Dear
FictionAddicts,
It’s raining,
it's pouring…Raining cats and dogs and shall I say it’s the best time of the year
for me. I just want to take a break from all the hassles of work and adult life,
snuggle in bed with a large mug of coffee and several books till the rains go
away. Boy do I love me some rain!
This
month we’ll read, The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
and How to Walk Away by Katherine Center.
The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine, 2017
Amber
Patterson is fed up. She is tired of being a nobody: a plain invisible woman
who bends into the background. She deserves more - a life of money and power
like the blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted.
To
everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne- a socialite
and philanthropist – and her business mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple
straight out of a fairy tale.
Amber’s
envy could eat her alive… if she didn’t have a plan. Amber uses Daphne’s
compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life – the first
step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. Before long, Amber is Daphne’s
closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely
young daughters, and growing closer to Jackson. But a skeleton from her past
may undermine everything Amber has worked towards, and if it is discovered, her
well laid plans may fall to pieces.
Quotes
from the book:
·
“Everything had begun with
such promise. And then, like a windshield chipped by a tiny pebble, the chip
turned into deep cracks until there was nothing to repair.”
· “Dating as a means to
getting to know someone is highly overrated. When your hormones are raging and
the attraction is magnetic, your brain takes a vacation. He was everything I never
knew I needed.”
· “I was learning that
emotional intimidation could be just as unsettling as physical.”
" “ There’s nothing like the
rush that comes with fulling in love.”
You can download a copy of The Last Mrs. Parrish, here
How to Walk Away by Katherine Center, 2018
Margaret
Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked so hard for
and so long: a new dream job, a fiance she adores, and the promise of a
picture-perfect life just around the corner.
Then
suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life,
everything she worked for is taken away in a brief tumultuous moment. In the
hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same
again, Maggie must confront the unthinkable.
First
there is her fiance, Chip, who wallows in self-pity while simultaneously
expecting to be forgiven. Sometimes the last thing you want is the only thing
you need. Sometimes the only thing you need. Sometimes we all need someone to
catch us when we fall. And sometimes love can find us in the least likely place
we would ever expect.
Quotes
from the book:
·
“When you don’t know what to
do for yourself, do something for somebody else.”
·
“It is the trying that
heals you. That’s all you have to do. JUST TRY.”
· “More than anything, I know
that you just have to choose to make the best of things. You get one life, and
it only goes forward. And there really are all kinds of happy endings.”
That’s it folks! Read away and have a blissful July.
Love,
FictionAddict.
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