The Literary Adventures of an Opinionated Bookworm

"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California...In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance." My immediate response to reading the summary of Godshot  by Chelsea Bieker was "Ooh, very interesting!" I hastily placed the book on hold at my local library, and waited anxiously for COVID restrictions to decrease so that the library would start lending out books again.  Needless to say, there was a lot of build-up to reading this book.  A Rough Beginning It took me two days to get through 40 pages of this book; for some reason, I just was not clicking with the story. But on the third day, I sat myself down, determined to read this book in its entirety. After all, it was the first recommendation I ever received from a reader, and I don't like to leave books unread; it feels unfair to the author to write a review without knowing the full story. Thankfully, the story did get better as I read on, but it w...

Have you ever read the right book at the right time?  It feels like an odd question to ask, but occasionally I will pick up a book that perfectly fits my mood and also comments on current events in a meaningful way. Party of Two  by Jasmine Guillory was the book that made me feel this way over the past two days. It is a story of an interracial romance between Olivia, an attorney who moved from New York to L.A. to start her own firm, and Max, a junior senator who is passionate about the world he wants to help create.  Learning From Olivia Romantic stories put us through a roller coaster of emotions, this we all know. We laugh, we cry, we scream, but sometimes--if we are very lucky--we also learn something valuable. Jasmine Guillory seamlessly wove valuable lessons into the uplifting story, and accomplished the following: showed her readers the pressures an interracial couple might face in the 21st century, especially a couple that is in the public eye described ...