No. 43 for 2015!

Title: Pretty Baby
Author: Mary Kubica
Rating: 5/5
Book: 43/50
Pages:  371 pgs
Total Pages: 16,172 pages
Version: Book
Next up: The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1) by Rick Riordan

I devoured this book! The fact that I read this book in two days while in the middle of a massive reading slump should speak volumes about how much I enjoyed this book! Maybe this is the book that will bring me out of my slump!

I have read Kubica’s two books and I have loved them both. Despite being a new author, Kubica tells a story like she is a veteran of the trade. This book kept me turning pages right to the very end. I highly recommend both this book as well as Kubica’s debut novel,  The Good Girl if you are looking for a psychological thriller.

 About the Book:

She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can’t get the girl out of her head…

Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal—or worse. But despite her family’s objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home.

Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow’s past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she’s willing to go to help a stranger. What starts as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated.

No. 42 for 2015

Title: The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave #1)
Author: Rick Yancey
Rating: 4/5
Book: 42/50
Pages:  457 pgs
Total Pages: 15,801 pages
Version: Book
Next up: Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica

I had tried to read this book when it first came out and I had decided that it wasn’t my thing and I gave up on it. On my friend’s recommendation, I picked it up again and I am glad that I did. While the book didn’t blow my mind or anything, I enjoyed it and I look forward to reading the second book in the series!

 About the Book:

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother–or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.