- Anxious People

Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

I spent two days thinking how to write a review for this book. I still don’t know how to write what I felt reading this book.

This book made me laugh and cry at simultaneously. It was heartbreaking, and funny at the same time. Here are the adjectives that comes to my mind for this book: entertaining, humorous captivating, but it was also challenging, complicated, impressive, misleading, enlightening and profound.

This story is about an unsuccessful bank robbery and hostage tragedy. One thing that made this book interesting was the fact that Beckman artistically created the most unlike and different people together.

The plot is absolutely brilliant, all characters are perfectly developed, and they are unbelievably real. Beckman crafted the story and the characters, the plot and detail intelligently.

Many thanks to Atria Books for this amazing copy.

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- A Good Stranger

The Good Stranger

by Dete Meserve

I’m a strong believer that everything happens for a reason in life, in the same breath I also believe that Karma 

Kate Bradly who is a TV reporter, has recently arrived in Manhattan to start her new job in a national TV. This is the time when she gets to know about anonymous generosity going around town and she partners up with her Co- Host to find out who these anonymous people are. 

This is a well-crafted and uplifting story, that’s focusing on giving and caring without expecting anything in return. The author has described Manhattan and media outlet environment vividly. I found the main character Kate Bradley a very amiable

and sweet person, her role in this story was flawlessly developed. This is a book of hope and I think it’s the best time to read it as we are all going through difficult times. We all need hope and kindness during this difficult time and The Good Stranger fulfill these needs in an elegant way.

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Splitting Heirs

Splitting Heirs 

by Diane Michaels

The story is set in New York, we get to know Lauren who is telling us the story of her life and the problems she has with her family. 

Laurens family inherit their wealthy Aunt Donna’s fortune, and this reveals that everyone in the family care more about money than anything else. The story is about normal good people and how the possibility of getting rich changes them and can turn them into dark people and brings out their worst.

The book can be comic since the Author has a great skill to describe the situations in a funny way, but the true story sounded really tragic for me.

The story was well crafted, the characters were fully developed, and what I really enjoyed was the Authors way of twisting the situation and making it funny.

It was a fast paced, funny and a feel good story.

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- The Perfect Couple

The Perfect Couple

by Jackie Kabler

The story is about Gemma and Dany who are the main two characters of this story. They are a perfect couple who has recently relocated to their new home because of Dannys job., only for Gemma to come home one day and finds out that Danny was missing.

There is a serial killer on the loose in Bristol who is targeting men that look like Danny.

But there is something very unusually about Danny that Gemma has never notice. There is no trace of Danny in her life and no one has heard from him in weeks…

This book sounded like a remarkably interesting and twisted thriller based on its blurb. But it wasn’t really the thriller and suspense story that I expected it to be.at the same breath there were moments that I found the plot very smart yet it wasn’t the suspense that I was expecting it to be.

I liked that the story was alternating between Gemma and the police. Yet the twists were very predictable and tedious at times. And the ending was not really what I expected, it left me lost and confused.

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- The Safe Place

The Safe Place

by Anna Downes 

The story is being told from three different perspective, Emily’s, Scott’s (Emily’s Boss) and Nina’s (Scott’s wife).

Emily who is in her twenties and has a challenging relationship with her parents. She is chatty, immature and like others in her age she is making wrong decisions in her life that makes her suffer.

It is difficult a time of Emily’s life right now, she was let go of her job as a receptionist, has no income, her rent is behind, and the landlord is going to evict her very soon.  This is when Scott offers her a job as a housekeeper of his huge home in France. She meets Nina at the mansion and befriends her, while she is also jealous of Nina because of her own crush on Scott.

The Safe Place was an entertaining fast read. I like books with alternating points of view. The plot was mostly predictable. The characters had room to be more developed. I really like the details about the beautiful mansion, the mysterious caretaker Nina and Scott with their own extraordinary characteristics. 

The ending was very predictable, and I felt the story was unfinished. And left the reader with so many unanswered questions. At the same time, it is well worth reading. I give this book 3.5 star and round it up to 4.0. can’t wait to read more books from this author.

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- The Haunting of Hattie Hastings

The Haunting of Hattie Hastings

(The Haunting of Hattie Hastings #1)

by Audrey Davis

Hattie Hating is a happy average woman, married to Gary who is currently unemployed or better say on a break, they have their son Johnny who has recently quit his university, claiming it has strangling his creativity.

On a night, Hattie comes home, walks to the kitchen, and sees a huge mess created by Johnny, talking to herself she tries to clean the remaining of the disaster her son made in there. Gary walks in and offer to help and take out the bin and ask her to go to bed. Hattie is brushing her teeth and looking at her tired face in the mirror thinking her life could be worst. She loves her husband and her son. Her mum, her brother and Cat, her best friend are all there for her to rely on so life is good, she is thinking. Then suddenly she hears a very loud noise and next thing she knew; she was at the hospital weeping over her dead husband. this is when her life is changed forever. 

That night Gary was killed in an accident outside their house, but he doesn’t want to go, and he comes back to haunt Hattie. He seems to show up at the worst and most inappropriate times to haunt her.it is as if before Hattie can cope with his death , he is back and she doesn’t know how to let Johnny, her family and Cat know about it.

This is Audrey Davis’s book one of the series. Reading this book, I was constantly alternating between tears of sadness and joy. I enjoyed Hattie and Cat’s friendship very much. I liked that the story was told by different narrators (Cat, Hattie, and others). A multifaceted story with a good paced to engage the reader.

This story made me laugh and cry, the characters were very well developed, and I was able to connect with them all through the book. I recommend it to those who enjoy reading about a very normal woman and all her humor and sarcasm.

Many thanks to Emily @aquintillionwords for the ARC

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