Shae Riki Reads

Synopsis:

A powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams.

In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life.  At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in…

Pub Date: 29 September 2020

Synopsis:

A rich, soulfully written novel about inheritance and resistance that tests the balance between modern and traditional customs.

When Sharifa accompanies her husband on a marriage-saving trip to India, she thinks that she’s going to research her great-great-grandfather, a wealthy business leader and philanthropist. What captures her imagination is…

The Sight of You

Synopsis:

Joel is afraid of the future.

Since he was a child he’s been haunted by dreams about the people he loves. Visions of what’s going to happen – the good and the bad. And the only way to prevent them is to never let anyone close to him again.

Callie can’t let go of the past.

Since her best friend died, Callie’s been lost. She knows she needs to be more spontaneous and live a…

22 Minutes of Unconditional Love

Synopsis:

Convinced she’s found the one, Judith Stone succumbs to the push and pull of her sexual entanglement with Howard Rose, constantly seeking his attention and approval. That is, until she realizes that beneath his erotic obsession with her, Howard is intent on obliterating any sense of self she possesses. As Merkin writes, his was “the allure of remoteness, affection edged in ice.”…

Synopsis: In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless ‘artist’ – all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid’s wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with…

If I Had Your Face

Synopsis:

If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul – a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret ‘room salons’ to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours, where K-Pop stars are the object of all-consuming obsession, and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move.

Navigatin…

Synopsis: Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. They are settling into the routine of their life together, when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he…

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

💛 Get a Life, Chloe Brown 💛

I L O V E D this book from the very first page, as well as every page after. I was in a reading slump and desperately needed a five star read.

Firstly, what I loved in particular about this book was that Chloe suffers from the same medical conditions as myself (well one of the many I have 😓). Fibromyalgia and chronic pain is so misunderstood and overlooked. It is…

Synopsis: It’s the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this…

Maddie Dawson Book Series

OU GUYS!!! LOOOOOOK!!!! Oh my gosh where do I start. So after sharing my mini review of A Happy Catastrophe (I received the ARC from Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing) …it wasn’t even a review it was just me saying how obsessed I am with the incredible book (5⭐️ by the way) the author Maddie Dawson contacted me and thanked me for all the engagement I’d been doing for her book on Instagram (I…

Synopsis: Lace Ashburn was only twelve years old when she witnessed a murder behind Pandemonium’s grandeur – a strange, magical traveling show where admittance is hard to gain. With a dead Ringmaster and his murderer in jail, Pandemonium packed up and fled in the middle of the night, remaining missing for five years. When Lace’s older brother steps up to take the throne of Falhaven, he announces…

You Were Made For Me

Synopsis:

The day I created a boy started out like any other. 

Katie didn’t mean to create a boy. A boy like a long-lost Hemsworth brother: six-foot tall with floppy hair and eyes like the sky on a clear summer’s day; whose lips taste like cookie dough and whose skin smells like springtime.

A boy who is completely devoted to Katie.

He was meant to be perfect.

But he was never…

Synopsis:

Susan Napier’s family once lived on the success of the high-end restaurants founded by her late grandfather. But bad luck and worse management has brought the business to the edge of financial ruin. Now it’s up to Susan to save the last remaining restaurant: Elliot’s, the flagship in Edinburgh.

But what awaits Susan in the charming city of Auld Reekie is more than she bargained…

This little book is so sweet and wonderful! The illustrations are amazing as well. Definitely suited more towards a child who is learning to read I think rather than being a book that should be read tochildren. Particularly a good book if there is a wedding on the horizon, but I do suspect that children wouldn’t know why their mummies wedding is any different to their aunt and uncles wedding, for…

The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones

I think it goes without saying that the cover is breathtakingly beautiful (and at least 50% of the reason I requested this book from Netgalley)

Publishers Synopsis:

It’s the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he’s sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his…

The Weight of Small Things

Publisher’s Synopsis:

Nine-year-old Frankie Appleton likes to count gates.

One day she hopes to design the perfect gate – a gate to keep the bad things out.

Little does she know that the bad things have already got in.

Now her mother is dead, and the only other person with a house key has disappeared.

Frankie thinks she knows who it is. But first she has to prove it.

A…

OK, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea

Publisher’s Synopsis:

Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of stupid ideas in his life. Now, in his scintillating debut, he is here to tell you about them: like the time (aged 5) he opened a gate and let a horse out of its field, just to see what would happen; or the time (aged 19) he jumped out of a plane for charity, even though he didn’t much care about the charity and was sure he’d end up dead;…