Book Review: Its always the husband

The first book I finished in 2019 was It's Always the Husband.  I really liked this book but it was a bit slower paced than I like.  It jumped in time a lot so you really had to follow along well.  The entire book my suspicions of who killed the troubled Kate jumped from character to character and I really wasn't expecting for the blame to land where it did or the actual results to pan out the way they did because they ARE DIFFERENT!  This is a tale of college roommates that had a connection but not so much a friendship.  It was a good read but I think I would give it only 2.5 stars out of 5 due to the slow pace and sort of dull details.

Amazon Synopsis:

A suspenseful, absorbing novel that examines the complexities of friendship, It’s Always the Husband by Michele Campbell will keep readers guessing right up to its shocking conclusion.

Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, despite being as different as three women can be. Kate was beautiful, wild, wealthy, and damaged. Aubrey, on financial aid, came from a broken home, and wanted more than anything to distance herself from her past. And Jenny was a striver―brilliant, ambitious, and determined to succeed. As an unlikely friendship formed, the three of them swore they would always be there for each other. 

But twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone is urging her to jump. 

How did it come to this?

Kate married the gorgeous party boy, Aubrey married up, and Jenny married the boy next door. But how can these three women love and hate each other? Can feelings this strong lead to murder? When one of them dies under mysterious circumstances, will everyone assume, as is often the case,that it’s always the husband?

Book Review: Girl Wash Your Face

Lauren raved about this book while she was reading it.  She even screenshot an entire chapter to me one night LOL!!! She breezed through it and then passed it along to me insisting that I read it.  It sat beside my bathtub for a month or two but when we went to Switzerland last month I knew I had to take it and read it so I could give it back to her.  I breezed through it on the airplane and it was really a good book, for nonfiction. I'm not a nonfiction person but Rachel is so witty and spoke a lot of truths it kept me entertained through the end.  A lot of the chapters were related to being a mother or having children and although I don't fall into either of those categories currently I loved reading those chapters and hopefully feel more prepared for those actual chapters of life one day.  I think that the majority of that book is so spot on to ALL females.  I mean HELLO CHAPTER 7!!!!  I told my mom about it so next the book it traveling to her.  I know I'm probably late to this party as this book was all the rage last year but better late than never with self-improvement .  

Amazon Synopsis:

As the founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis developed an immense online community by sharing tips for better living while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own life. Now, in this challenging and inspiring new book, Rachel exposes the twenty lies and misconceptions that too often hold us back from living joyfully and productively, lies we’ve told ourselves so often we don’t even hear them anymore.  With painful honesty and fearless humor, Rachel unpacks and examines the falsehoods that once left her feeling overwhelmed and unworthy, and reveals the specific practical strategies that helped her move past them. In the process, she encourages, entertains, and even kicks a little butt, all to convince you to do whatever it takes to get real and become the joyous, confident woman you were meant to be.  With unflinching faith and rock-hard tenacity, Girl, Wash Your Face shows you how to live with passion and hustle--and how to give yourself grace without giving up.

Book Review: The Amateurs

Most will know Sara Shepard from her books Pretty Little Liars, which unless you've been living under a rock for the last 10 years, also know that series was turned into a VERY successful TV show on ABC Family. I  LOVE the show and I've also read almost all of the books in the Pretty Little Liars series so when I saw her name pop up for a series called, The Amateurs, I was ready to buy before I read the first synopsis.  I'm a sucker for a good mystery and young adult fiction.  I maybe should be reading something more sophisticated at my age but reading is a nice escape for me and one that I just want to enjoy and not think about too much.  The Amateurs is the first of the 3 novels in this series....so far. It centers around Helena a girl who went missing 5 years ago and a small group of amateur sleuths who uncover what REALLY happened to Helena.  While unraveling the mystery of the young girl's disappearance each member of the group opens up about their own hardships and struggles that the case brings forward.  Each member grows alone and together forming an unbreakable friendship.  The twist at the end was never seen by the reader or the other characters and it left me wanting to jump right into book two.  

Amazon Synopsis:

Five years ago, high school senior Helena Kelly disappeared from her backyard in Dexby, Connecticut, never to be heard from again. Her family was left without any answers--without any idea who killed Helena, or why.  So when eighteen-year-old Seneca Frazier sees a desperate post on the Case Not Closed message board, she knows it's time to change that. Helena's high-profile disappearance is the one that originally got Seneca addicted to true crime. It's the reason she's a member of the site in the first place.  Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, she agrees to spend spring break in Connecticut working on the case with Maddy Wright, her friend from Case Not Closed. However, the moment she steps off the train, things start to go wrong. Maddy's nothing like she expected, and Helena's sister, Aerin, doesn't seem to want any help after all. Plus, Seneca has a secret of her own, one that could derail the investigation if she's not careful.  Alongside Brett, another super-user from the site, they slowly begin to unravel the secrets Helena kept in the weeks before her disappearance. But the killer is watching... and determined to make sure the case stays cold.

I started another book and only in the first few pages decided to buy the second book in this series and read it first.  Currently reading Follow Me on my NEW paper white Kindle and I'm loving it so far.