Welcome to my third day of TBR Love!
I apologize that I am a day behind. I don't know why, but my memory and planning failed me. I genuinely thought this blog party ran from Friday-Sunday, even though I knew the dates were the 12th-14th. I am currently on a break from Instagram because my mind, soul, and body have needed some time off, but apparently it hasn't been enough.
If you are reading this late blog, I truly appreciate you! I love doing these. Writing and books are two of my happy places and I've been trying to lean into happy spaces lately.
Another thing I've been trying to lean into is community, and one way for bookish people to do that is through today's TBR topic, 5 TBR Books I Want to Buddy-Read!
1. The Crash by Freida McFadden
Synopsis from Goodreads:
A brand new psychological thriller from #1 New
York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden!
The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed.
Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her
crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay
with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn't
realize she's heading straight into a blizzard.
She never arrives at her destination.
Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she's
made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs: she is rescued by a couple who
offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.
But something isn't right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as
time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven
isn't what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly
mistake yet.
And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself―and her unborn child.
A gut-wrenching story of motherhood, survival, and twisted expectations,
#1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers
a snowbound thriller that will chill you to the bone.
2. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Synopsis from Goodreads:
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one
unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the
grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight,
alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the
wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t
here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for
years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only
now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last
decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every
detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well,
Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two
women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The
Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look
at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance
encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
3. The House on Foster Hill by Jamie Jo Wright
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Kaine Prescott is no stranger to death. When her husband
died two years ago, her pleas for further investigation into his suspicious
death fell on deaf ears. In desperate need of a fresh start, Kaine purchases an
old house sight unseen in her grandfather's Wisconsin hometown. But one look at
the eerie, abandoned house immediately leaves her questioning her rash
decision. And when the house's dark history comes back with a vengeance, Kaine
is forced to face the terrifying realization she has nowhere left to hide.
A century earlier, the house on Foster Hill holds nothing but painful memories
for Ivy Thorpe. When an unidentified woman is found dead on the property, Ivy
is compelled to discover her identity. Ivy's search leads her into dangerous
waters and, even as she works together with a man from her past, can she
unravel the mystery before any other lives—including her own—are lost?
4. What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez
Synopsis from Goodreads:
The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River
Knows, Isabel Ibañez's lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and
filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.
Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of
nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is
steeped in old world magic that's been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez
has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most:
her globetrotting parents-who frequently leave her behind.
When she receives word of their tragic deaths, Inez inherits their massive
fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his
Egyptian brother-in-law. Yearning for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, bringing
her sketch pads and a golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before
he died. But upon her arrival, the old world magic tethered to the ring pulls
her down a path where she soon discovers there's more to her parent's
disappearance than what her guardian led her to believe.
With her guardian's infuriatingly handsome assistant thwarting her at every
turn, Inez must rely on ancient magic to uncover the truth about her parent's
disappearance-or risk becoming a pawn in a larger game that will kill her.
5. Predator Vs. Prey by Lisa McMann
Synopsis from Goodreads:
In Predator vs. Prey, Charlie Wilde’s dad has been abducted
by masked figures who might not even be completely human. And it will take more
than her incredible bracelet—which gives her powers from the animal kingdom—to
rescue him.
Luckily, Charlie’s friends now have bracelets of their own with all-new
abilities… they just have to work through a few issues first. Maria’s device
has hair-raising side effects. Mac can’t wait to hack into his. And their
frenemy, Kelly, swears hers is a dud. If Charlie is going to have any hope of
saving her dad—and the world—from their beastly foes, she’ll have to help her
friends master their powers and come together as a team.
