Me Before You is the story of a seemingly free-spirited young woman who is trapped in a small life. She loses her safe, quiet cafe job and, through the local employment support agency, she finds that she’s not qualified for much. This is a major problem for her family, who she helps to support through her (albeit small) wages. Eventually, after some trial and error, and an unfortunate attempt at work in a chicken meat production factory, she winds up taking a job as a […]

Trigger Warning: these books include descriptions of violence, incest, coerced sexual situations, rape and public perception of rape. If such discussions are upsetting to you, please avoid this review, and absolutely avoid the novels. I’ve tried to write the reviews for each of these book separately, but it seems borderline impossible.  The problem is that they are essentially a variation on the same plot, so I just going to lump them into one. I decided to try a few New Adult books after reading Fangirl […]

I just do not know how to feel about the Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty. The premise is that Cecilia Fitzpatrick finds a letter from her husband, one she was never supposed to read and, of course, she reads it. And, of course, she wishes she didn’t. Cecelia represents the high-functioning over-achieving archetype of a mother. She’s the one who strikes fear in the hearts of all the women who purchase baked goods for the bake sale. That is, if we are assuming (and these kinds […]