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Megan's Library
Babes, as I’m sure you’ve gathered, I read a lot, and my taste in books is all over the map! So I thought each month I’d share with you five books I’d read the month before that stood out to me, and that I would definitely recommend - they’re not ranked, or in a particular order, and I can’t promise they’re for everybody but I’m going to try to include a range of genres and writing styles so hopefully you’ll be able to find something that catches your eye!
Without further ado, these are my picks from June:
Book: Fast Women
Author: Jennifer Crusie
I’m a big fan of Jennifer Crusie’s style - her brand of romance is sharp, funny and full of interesting characters getting into entertaining scrapes! This book is no different: Nell is recently divorced, and ends up working as a secretary for a small private investigator’s agency - as she gets more and more involved in the business (and with her boss), she ends up not only stealing a dog, but in the middle of a decades-old mystery involving her friends, her former in-laws and the agency... This book is light-hearted but with enough of an edge to keep things interesting! Definitely a good beach or dock read!
Book: Collecting the Dead
Author: Spencer Kope
This was a Rachel recommendation, and like all Rachel recommendations, it’s a smart, interesting thriller with a twist: Magnus “Steps” Craig is an FBI agent in the Special Tracking Unit, known as the “Human Bloodhound” - a nickname stemming from his ability to track people from the smallest trace. In actual fact, he has the ability to see people’s essence or “shine”, which gives him a definite edge in the tracking business! This book follows him and his team as they track a serial killer, and it will keep you on the edge of your seat, while still making you laugh with Steps’ dry humour. Definitely adding my recommendation to Rachel’s on this one!
Book: Witchmark Author: C.L. Polk
So, this book was JUST published: I’m talking June 19th, 2018, and apparently was one of the most anticipated books of Spring 2018! Now I knew none of that when we picked this one up on our recent Chapters run, I just knew that I was intrigued by the back: it promised magic, intrigue, betrayal and forbidden romance - what’s not to like? Imagine a post-World War One world, where aristocratic magical families control society, and one of their members just wants to use his gifts to help people. Miles is working as a doctor at a veterans’ hospital when he stumbles on a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of society as they know it, all while falling in love with a mysterious immortal investigating the same mystery and avoiding family entanglements! I really enjoyed the way this story unfolded, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a familiar-yet-different fantasy novel.
Book: The Thousandth Floor
Author: Katherine McGee
I love a good YA novel, and the concept of this one was too interesting to resist: set in 2118, New York has been rebuilt into the Tower, where the floor you live on has become a status symbol, and all the neighborhoods and landmarks have been transferred inside. The story follows six teenagers: some of the very privileged, some of the less so, as they navigate their lives, with loves, losses and betrayals a plenty. There’s a definite Gossip Girl-vibe to this book, and you spend the whole time trying to figure out who falls off the Tower, and why - and as soon as I finished it, I went looking for the second one and have it on hold at the library!
Book: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Author: Balli Kaur Jaswal
This book has been on the list of so many book clubs recently, so we picked it up to see what all the fuss was about! It didn’t disappoint: it promised a read that according to the blurb on the front was “bighearted and earthy and funny,” and that definitely held true - Nikki answers an ad for an instructor for a writing class at the biggest Punjabi temple in London, England, and quickly gets more than she bargained for when her creative writing class turns into teaching widows to read and write... but then they get bored of that, and it quickly gets interesting! All about finding a balance between tradition and modernity, this book also shows how powerful it is when people decide to speak out, whether in the form of erotic stories or to help solve a crime - I read this book in one sitting, and it left me wanting more!
