A while back, I started participating in this feature/club thing, as I’m going to continue calling it, that was created by Books of Amber and Paper Riot. Each month they force each other to read a certain book. The particular book is often something that the partner has recently liked, or something that they know has been on the TBR pile for a while. Sadly, my former partner Nikki decided to take a break from blogging. Now I’m partnering with Lara from The Paperback Palace!
June:
Lara and I decided to take a break for June. We both were doing a lot of traveling and it worked out best to skip a month.
July:
Lara Rec’d Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen (And I have to say that I really enjoyed it)
Peyton, Sydney’s charismatic older brother, has always been the star of the family, receiving the lion’s share of their parents’ attention and—lately—concern. When
Peyton’s increasingly reckless behavior culminates in an accident, a drunk driving conviction, and a jail sentence, Sydney is cast adrift, searching for her place in the family and the world. When everyone else is so worried about Peyton, is she the only one concerned about the victim of the accident?
Enter the Chathams, a warm, chaotic family who run a pizza parlor, play bluegrass on weekends, and pitch in to care for their mother, who has multiple sclerosis. Here Sydney experiences unquestioning acceptance. And here she meets Mac, gentle, watchful, and protective, who makes Sydney feel seen, really seen, for the first time.
I rec’d I Am the Messenger by Lara (Her review)
Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He’s pathetic at
playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his
coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.
That’s when the first ace arrives in the mail.
That’s when Ed becomes the messenger.
Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who’s behind Ed’s mission?
August:
Lara rec’d Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
It’s Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a
few other close friends are off to a debaucherous trip to Aruba that promises to be the time of their lives. But when Elise is found brutally murdered, Anna finds herself trapped in a country not her own, fighting against vile and contemptuous accusations.
As Anna sets out to find her friend’s killer; she discovers hard truths about her friendships, the slippery nature of truth, and the ache of young love.
As she awaits the judge’s decree, it becomes clear that everyone around her thinks she is not just guilty, but dangerous. When the truth comes out, it is more shocking than one could ever imagine…
I rec’d Simon vs. The Homo-Sapiens Agenda by Becky Abertalli
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the
school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.
With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.
I’m really stoked to read Dangerous Girls! I’ve been meaning to get to it for years (lol). I’m also super curious as to what Lara thinks of Simon, (because I LOVED it). Anyways, it’s been a good couple of months of Epic Recs, and I can’t wait for it to continue.
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