We're only a week into September but I never did get round to sharing part 2 of my August recent reads, so I thought I'd combine that with some of the books I've read at the beginning of this month. I'm doing my first ever readathon this Autumn, and there was a 'stuff your kindle day' last week, so I've got loads of reading to get done over the next few weeks as we head towards the end of the year. Let's go!
One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
Ruth Ware is one of my favourite ever thriller writers, and I expected to love this book; I listened to this as an audiobook and honestly, I didn't get on with it all that well. This could definitely be because it was an audiobook, but I do enjoy listening to books so maybe not. The story was okay, just nowhere near as good as her others! Still well-written, just a bit meh for me.
Accidentally Married by Victorine E Lieske
I was in Spotify jail and wanted a random audiobook to throw on while working, so I went for this on YouTube - not expecting to really enjoy it, but I actually loved it. It's a cheesy predictable fake dating/marriage of convenience romance where they end up actually falling in love, and it was just an easy listen! Plus it was completely free to listen to, which is always a bonus.
Acting Married by Victorine E Lieske
Of course, I went for another cheesy audiobook straight after - really in my listening to books era right now. Anyway, this basically follows the same plot as the above and again I thoroughly enjoyed it for a fun easy read. Cleaner meets hot actor, yadda yadda.
Mistakenly Married by Victorine E Lieske
Oh look, yet another free YouTube cheesy audiobook! This series is genuinely just so easy to listen to while you're working, cleaning, cooking etc. I loved the plot of this one - a woman has agreed to marry her online boyfriend, who she's never met, only a mix up at the airport means she marries the wrong guy... So much fun, honestly.
The Clocks by Agatha Christie
Despite my aunty being the biggest Agatha Christie fan to ever exist, and Death on the Nile being my favourite story of all time, I've not read many of her books at all. But I've joined my first ever readathon, through Ellen Catherine's patreon discord channel, and one of the prompts for the autumn readathon was murder mystery. Who better than miss Christie? I chose The Clocks and I really enjoyed it - it's a Poirot about a man who is found dead in the house of a blind woman, and the story of how he came to be there. A great read!
The Dream Home by T M Logan
T M Logan is another of my favourite thriller writers, and one of the readathon prompts was 'spooky read - horror or thriller'. While this is a psychological thriller rather than something scary, so it may be cheating slightly, it was one I wanted to read anyway. I flew through this; it follows a family who have just moved into their dream home, and the protagonist finds a hidden room at the top of the house which sets off a whole chain of events that he is desperate to get to the bottom of...
The Museum Murder by Katie Gayle
Another of the prompts is a cosy mystery, and I remembered reading another Katie Gayle book last year which fell into that genre - so I was chuffed to see this one on Kindle Unlimited. It's the second instalment of the Epiphany Bloom series and I read this in an evening because it's sooooo much fun. If you do like a cosy mystery, I'd highly recommend. We follow Pip as she starts a new job at a museum where a high-ticket item has mysteriously gone missing, and she goes on a journey to figure out what's happened!
Quarterbacks Don't Date Nerdy Girls by Clara Nielsen
I took advantage on stuff your kindle day and grabbed plenty of romance ebooks. This was one of them, and it only took me a couple of hours to read - it's a cute Canadian high school romance about, you guessed it, a quarterback who has a biiiig crush on the bookish nerdy girl. It has some really touching moments and also focuses on grief a lot as both have lost their parents, and I absolutely enjoyed this one as my little YA fix of the past few weeks.
Let me know if you've read any of these and what you thought of them!
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