My Monday Musings…

I’m was officially falling into fall and enjoying the experience of a real fall for the first time in a few decades. Then we got a sudden taste of winter with plummeting temps (30's last night & snow in the mountains) & AHHHHH I'm not ready!!! Floridian here! I need to be eased into this stuff. lol

We're house hunting and put a bid in for a house over the weekend. It's super competitive out here so we probably won't get it but *fingers crossed*.

Reading is still slow going for some reason but I did manage to squeeze a few books in and one I LOVED so that’s always good.

Here’s a quick recap of my reading this past week!

Read:

Match Me If You Can by Tiana Smith ~ Goodreads

Mia tries to defy her best friend’s professional matchmaking skills and pick her own love match with disastrous results. Cute & fluffy (not an insult) read about making snap judgments about people, crushes, and friendships.

Source: Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review






Dry by Neal, Jarrod Shusterman ~ Goodreads

The scoop – after a long term drought, California now finds itself experiencing the Tap-Out. No one has running water anymore. FEMA is caught up with a hurricane on the other coast and the crisis garners a slow government response. Things happen quickly as people realize what’s happening and start to turn on each other – turning Alyssa’s quiet home association into a war zone - particularly with her neighbor - Doomsday prepper types that everyone made fun of but now they want them to share their resources.

This book was a blast to read! Taught pacing, interesting characters and a *this could happen to us soon* vibe made this one a page turner. I was so caught up in things I was actually surprised by a few things. Me the queen of predicting the plot spoilers from the back cover synopsis. lol

Dry is not heavy on character development but each person has enough background explained to understand their past and present motivations. It’s not so much that you care about individual characters (although you do!), as much as society, in general. There is a group that bands together, with additional pov’s added but never becoming overwhelming, and it doesn’t feel like the traditional YA teens save the world story. This is just about survival – pure and simple – in a world of increasing desperation and paranoia.

After living through a few hurricane seasons in FL, I can totally see this happening. Everything starts all hurricane party!, let's help each other to - screaming at the gas pump when fuel starts running low in the span of  a few hours.

Do they make dumb decisions sometimes? Yes. But I felt like they learned from it or it at least made sense as the struggled with their own humanity and how far they would go to stay alive.

There was a bit about (what felt like the potential love interest) being creepy and stalkery at first and I was like  - how the hell did this get published in 2018?? But it’s addressed and handled SO well!

I’m not sure what took me so long to read this one but I’m so glad I got around to it.. Plus, it’s a stand alone! (*Also, no romance, and heads-up the dog lives – this caused me a lot of panic while I was reading lol)

Source: Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Currently Reading:


Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert  ~ Goodreads

This is Hibbert’s first traditionally pub’d book and it looks adorable!
Source: Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Waiting on:

My library holds – notice how they’ll all come in at the same time lol

What's up with all of you this first week of October?