Welcome to a new series! Every month, I want to share a round up of all the 5 star books I read throughout the month. I will share a brief synopsis of what the books it about, along with a link to my full review. If you’re interested in catching up with all the other favorite books from earlier in the year, I recently did a post on that as well. In August, there were two books that I absolutely loved:
Meant to Be Mine by Hannah Orenstein
What if you knew exactly when you’d meet the love of your life? Edie Meyer knows. When her Grandma Gloria was a young woman, she had a vision of the exact day she would meet her soul mate—and then Grandpa Ray showed up.
Since then, Gloria has accurately predicted the day every single member of the family has met their match. Edie’s day arrives on June 24, 2022, when she’s twenty-nine years old. She has been waiting for it half her life. That morning, she boards an airplane to her twin sister’s surprise engagement, and when a handsome musician sits beside her, she knows it’s meant to be.
But fate comes with more complications than Edie expected and she can’t fight the nagging suspicion that her perfect guy doesn’t have perfect timing. After a tragedy and a shocking revelation rock Edie’s carefully constructed world, she’s forced to consider whether love chooses us, as simple as destiny, or if we choose it ourselves.
Amazon — https://amzn.to/3RMgXwz
My Review — https://chicklitplus.com/book-review-meant-to-be-mine-by-hannah-orenstein/
A Week of Warm Weather by Lee Bukowski
Tessa Cordelia appears to have it all—a loving husband who’s just opened a dental practice, a beautiful baby girl, a big house in the suburbs, and a large, supportive family. But when her husband’s reckless choices resurrect a trauma from her childhood, she must decide which is more costly: keeping his secrets or revealing them. He manipulates Tessa into believing his career and their happiness depend on her silence. She feels like she’s losing her mind. Is her husband’s habit so awful? In many ways, he’s an ideal husband; should she let him have this one thing? Determined to maintain the lie that she’s living the perfect life, Tess lies to everyone she knows—except for CeCe, a woman new to the area whom she’s just befriended. But after confiding in her, Tessa learns that CeCe has an explosive secret of her own, and her world is further upended.
A gripping, nuanced exploration of the havoc addiction can wreak on a family, A Week of Warm Weather is the story of a woman who has to figure out how much she is willing to lose in order to find herself.
Amazon — https://amzn.to/3d66xZP
My Review — https://chicklitplus.com/book-review-a-week-of-warm-weather-by-lee-bukowski/
What was your top read in the month of August?
