Girls At The Bookstore

  Welcome to Mafia Monday      Do you ever get caught up in the fantasy of what if I met a mystery man who is the leader of the Mafia, or maybe what if I was a mafia bosses' daughter and was kidnapped and held for ransom?   What if you were the Mafia boss's daughter who was forced to marry one of your dad's cronies who is his scariest enforcer. There is no love there and one night he kidnaps a rivel mafia's boss sister and is going to force you to help torture her.   She's young and has no stake in the game so you decide you've had enough. You help the young girl escape and then run away yourself. You get trapped in Ibiza where you meet Damiano De Rossi.   Want to see where this fantasy could take you? Well then pick up When She Unravels by Gabrielle Sands . Bonus point's if you pick up the audio so you can listen to Gabriel Spires Dominican accent as he portrays Damiano.  

 We are back for another post of the new books that are coming out next month and we have our eyes on... Hopefully it might also help you find something you will like. RELEASING JUNE 2 THE HEIRS BY FARIDAH ABIKE-LYIMIDE I can't tell you what is drawing me to this book, I just thought it sounded good... Octavius  the Maestro. Fola  the Brain. Bilal  the Olympian. Perdita  the Artist. Romeo  the Failure. These are the five heirs of the illustrious billionaire Leontes Button. Adopted and viciously trained with their father’s infamous “Button Method” to prove his hypothesis for creating prodigies—child geniuses—the Button siblings have had no choice but to be brilliant according to their father's impossibly high standards. Until he is murdered at his annual Prodigy Ball. Now, all who attended the ball are required to stay in the Button Manor while the police investigate. But the officers have their work cut out for them—each of the Button siblings has something...

  I read this book as a 12 recommendations from 12 friends challenge. It is a YA book set in a fictional land and sea called the Narrows. It is about a young woman named Fable. I followed Fable as she went on dangerous missions on the wild sea, filled with pirates, greedy merchants and rogue trader ships. Fable had a secret that she had to protect, but her vivid red hair and her face marked her as the daughter of Isolde the gem sage. It's only through quick thinking, gold and gems exchanging hands in the dark alleyways, that she is able to come up top.  I enjoyed these two books that I read the novellas and companion books. It is definitely worth a read if you want to embark on a seaworthy ship.  Tropes if you are interested: Survival Against all Odds Morally Grey Characters Brooding, Loyal Love Interest Absent/Strained Father-Daughter Dynamic High Stakes Uncovering Family Secrets Pawn to Player Found Family

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are 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 your groaning TBR pile! This meme by  Kathryn at   The Book Date It has been a bit since I have been here, life is always kicking us lately, but we are attempting to kick right back. Recently my mom was put on hospice so she left her apartment and has moved in with us. Boy is it a change. She does not like having to live with us ( she is 90 ) and she isn't very pleasant because of it LOL. Anyway, we are managing, but it is something we are all having to get use to! Audio books have become my friend with all the things I am having to do, I am enjoying listening to them, BUT, I listen a lot at the end of the day, while laying in bed, and I have found myself having to rewind the entire book the next morning because I fell asleep!!!     WHAT I READ LAS...

GOODREADS SUMMARY: Maeve and Therese Dunigan are sisters—but the two have been estranged for years. They could not be more Maeve, a rule-follower and Therese, a rebel. But when their mother's death brings the family back together, the two find that they have inherited a painting—one that could be worth millions and could save each of them from their respective wolves at the door. The only issue is, the painting might be a fake and the only way the can solve the problem is to find the original. This means a road trip—to Ireland, to their family roots, and to a mysterious crime that occurred years ago. With tensions simmering, the two hit the road and find themselves on twisty lanes, in colorful villages, at local pubs, and with handsome men whose gift of the gab is surpassed only by their charm. Can Maeve and Therese find the real painting, remove a family curse, solve a cold case, and actually survive without killing each other?  TEE'S THOUGHTS Summer doesn't begin for me u...

GOOD READ SUMMARY: A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls… Penny Paxton is the daughter of an icon. Her supermodel mother has legions of adoring fans around the world, and Penny is ready to begin her journey to international adoration, starting with joining the elite Dorian Drama School. When Penny’s new mentor offers her an opportunity she cannot refuse, to have a portrait painted by a mysterious artist who can grant immortal beauty to all his subjects, Penny happily follows in the footsteps of Dorian’s most glittering alumni, knowing that stardom is sure to soon be hers. But when her trusted mentor is found murdered, Penny realises she’s made a terrible mistake – a sinister someone is using the uncanny portraits to kill off the subjects one by one. As more perfectly beautiful students start to fall, Penny knows her time is running out . . . A seductive and searing exploration o...