Promise Me Sunshine by Cara Bastone
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I loved this sweet novel. It was light and joyful and exactly what i needed during these tough days.
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Jack Jr wakes up from a 2 year coma. He can’t remember what happened. Before the coma it was 2019. Now there’s covid. Before the coma he had a fiancee, now he’s nowhere to be found. Before the coma, he hadn’t really been talking to his family. Now he’s been at a hospital near them and his apartment in the city is gone, he moves back in with them and starts working at the family restaurant. This story is funny, sad, touching, and just a joy to read. You will love it.
Hyde always knows how to write a powerful story and this one is no exception. Michael is taking a film class and decides to do a documentary about people who have a problem with the way their bodies look. He has major burns in his body so he is expecting those with trauma like his and to his shock, he gets a much wider variety of people than he expected. This book is a kind, generous and honest journey Michael takes to find his way back to his own body and his own life so that he can live it to its fullest extent without apology. It’s powerful and sweet and touching. with gratitude to Lake Union Publishing and netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
Oh this is exactly the kind of story I love reading about. Broken people (and aren’t all people broken, really) who find each other, find happiness, find a way to wreck it, cause trauma on their kids who grow up to cause other trauma. People who try hard and find moments to redeem themselves and then make mistakes again and then work hard again. Rinse and repeat. Great sadness, big joys, unexpected surprises, finding our way back to each other, forgiving some too often and other not enough. Trying and trying and trying again. This book is so beautiful that you will love the moments you spend with it. with gratitude to netgalley and Simon & Schuster for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
This book was too long. It was also insane and one crazy blow after another and kept me engaged all the way to the end. The whole time, I thought it would make an awesome TV series. It looks like it was made into a tv series 40 years ago, I hope someone remakes it. It’s excellent.
4.5 stars. A powerful story of navigating deep buried sexual trauma and in a world in which the answers are never as clear and satisfying as we would like it to be, how to move through the trauma and find a way to get to the other side. Really powerful and worth reading.
I loved so much of this story. Especially the first part before it becomes a chase scene novel. I loved the characters, especially Artemis Darth Vader, I challenge anyone not to fall in love with her.
How lucky am I that so many of the writers whose books I loved have new books this year. El-Mohtar was on that list for me and while I couldn’t possibly love this as much as the previous one I still love love loved it.
I absolutely adore the writing of McConaghy. Always so much atmosphere! This one was a mystery in so many ways and I was totally here for it. I loved this book.
I both read and listened to this book on audio. I really enjoyed the audio which helped with the pacing in my opinion. I’ve read and loved Bauer’s books and this was no exception. However, this book, while fascinating, moved at a slower pace than I would have liked. I loved all the characters and I loved the moving back and forth in time to have mysteries unfold in several timelines. I loved falling head first into the world of egg collectors both in real life (as in physically collecting the eggs from the birds) and in the academic sense (who knew?!) and the obsession and craze and the ones who were taken advantage of and the ones who put themselves in all kinds of danger. It will be impossible for you to not fall into the rabbit hole of this world of danger, intrigue and deception. with gratitude to Grove Atlantic and Dreamscape Media and netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
I both read and listened to this book on audio. I really enjoyed the audio which helped with the pacing in my opinion. I’ve read and loved Bauer’s books and this was no exception. However, this book, while fascinating, moved at a slower pace than I would have liked. I loved all the characters and I loved the moving back and forth in time to have mysteries unfold in several timelines. I loved falling head first into the world of egg collectors both in real life (as in physically collecting the eggs from the birds) and in the academic sense (who knew?!) and the obsession and craze and the ones who were taken advantage of and the ones who put themselves in all kinds of danger. It will be impossible for you to not fall into the rabbit hole of this world of danger, intrigue and deception. with gratitude to Grove Atlantic and Dreamscape Media and netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
This was a crazy wild ride as all of Modglin’s stories are. I didn’t like it as much as others (maybe cause it was shorter?) but I still enjoyed it. |
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