15.9.19

Beach + Desirable ARCs | Weekly Rewind 9.15.19

Life Happenings

🌻I went to the beach!!!!! Freaking finally! Ugh, it was so nice! The sun was shining so bright and the water was a turquoise blue that had me in love! I went with my husband and my in-laws. I'm not kidding when I say I have the best in-laws. Even my friends agree with me. They have been the best parents in the entire world. I could write an entire book about their kindness and I would probably have to write a sequel, as well. Below is a picture of my mother-in-law and I!

No filter needed for this paradise 😍

🌻After the beach, my mother-in-law insisted on a pizza party. She had stocked up on Daiya Pizza so we had that, along with pasta, sweet plantain and avocado! My Puerto Rican heart was happy!

🌻I've been going a tad crazy. Apparently, my 7th graders are notorious bullies/cyberbullies. The director told me it's been going on since they were in 6th grade. Dealing with it has been... Interesting and quite sad. I really hope these kids realize what they're doing is completely wrong.

🌻On another note, K.A. Tucker announced the sequel to The Simple Wild, which will be called Wild at Heart and I'm so beyond happy! TSW has to be my fave Tucker novel so I'm excited to read more about Jonah and Calla!

The black things are Lindsay's Black Olives. They're the ONLY olives I eat (or Field Day's) because they don't have vinegar; therefore, the taste isn't strong.

Week In Reading

The Simple Wild was so perfect *cue all the sobs* The audio was definitely the route to go for this book. It made me feel all the emotions!

Love on Lexington Avenue was really cute. It got me even more excited for Audrey's story!

Another was so freaking good! Carina and Ian's banter was hilarious and the tug-of-war they had going on made the story even better! The wait for Hannah's story will be super long!

Week In Haul

eARCs

When I first read that The Stars We Steal had the premise of The Bachelorette goes to space, world of royal intrigue, lost love (second chance), plus enemies-to-lovers... I about DIED! When I got accepted for the eARC, I started screaming!!!!

My surprise was massive when I got The Burning Shadow! Heck, I don't even remember requesting it. I started jumping up and down!

Thanks to the publishers, authors and publicists for these copies!

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[September 9] Ingenious and Clever: The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

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9.9.19

Ingenious and Clever: The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

A gripping, clever mystery novel! It made me not want to go into any escape room...

THE ESCAPE ROOM
by Megan Goldin
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Publication Date: July 30th 2019 by St. Martin's Press
Format: eARC
Source: Publisher via Netgalley
Rating: ★★★½
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Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are ruthlessly ambitious high-flyers working in the lucrative world of Wall Street finance where deception and intimidation thrive. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to reach the top.

When they are ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, dark secrets of their team begin to be laid bare.

The biggest mystery to solve in this lethal game: What happened to Sara Hall? Once a young shining star—”now gone but not forgotten”.

This is no longer a game. They’re fighting for their lives.

"Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive."

The Escape Room deals with taking a few co-workers and sticking them together in an elevator for a "game". They think it's a team building exercise. What they don't know is that this game will bring out dark secrets from each one, dark enough to want to kill them. And the biggest secret/question of them all, "What happened to Sara Hall?"

How much trouble could four investment bankers get into in a locked elevator?

This book is told in two points of views. We have a third POV for the elevator scenes and then we have Sara's POV. Sara is a woman who knows she wants to work somewhere where she can get lots of money and be set for life. Her opportunity comes to work at Stanhope. What she doesn't know is that this place consumes you. It won't leave you any time for yourself. You're expected to work 365 days a year, to miss birthdays, miss a birth, anything.

Each and every one of us would have taken a bullet for the firm. If truth be told, I think that most of us would have killed for Stanhope.

Sara was so different from her colleagues. She didn't view Stanhope as the all and all. I loved being inside her head and seeing things from her perspective, which was so different than everyone else's. She was friendly, she cared. Stanhope hadn't completely taken a hold of her life... Yet.

If I keep talking, I'll spoil everything. This is one of those novels you have to go in blank. I will say that I loved reading about each character and why those specific characters ended in the elevator. I also loved that the author talked about discrimination in the work place towards women, as well as being unfair with the wages that each worker gets.

The Escape Room is an ingenious, sharp and clever mystery. I do wish the ending had been more... Complete? I can't say much or again, I will spoil everything. Despite the ending, I recommend this unrealistic, yet highly entertaining novel.

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8.9.19

PR License + Fro-Yo | Weekly Rewind 9.8.19

Life Happenings

🌻 I spent Sunday with my grandma and mom... I love my grandma but she can be super difficult. My mom was sick but she had told my grandma we were going to take her out for breakfast. Turns out she ate, but said she could eat something more. We take her to a restaurant where she tells us she won't eat anything and just wanted to go home... To say my mom and I were mad is an understatement!

🌻 I spent Labor Day at my house, correcting exams and making my weekly plan for the students. I went to my aunt's to stay the night and took my cousin out for some Fro-Yo (I got a fruit frappe). We rarely spend time alone or rarely go out just us since there's an 8-year difference between us, but we were both so happy we got to be just us girls for one night.

🌻 My husband arrived!!! I took the day off work for his arrival and also to get my Puerto Rican license since I'll be staying here now. Unfortunately, the PR government's offices are to die there. Literally. My mother-in-law got to the office a little earlier than 5 AM and she made number 12!!! Something I miss from the US is how fast things get done.

🌻 I'm completely devastated over Bahamas. I tried to stay away from the news as much as I could. It brought too many memories that I just didn't want to think about. I think all of Puerto Rico empathized with the Bahamas because we went through something similar. I say similar because Hurricane Dorian was way worse than Hurricane Maria. Puerto Rico already is sending so much help over there. Even Chef Jose Andres (Puerto Rican) is sending tons of food and supplies via helicopter and his own ships with helipads so they can land and provide these necessities to the people.

🌻 I went house-searching. I found one I really liked, but it was already rented 🙁 But I do believe I got saved there because it's right across an evangelical church. Nothing against them but they love to have the music way too loud to even be legal, especially at odd hours of the night.

🌻 There was an earthquake in Puerto Rico of 4.3 and it happened a few miles from the city where my mom lives. Thankfully, nothing happened but it was scary and the whole island felt it. I really hope nothing happens but people keep saying PR is due for a major earthquake 😭

Week In Reading

I can't believe I waited so long to read this! I ship Brenna and Jake so freaking hard!! 😍