This is my August Book Of The Month Subscription!
I got 6 (Yes, SIX!) Books. In July I decided that I NEEDED to have two separate accounts. Which let me be able to get three books from each account.
I was so excited for this month’s book selection, it was really hard for me to decide which to pick! So… I decided to pick 4 out of the 5 books. And also got 2 add-ons.
My Top Two Picks are Dominicana By Angie Cruz and Well Met by Jen DeLuca. I decided to pick this book because Romance is my absolute favorite genre, and I have recently become intrigued by Coming-Of-Age stories (I have never read any before becoming a member of Book of the Month subscription).
Book Synopsis:
Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls grew up with in tHe Dominican Countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes to tale her to New York With. she must say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age or that threw is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold sixth-flora walk-up in Washington Heights. Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by César, Juan’s free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay.
As the Dominican Republic slides into political turmoil, Juan returns to protect his family’s assets, leaving César to take care of Ana. Suddenly, Ana is free to take English lessons at a local church, lie on the beach at Coney Island, dance with César at Audubon Ballroom, and imagine the possibility of a different kind of life in America. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family.
Publication Day: September 3rd 2019
Book Synopsis:
Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, to help her sister, but who could have anticipated getting roped into volunteering for the Renaissance faire? Or that the irritating and inscrutable schoolteacher in charge of the volunteers would be so annoying that she finds it impossible stop thinking about him?
The Faire is Simon’s family legacy. and he makes it clear that he doesn’t have time for Emily’s lighthearted approach to life, her oddball Shakespeare conspiracy theories, or her endless suggestions for new acts to shake things up. Yet of the Faire grounds he becomes a different person, flirting freely with Emily when she’s in her revealing wench’s costume costume. But is this attraction, or just part of the characters they’re portraying?
This summer was only supposed to be a pit stop for Emily, but now she can’t shake the fantasy of calling Willow Creek–and Simon–home.
Publication Day: September 3rd 2019
The next two books I have choose are something out of my comfort zone of reading. I really do not like creepy movies, but the seasons are changing soon. And with Halloween coming up, I’m feeling a bit festive and wanted these next two books… Whisper Man by Alex North and Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware.
I have added to this two book on my October To-Be-Read List. I’m excited, anxious, and a tiny bit scared to read them!
Book Synopsis:
After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son, Jake, heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town, Featherbank.
But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was named “The Whisper Man” for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night.
Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes. His disappearance bears an unnerving resemblance to Frank Carter’s crimes, reigniting old rumors that he preyed with an accomplice. Now, Detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis must find the boy before its too late, even if that means Pete has to revisit his get foe in prison: The Whisper Man.
And than Jake begins acting strangely. He hears a whispering at his window…
Published Date: August 20th 2019
Book Synopsis:
When Rowan Caine stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems too good an opportunity to miss– a live-in nanny post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when she arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten–by the luxurious “smart” one fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family.
What she doesn’t know is the t she’s stepping gents a nightmare– one that with end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.
Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggle to explain the unraveling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, of the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was let alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman, Jack Grant.
It was Everything.
She knows she’s made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty– at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.
Publish Date: August 6th 2019
These last two books, are my extra Add-ons. I have been wanting to read this two for a while. I have been seeing a lot of great reviews about them. Miracle Creek by Angie Kim is on my September To-Be-Read list. While, A Nearly Normal Family BY M. T. Edvardsson will be both on my October To-Be-Read list, along with my creepy, spooking books.
Book Synopsis:
In rural Miracle Creek, Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device called Miracle Submarine. A pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic “dives” it’s also a repository of hopes and dreams: the dream of a mom that her child can be like other kids; the dream of a young doctor desperate to cure his infertility and save his marriage: the dream of the Yoos themselves, Korean immigrants who came to the United States so their teenage daughter can have a better life .
When the oxygen chamber mysteriously explodes, killing two people, all these dreams shatter with it, and the ensuing murder trial uncovers unimaginable secrets and lies,
Publish Date: April 16th 2019
Book Synopsis:
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of a the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenage from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him?
Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses testes as they defend their daughter while struggling to understand why she is a suspect.
Publish Date: June 25th 2019
If you do not have Book of the Month Subscription, I highly recommended it for you book lovers! They also have a Young Adult Book of the Month Subscription. CLICK HERE for a referral code for a free book when you first sign up!
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