Quarterly Book Review: Oct-Dec
There are so many benefits to reading. Keeping your brain mentally stimulated, reducing stress, gaining knowledge, expanding your vocab, improving your memory, strengthening your analytical thinking skills, bettering your focus and concentration, making you a better writer. Should I go on?!? But on top of all that, it’s FUN to get lost in a story and take your mind elsewhere.. IMO at least 😜I read three books this quarter and give a short review on each below:
Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino
This novel is about two college students who fall head over heels for each other. It switches viewpoints from both of the main characters, and also back and forth between current day as adults, and the past as young and in love. Overall, I thought it was cute! Definitely some cheesy parts, lol. It’s almost a young adult novel I would say.
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
I won’t lie, this took almost half way through the book for me to even get into it… but once I did, man could I not put it down. It’s about a girl, nicknamed “Marsh Girl”, who is abandoned by her whole family and lives alone in a shack in the swamp. She’s completely cut off from all civilization besides a convenience store owner and two boys (at two separate times). The end has a twist that at that point, you had been completely convinced could never be true.
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
I honestly felt like this was just ok. It was so so so repetitive, and didn’t really give any clues or insight until the very end of the book. It’s a mystery/thriller that tells the story of four best friends covering up an extreme lie. It still somehow kept my attention though, so clearly must’ve been good enough. This is part of the Reese Witherspoon book club!
Kind of crazy that this is the LAST book review I’ll write of the decade. I’m really proud that I stuck with these quarterly reviews!! But I want to know if YOU enjoyed them— how often do you want to see book reviews, and are you even interested in them at all?! Comment below 👇🏼
xo, Mackenzie
