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The Book of M
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd is $1.99! This is a character-driven, near future sci-fi novel. One of my favorite book buddies say this is a book that starts of strongly, but drags around the middle. However, the writing seemed to be a major high point.
Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself.
One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories.
Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too.
Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless.
As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.
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Head Coach
Head Coach by Lia Riley is 99c! This is book two in the Hellions Angels series. You could probably get away with reading this as a standalone, though all three books in the series are loosely connected. Some readers felt this book was a bit rushed, which was something I felt after reading the first book, Mister Hockey. However, others recommend these books for some quick, fun romance reading.
Neve Angel’s life is all work and no play, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. One of Denver’s top sports reporters, she’s fought hard to make it in a male-dominated world, and she won’t back down from a fight with anyone–not even the Hellions’ gruff head coach, Tor Gunnar. Her hostile relationship with the icy Scandinavian is the stuff of local legend.
Tor Gunnar hates dealing with the media; at best, they are a nuisance and at worst, a distraction. And no one distracts him more than the scrappy, sexy reporter who gets him hot under the collar. When he wins a not-so-friendly bet with Neve, he decides it’s high time they either kiss or kill each other, and invites her as a date to an out-of-town wedding.
But what happens when enemies become lovers? Will they be able to smother their sizzling attraction, or is it time to start playing for keeps?
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Field Notes on Love
Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith is $1.99! I mentioned this one in a previous Hide Your Wallet because it sounded so stinkin’ cute. According to reviews, it is. It’s fluffy and adorable, but doesn’t really do anything new or surprising.
The bestselling author of Windfall and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight returns with a meet-cute romance about Hugo and Mae, two teens who are thrown together on a cross-country train trip that will teach them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.
It’s the perfect idea for a romantic week together: traveling across America by train.
But then Hugo’s girlfriend dumps him. Her parting gift: the tickets for their long-planned last-hurrah-before-uni trip. Only, it’s been booked under her name. Nontransferable, no exceptions.
Mae is still reeling from being rejected from USC’s film school. When she stumbles across Hugo’s ad for a replacement Margaret Campbell (her full name!), she’s certain it’s exactly the adventure she needs to shake off her disappointment and jump-start her next film.
A cross-country train trip with a complete stranger might not seem like the best idea. But to Mae and Hugo, both eager to escape their regular lives, it makes perfect sense. What starts as a convenient arrangement soon turns into something more. But when life outside the train catches up to them, can they find a way to keep their feelings for each other from getting derailed?
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Symptoms of a Heartbreak
Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra is $2.99! This is a contemporary YA novel about a young woman who becomes the youngest doctor in America. Yes, the Doogie Howser comparisons are apparent. Whereas the previous YA book today is on the cuter side, reviews say this is definitely not that. Expect angst and high levels of emotion here.
The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds―and falls head over heels―in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak.
Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She’s always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius―but she’s never had to prove herself to skeptical adult co-workers while adjusting to real life-and-death stakes. And working in the same hospital as her mother certainly isn’t making things any easier.
But life gets complicated when Saira finds herself falling in love with a patient: a cute teen boy who’s been diagnosed with cancer. And when she risks her brand new career to try to improve his chances, it could cost her everything.
It turns out “heartbreak” is the one thing she still doesn’t know how to treat.
In her solo debut, Sona Charaipotra brings us a compelling #ownvoices protagonist who’s not afraid to chase what she wants. Symptoms of a Heartbreak goes from romantic comedy highs to tearjerker lows and is the ultimate cure-all for young adult readers needing an infusion of something heartfelt.
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Field Notes on Love is super cute and totally worth a read.
Ok-I had to double check that Head Coach was a book I had loved! I’m really enjoying hockey (and other sport romances) but I am crap at remembering their titles. I thought Tor was very, very appealing. I enjoyed the whole friction of Coach, Sports writer-that felt like a very natural push and pull of a relationship. Of course they are on different sides, yet they have this undercurrent of being interested in the same thing. Lia Riley needs to write more hockey romances!! I have read and enjoyed her other hockey themed books, but this was my favorite.
I liked The Book of M well enough to finish it (I’m a no qualms DNFer). The twist was satisfying, but there was one POV character who either didn’t need POV time or should have been given more because the end events affected her A LOT and there was NOTHING from her at that point. I liked her, but she seemed wasted. I’d also recommend checking reviews from readers more knowledgeable than I about “magical disability” issues–I’m not sure if it bothered me because it was handwavy or because it was cringe in ways I’m not informed enough to articulate.
I didn’t DNF The Book of M, but did set it aside to revisit at some other future date–but, given the size of my TBR pile, that’s not a guarantee. I don’t remember a particular problem; I think it just failed to hold my attention.
Also, I realized I was old when almost all of my doctors started looking like Doogie Howser to me.
@Susan
“I realized I was old when almost all of my doctors started looking like Doogie Howser to me.”
Many years ago, during a first visit with one of my fav Ob-gyns, this subject came up. When he was a newbie doctor, he asked an older patient whether she was bothered by his youth. Her response (and I paraphrase here) was roughly: Sonny, when you get to my age, you want your doctors young and your lawyers old. Nowadays, I so get that. Also, it has always made me cackle so I thought I’d share.