Sunlight, Cocoa, and Good Books

  The Otherworld By Abbie Emmons The Otherworld synopsis: Orca Monroe wants only one thing for her eighteenth birthday: to experience the Otherworld—the mysterious “mainland” across the sea that her father has forbidden her from visiting. Growing up in a lighthouse on a remote island, Orca has lived isolated from the world… until one day when she finds a cell phone washed up on the beach. Orca has her first conversation with Jack Stevenson, a young man whose older brother, Adam, has gone missing after crashing his seaplane off the coast. Orca becomes Jack’s lifeline and his reason to hope that Adam is still alive. While her father is away, she scours the island for the missing pilot—determined to help Jack find his brother and prove to her father that she’s strong enough to take on the world. One stormy night, Orca finds Adam Stevenson collapsed on her doorstep. As she nurses him back to health, she finds herself spellbound by his inquiring mind and rugged good looks. Simultaneousl...

 Hello, wonderful readers! Here is a list of all the books I read in August. The highlighted ones are the ones that stood out to me. Happy reading! The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo-Taylor Jenkins Reid Pretty Girl-13-Liz Coley Send Down the Rain-Charles Martin 100 Days of Sunlight-Abbie Emmons She's Not Sorry-Mary Kubica As Good As Dead-Holly Jackson Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow-Gabrielle Zevin The God of the Woods-Liz Moore All the Bright Places-Jennifer Niven All the Little Raindrops-Mia Sheridan If He Had Been With Me-Laura Nowlin The Hate U Give-Angie Thomas Fake Skating-Lynn Painter The Best Christmas Ever-Abbie Emmons The Housemaid-Freida McFadden The Otherworld-Abbie Emmons Autumn Falls-Bella Thorne Pineapple Street-Jenny Jackson Unsolved Murders-Amber Hunt

  The Best Christmas Ever By Abbie Emmons The Best Christmas Ever synopsis: It’s Tessa and Weston’s first Christmas together, and Tessa is determined to make it the best holiday ever. But when her estranged mother shows up with a suitcase and plans to stay for two weeks, Tessa’s hopes are shattered. Bitter from the past and still holding a grudge, Tessa is in no mood to give her mother a second chance. The holiday season may be a time of reconciliation with family, but Tessa believes her mother will never change. Why get close when she’s just going to leave again? Tessa realizes there is only one way to save this avoid her mother as much as possible. With the best intentions in mind, Tessa chooses to not tell her mother about Weston’s disability. But when they meet face-to-face, Tessa is mortified and ashamed by her mother’s insensitive remarks. Weston begins to think he is the real cause of Tessa’s shame. His old demons resurrect to haunt him with What if, one day, Tessa stops lov...

 Hello, lovely readers! It's been a busy couple months, but I'm back to give you more book recommendations! Here is a list of all the books I read in July. The highlighted ones are the ones that stood out to me. Happy reading! The Premonition at Withers Farm-Jaime Jo Wright The Lake-Natasha Preston The Date to Save-Stephanie Kate Strohm Black Clover Vol. 1-Yuki Tabata You've Reached Sam-Dustin Thao Red Queen-Victoria Aveyard That's Not My Name-Megan Lally Say Yes Summer-Lindsey Roth Culli Project Hail Mary-Andy Weir Unsolved-Paula Woodward Follow Me Back-A. V. Geiger I Killed Zoe Spanos-Kit Frick Atmosphere-Taylor Jenkins Reid Artemis-Andy Weir Please Pay Attention-Jamie Sumner The House No One Sees-Adina King Where the Crawdads Sing-Delia Owens Good Girl, Bad Blood-Holly Jackson The Fall of Iris Henley-Jennifer Graham The Last Stone-Mark Bowden

  Project Hail Mary By Andy Weir Project Hail Mary synopsis: Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? -From goodreads.com I watched the movie before I read this book, and as much as I adored th...

  Red Queen By Victoria Aveyard Red Queen synopsis: This is a world divided by blood- red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power. Fearful of Mare's potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Scarlet Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime. But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance- Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, a...