June 2020 Book Reviews
This June I read more than my goal. Which is good because I definitely had some catching up to do! Here are my reviews on the books I read in June.
Catch and Kill By Ronan Farrow
I really wanted to like this book. I wanted it to be the expose that I was expecting to read. I found this book to be very self-indulgent and boring. I did not like Farrow’s writing style, I felt like he went on and on for pages about things that were not important to the plot. Like I said earlier, I really wanted to like this book, it is such an important topic that people need to be informed about. I will continue to read similar books, I just didn’t like this one.
I gave this book 2 out of 5 stars.
Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
I have read all of the books in the Shopaholic series. I binge read the first few when I discovered them and have read the newer ones as they come out.
This book, like most of her books, has a protagonist that is sometimes challenging to root for. Personally, I always feel myself getting annoyed with the female protagonists in the beginning of all of Kinsella’s books. There is a theme in her books of a girl that is making stupid decisions to try and fix her life. Pining after the wrong guy, making a fool of herself in public, etc. But, after a few chapters, the painful to read protagonist always seems to turn it around and become someone you can root for.
This book did not deviate from that theme. The main character, as always, is addicted to shopping. And now that she is married, she is making stupid excuses for the things that she is buying and trying to fleece her husband into thinking she is saving the world.
But, all of the Shopaholic books are easy to read and fun. I gave this book 3 out of 5 stars.
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
This novel has an interesting plot. Dannie is a type A young professional who has everything planned out. She has the perfect fiancee, the perfect apartment, and the job of her dreams. And then one night she has a very realistic dream that she is engaged to a man who is not her fiancee, that she is blissfully happy with him and is living in an apartment very different than what she is used to. She wakes up from this dream confused and tries to brush it off, until she meets the guy from the dream, its her best friend’s new boyfriend!
This book was pretty easy to read and entertaining, it is a plot that seems predictable and familiar, but ends up going in a direction that I definitely did not expect. I recommend this book and gave it 4 out of 5 stars.
Anti-inflammatory Diet Plan by Sandra Cook
I have spent a lot of time during this pandemic researching diet and nutrition, this book was available on Kindle Unlimited so I figured that I would try it. I did not like this book. It was missing a lot of credibility. It did not feel like it had been well researched. I was hoping to learn a lot more about inflammation and how to prevent it, but this just felt like someone had read a bunch of blogs and threw the information into a book. I gave this book 1 out of 5 stars.
Verity by Colleen Hoover
This was my book club book this month. I did not choose it and after reading the synopsis I was a little apprehensive.
The protagonist, Lowen, is a struggling author who gets the opportunity of a lifetime. A major author has been in an accident and is unable to finish the rest of the books she is contracted to write. That is where Lowen comes in, she is hired to write the last three books. Lowen moves into Verity’s house with her husband, son, and the incapacitated, comatose Verity, to research what Verity was working on. She wants to find the notes Verity has made on the direction her books were going to go.
What Verity finds is a broken family, and a very suspicious comatose Verity. This book had a lot of suspense, and a lot of romance. I found some of the romantic scenes to be disturbing, they were dark and occasionally unnecessary. At times it felt like the author put in smutty scenes just to have some smut and not for the plot. The whole book I thought I could predict the ending, but the ending was completely unpredictable!
I ended up really liking this book, I gave it 4 out of 5 stars.
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