As part of my monthly series to recap all of the book’s I read each month (and hopefully help you find your next good read), here’s what I read in April. This month all the books I read were 10/10, so you can’t go wrong with any of the below!
- The Huntress by Kate Quinn: The Alice Network by this same author is one of my favorite books, so I went into this one with high hopes and it didn’t disappoint (although I will say The Alice Network is definitely the superior book). In this immersive, heart-wrenching story, Kate Quinn illuminates the consequences of war on individual lives, and the price we pay to seek justice and truth.
- Girl A by Abigail Dean:This is without a doubt one of the darkest books I’ve ever read, which is saying something because I’m a big thriller and murder/mystery fan – basically, it’s not for the faint of heart. Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings. It’s been easy enough to avoid her parents–her father never made it out of the House of Horrors he created, and her mother spent the rest of her life behind bars. But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can’t run from her past any longer. Together with her sister, Evie, Lex intends to turn the home into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her siblings–and with the childhood they shared.
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: By far my favorite book of the month and definitely a contender to make my top 5 favorite books of the year for 2021. In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
- Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black: I love historical fiction especially stories set in World War II, and this one took a unique approach that made it a great read. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life—all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.New York Times bestselling author Cara Black is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this masterful, pulse-pounding story about one young woman with the temerity—and drive—to take on Hitler himself.
