybe everyone else is.
Val: the queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives, a heart made of secrets and a mouth full of lies.
Their stories come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where gleaming horses graze in rolling pastures and cold waves crash against black cliffs. Where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and around campfires.
Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight… until now.
Review:
Zoey has lived in Sawkill with her father, the police chief, for a couple of years. Marion has just moved there, when she has an accident and falls off a horse. Val, a popular girl who Zoey has never trusted, helps Marion recover. Girls have disappeared from Sawkill for decades, without a trace. Zoey’s best friend disappeared after becoming friends with Val, so Zoey thinks that Val is involved in the disappearances. When more girls disappear, and Zoey starts finding strange things around her house, she decides that she must end this cycle of missing girls.
This story followed the points of view of Zoey, Val, and Marion. Zoey was fairly new to the town, only moving there a couple of years before. Marion was a newcomer to the town, but Val’s family had lived there for generations. The town itself was a character as well, with an extensive history.
The story started out as a horror/thriller, with girls going missing. The last half of the story turned more science fiction and fantasy. I didn’t like this twist in the story, because it didn’t seem realistic. At first, it was creepy because it seemed like something that could happen in a small town. I was disappointed in this second half and the ending of the story, because it wasn’t what I expected.
Unfortunately, Sawkill Girls didn’t live up to my expectations.
What to read next:
The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain
Have you read Sawkill Girls? What did you think of it?
This blog meme is hosted by Book Date. It is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever growing TBR pile!
What I just finished:
This weekend I finished Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand.
What I’m currently reading:
I’m currently reading You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith.
What I’m reading next:
Next I will be reading All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue.
What are you guys reading this week? Have you read any of these books?
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