Book Beginnings on Fridays and The Friday 56: Her Name Was Rose by Claire Allan

 

Hello! Happy Friday. This is my third week, joining the blog memes called Friday 56 and Book Beginnings for Friday. I just recently finished reading a book called Her Name Was Rose by Claire Allan. It's an ebook and I read it on my iPhone. The first few sample pages made me buy the book and I'm glad I did because I really enjoyed reading it and I did not expect that twist in the end. 

Anyway, here's the synopsis from Apple Books if you're interested.

Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda's Voice while Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader.

Rules for The Friday 56:

·      Grab a book, any book.

·      Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.

·      Find any sentence that grab your attention.

·      Post it.

·      Add your (post URL) here.

·      It’s that simple.

Book Beginnings:

"It should have  been me. I should have been the one who was tossed in the air by the impact of a car that didn't stop. ' Like a ragdoll,' the papers said."

Page 56: 

'Close the door,' he said as he took his seat behind his desk. He probably imagined he looked foreboding - but he didn't. He was too small, too fine a creature, too weedy to intimidate me. I wondered whether his mother still took his trousers up for him. 

'Sit down, ' he said, and I did, straightening my skirt and taking a deep breath. I looked at him.
'So the dentist?' he said. I shrugged, unsure what he wanted me to say. 
'You were there this morning?'

That's all for today! Have a great weekend!:)

Book Beginnings on Fridays and The Friday 56: The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner

Happy Friday once again! For this week's Friday 56 and Book Beginnings on Friday, I chose the book 'The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner.' 

Synopsis here.

Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda's Voice while

Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader.

Rules for The Friday 56:

·      Grab a book, any book.

·      Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.

·      Find any sentence that grab your attention.

·      Post it.

·      Add your (post URL) here.

·      It’s that simple.

Book Beginnings:

At six a.m. the Huntsville "Walls" Unit went to full lockdown.

Page 56:

"Tonight Chenney was supposed to be trailing Dr.William Sheffield, but David had caught the anesthesiologist leaving the party after two a.m. and Chenney hadn't been anywhere in sight."

Book Beginnings on Fridays and The Friday 56: His Perfect Wife by Natasha Bell

Happy Friday! Today I will be joining for the very first time the weekly blog meme Friday 56 and Book Beginnings on Friday. The book that I chose for this week is His Perfect Wife from Natasha Bell. Synopsis here.

Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda's Voice while

Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader.

Rules for The Friday 56:

·      Grab a book, any book.

·      Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.

·      Find any sentence that grab your attention.

·      Post it.

·      Add your (post URL) here.

·      It’s that simple.

Book Beginnings:

           

Marc Sat on the bottom stair and tried not to think the worst. The voice continued: “The vast majority of people return safe and well within the first forty -eight hours, Mr. Southwood. There’s no need to panic.” There was a pause. Marc knew he should take comfort from this. Sit tight and wait for his wife to return with a perfectly reasonable explanation.

 

Page 56:

 

“That day Marc had insisted he needed to go out to the library. My pleas had failed me and he’d left me with a full coffeepot and instructions to apply for the admin post at the uni that had just been advertised. I knew I should, but my brain was already thinking of other ways to spend the day.”

 

See you all next week! Have a great weekend:) 

Book Review: The Last Flight by Julie Clark

The Last Flight by Julie Clark (TW: physical & emotional abuse, drugs, etc. Read at your own risk.)

Synopsis: Claire and Eva are both looking for an escape from their current situations. Claire from her abusive husband while Eva from a dangerous lifestyle. An encounter at the airport gave them a chance of a lifetime. They've hatched a plan to switch their plane tickets, coats, purses, etc. Claire become Eva and Eva become Claire. It seemed like a good plan for both of them.

But something happened no one expect, the flight that Eva took that supposed to be Claire's goes down and crashed into the ocean. Now, Claire is positive that someone wants her dead, but to become Eva has its own consequences too that she doesn't know yet. Consequences that Eva have been running from in the first place.

My review: I like this book. Claire had been planning her escape from her abusive husband for a year and the time has come to do it. On the other hand, Eva's life was a little bit sad for me. She was in foster care and though she finished college she still met the wrong people which made her life very vulnerable to abuse and who knows what.

The Last Flight is very engaging, I cannot put it down. Definitely recommend and it's definitely a page-turner!

My rating: 4/5

Reading Rush Challenge 2020

I got this challenge from siobhanlovesfilm on Tumblr. I’m not tagged or anything but this seemed fun.

1. Read a book with a cover that matches the colour of your birth stone.

I was born in May, so my birthstone is emerald and the closest book that I have that has a green cover is Denis Ever After by Tony Abbott.

2.  Read a book that starts with the word “The”.

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones. I really want to read this one. 

3.  Read a book that inspired a movie you’ve already seen.

My all-time favourite movie is the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and I must admit that I haven’t read The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King yet. 

4.  Read the first book you touch.

Ok, this one was hard to do lol. For this one I closed my eyes, walked towards my bookshelf and I ended up touching Looking for Alaska by John Green. This book was on top of my TBR list for years. I can’t just finish reading it, I don’t know why. Hopefully this year, I will be able to though.

5. Read a book completely outside of your house.

I’m planning to read Liane Moriarty’s the Husband’s Secret this weekend. We are visiting a friend and I'm going to bring this book for the two hour car ride.

6.  Read a book in a genre that you’ve always wanted to read more of.

I’ve always wanted to read more non-fiction books if possible and the one that I have always wanted to read is ‘Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell.

7. Read a book that takes place on a different continent than where you live.

The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis. I had this book for a while now and I have read the story about the Princess of Formori which is from Scotland. This book is a collection of stories from different parts of the UK.