The Limit of Books Does Not Exist
My love for books is like pi, it's never ending
Yesterday was my one year anniversary of blogging! Over the last year, I have almost 400 followers and over 12,000 views! When I started, I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. I have virtually met and interacted with so many new friends and have gotten a ton of amazing book recommendations!
Thank you to everyone that has visited my blog in the past year!
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Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are:
When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside–but he’s not alone. It seems the entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe, ostensibly to care for their matriarch but truly to stake claim on the massive fortune that Su Yi controls.
With each family member secretly fantasizing about getting the keys to Tyersall Park–a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore–the place becomes a hotbed of intrigue and Nicholas finds himself blocked from entering the premises.
As relatives claw over heirlooms, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu, but tormented by his ex-wife–a woman hell bent on destroying Astrid’s reputation and relationship. Meanwhile Kitty Pong, married to billionaire Jack Bing, finds a formidable opponent in his fashionista daughter, Colette.
Once, Special Agent Smoky Barrett hunted serial killers for the FBI. She was one of the best–until a madman terrorized her family, killed her husband and daughter, and left her face scarred and her soul brutalized. Turning the tables on the killer, Smoky shot him dead–but her life was shattered forever.
Now Smoky dreams about picking up her weapon again. She dreams about placing the cold steel between her lips and pulling the trigger one last time. Because for a woman who’s lost everything, what is there left to lose? She’s about to find out.
In all her years at the Bureau, Smoky has never encountered anyone like him–a new and fascinating kind of monster, a twisted genius who defies profilers’ attempts to understand him. And he’s issued Smoky a direct challenge, coaxing her back from the brink with the only thing that could convince her to live.
The killer videotaped his latest crime–an act of horror that left a child motherless–then sent a message addressed to Agent Smoky Barrett. The message is enough to shock Smoky back to work, back to her FBI team. And that child awakens something in Smoky she thought was gone forever.
Suddenly the stakes are raised. The game has changed. For as this deranged monster embarks on an unspeakable spree of perversion and murder, Smoky is coming alive again–and she’s about to face her greatest fears as a cop, a woman, a mother…and a merciless killer’s next victim.
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. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined.
In this deft exploration of love, loyalty, race, justice, and both Black masculinity and Black womanhood in 21st century America, Jones achieves that most-illusive of all literary goals: the Great American Novel.
What are your WWW? Have you read any of my WWW?
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Places Mentioned In Books That I’d Like to Visit.
Rum & Razors – St.Thomas! I want to escape winter!
The Nightingale – France.
Little Black Lies – Falkland Islands.
The Dry – Kiewarra near Melbourne, Australia.
Hidden – Wales.
Behind Closed Doors – Britain
Local Girl Missing – Oldciffe, United Kingdom.
The Sister – Britain.
The Book Thief – Germany.
The Husband’s Secret – Australia.
When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside–but he’s not alone. It seems the entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe, ostensibly to care for their matriarch but truly to stake claim on the massive fortune that Su Yi controls.
With each family member secretly fantasizing about getting the keys to Tyersall Park–a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore–the place becomes a hotbed of intrigue and Nicholas finds himself blocked from entering the premises.
As relatives claw over heirlooms, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu, but tormented by his ex-wife–a woman hell bent on destroying Astrid’s reputation and relationship. Meanwhile Kitty Pong, married to billionaire Jack Bing, finds a formidable opponent in his fashionista daughter, Colette.
Well that’s it. The final novel in the Crazy Rich Asians series. I’m super excited to (hopefully) see this novel turned into a film. I think it will look incredible on screen with a totally outrageous cast of characters.
So much family drama as grandma, Su Yi, is on her deathbed. The family fortune is up in the air as each family member fights to be on Su Yi’s good side. There was lots of surprises as this plot was unfolding.
Like the previous novel, Nick and Rachel take a back seat as the more colourful cast shines. Astrid, Kitty, Su Yi and Eddie each have their own storylines and they were quite enjoyable and of course over the top.
I’m not a huge fan of the ending. I feel like a couple of points were missing to fully wrap up the novel. Also side note on one couple getting together in the end, did I miss something? Or did Kwan just throw them together randomly??
3 calculators out of a potential 5. Overall, I enjoyed this trilogy. It’s light, it’s funny and just so over the top with crazy rich Asians!
Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket’s Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience. Kevin, a bartender, is secretly sleeping with a French housekeeper named Isabelle. Ava, a school teacher, is finally dating the perfect guy but can’t get him to commit. And Bart, the youngest and only child of Kelley’s second marriage to Mitzi, has recently shocked everyone by joining the Marines.
As Christmas approaches, Kelley is looking forward to getting the family together for some quality time at the inn. But when he walks in on Mitzi kissing Santa Claus (or the guy who’s playing Santa at the inn’s annual party), utter chaos descends. With the three older children each reeling in their own dramas and Bart unreachable in Afghanistan, it might be up to Kelley’s ex-wife, nightly news anchor Margaret Quinn, to save Christmas at the Winter Street Inn.
Before the mulled cider is gone, the delightfully dysfunctional Quinn family will survive a love triangle, an unplanned pregnancy, a federal crime, a small house fire, many shots of whiskey, and endless rounds of Christmas caroling, in this heart-warming novel about coming home for the holidays.
What a perfect winter/Christmas novel. The novel is short and takes place over 3 days – December 23, 24 and 25. The novel follows the Quinn family and boy does a ton of stuff happen to them over the holidays. I really enjoyed reading about the drama happening in their lives and how they come together as a family to overcome it.
The characters aren’t perfect and I feel like I have read about them before in Hilderbrand’s other novels (strong mother that comes to patch everyone up regardless about how she has treated them in the past, father falling apart when wife leaves, daughter can’t get man to propose, etc.). It’s not that I didn’t enjoy them, but I feel like I already know this story and how it ends.
And then there is the cliffhanger. The novel was published back in 2014, so I know that there is more novels in the series, but I couldn’t imagine ending on that cliffhanger and then waiting another year to read the next novel. Hate it when authors feel that they need these giant cliffhangers.
3 calculators out of a potential 5. A cozy winter read and a good start to a new series for me!
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