I did not do well in reading once again this month. This month was slow going and I just had a hard time getting back to it. I also worked a lot once again. I only finished off two books this month. Which is one book more than last month. However, one of the books I was reading I was reading with my son as a school assignment and I didn't think it was fair to make him read it alone and so I read it. However, it was also to make sure that this book would not put him through the trauma of what he went through again. The last book he was assigned brought up some PTSD issues that we are still working through and it took a bit to get the teacher to understand that this is an issue. So without further discussion let's talk about books.
Refugee
by Alan Gratz
Page: 35
Published: July 25, 2017
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Synopsis: Three different kids.
One mission in common: ESCAPE.
Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world…
Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety and freedom in America…
Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe…
All three young people will go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers–from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But for each of them, there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, surprising connections will tie their stories together in the end.
My Opinion:
The story was great. I have just always had issues with multiple points of view. My son loved it. This was assigned reading for him. We ended up with a physical copy and an audiobook copy of this. He enjoyed this one much better that the book he started out on by the same author. We had to request an alternative assignment for him. And this is what was assigned.
We have three main characters. So in 1939 we meet Joseph and his family. A Jewish family living in Nazi Germany. And in 1994 we meet Isabel and her family in Cuba which is plagued by the civil unrest in the country. And finally in 2015 we meet a Syrian boy, living in a war-torn country, Mahmoud. Each main character is trying to find a better life. Each character has an amazing way of having things work out.
To Have and to Hold
by C.C. Monroe & K.D. Robichaux
Page: ...
Published: February 4, 2021
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Synopsis:
We were warned about the seven-year itch. It never came —thank God. But nobody warned us about what can come between man and wife when life gets in the way. Kids, jobs, jealousy, and more.
I was afraid the new woman he hired was going to fuel that jealousy inside me. She wanted him, and I knew it, felt it. I couldn't miss those green eyes looking him over as if he were prey.
He was the most prominent plastic surgeon on the Vegas Strip; he saw beautiful women every day. But would this one, the leggy brunette who so obviously wanted to wreck the home I wasn't sure was already broken or not, snake her way in?
Now I had to compete for the love of my life on the eve of our last attempt to save our marriage—our vow renewal ceremony.
It was time to remind my husband I wasn’t just a mom and housewife.
I was the woman who tamed the beast, and I’d do it again.
My Opinion:
This was a really quick read and I think it killed my desire to read a little bit. I think it felt a bit whiney to me. Very much insecure female. Worried that her husband was cheating on her with the new assistant. I do not know what I was hoping for out of this book but I have discovered that some of this is not the best for me. Some romance books are not for everyone but this one very much so was not for me. I didn't like the insecurity of the female. I have done more reading and I've discovered the type of romance novels that I like. This was sweet like candy gave me a tooth ache. Not my type of romance novel. I'm not saying it's bad for everyone just me.
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