Book Review: The Teacher by Freida Mc Fadden

 About

Lesson #1: Trust no one.

Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except…

Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.

Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says.

But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet…

My Thoughts

Wow!!! Jus Wow!! That twist at the end...I didn't see that coming.

This was my first time reading this author. Her books are everywhere and now I know why. I think this style of writing can grip anyone even if someone does not like reading or if they are just getting into thriller books.

I could not put this down. I needed to see what would happen at the end.

In The Teacher we meet 16 year old Addie who is having a hard time adjusting after a scandalous affair involving a teacher surfaced the previous school year where her Math teacher was replaced by Eve Bennett. Eve is tough, and is much different from her English teacher husband Nate.

Addie, upon joining a poetry club at school gets very close to Nate which turns out to have deadly consequences. Eve is at the centre of it all.

A nail biting drama, The Teacher will have you at the edge of your seat literally.

Book Review: This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan

About

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.

But there is no time to pout or sulk, or even grieve the life she lost. She's too busy keeping a roof over her daughters' heads and food on the table. And in the process of saving them all, Soledad rediscovers herself. From the ashes of a life burned to the ground, something bold and new can rise.

But then an unlikely man enters the picture—the forbidden one, the one she shouldn't want but can't seem to resist. She's lost it all before and refuses to repeat her mistakes. Can she trust him? Can she trust herself?

After all she's lost . . .and found . . .can she be brave enough to make room for what could be?

My Thoughts

When you finish reading a book and you start listening to the playlist immediately after you know the book means business. I absolutely loved everything about this book.

In This Could Be Us we meet Soledad Barnes, a married suburbian housewife living what most may have called a dream life. Nice house, husband, three girls. It all comes crashing down when Sol's husband gets in trouble for something unthinkable, all because of Judah Cross the new mysterious accountant at CalPot the firm that Edward works at.

Soledad's world is suddenly turned upside down. She is left to pick up the pieces in more ways than one. Meanwhile Judah Cross, a single dad with a complicated life with his autistic sons takes a sudden interest in Soledad and the rest...... you will have to read.

This was a captivating story, romantic and also very enlightening on a variety of topics, most important self love.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend.

 

WE DID IT!!!! (TGR is among the 25 Best Caribbean Book Blogs)

 

Hello readers,

When I began blogging a few years ago, I was doing it simply for fun, since I love reading and wanted to share that passion with others. Now some three years later, 

I am pleased to announce that Trini Girl Reads is now in the top twenty five (25) best Caribbean Blogs on the internet. 

I would like to thank Feedspot for this honour and most importantly I want to thank all the readers of the blog because without you I would be nothing.

Here is the link to view the TOP 25 Caribbean Book Blogs List. 

25 Best Caribbean Book Blogs and Websites

Happy Reading!!!

From Trini Girl Reads

Book Review: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

 

About:

A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.

Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.

The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.

Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.

Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.

My Thoughts

This story kept me interested from beginning to end. The end had me quite emotional too. SA Crosby is an author to watch.

In Razorblade Tears we meet Ike and Buddy Lee, two fathers who become bonded by revenge for the death of their sons. These fathers sought revenge as a plaster to a sore, that being the unwillingness of both dads to accept that their sons were homosexual.

Ike and Buddy Lee also were also former prisoners so you know that their attempt at avenging these guys' deaths may lead them down a dangerous path.

This book was so full of action that you felt as though you were watching a really good movie. I loved how creatively Cosby dealt with loss and grief in this book and also regret. I think that avenging their sons' deaths was partly out of regret at how they treated their sons.

This is worth the hype. Indeed a masterpiece