Landline is different from what I expected: first of all it’s an adult book which I only realized when I started it, but this is totally my fault and also not a bad thing. I was due for an adult book. And, unlike her usual contemporary reads, this one has a bit of a paranormal vibe to it. I’m not sure how I felt about this at first, I loved the mind-f*ck nature of it, but it has an element that very rarely impresses me [time-travel], so I was afraid of the direction it was going in. In the end, though, I can say I quite enjoyed the story. It has a bit of a fairy-tale quality to it, so have to go into it with an open mind, but…
Fresh Batch (New Releases July 6th – 12th)
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Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.
Flavor of the week:
Landline
Rainbow Rowell
Publication date: July 8th 2014
by St. Martin’s Press
Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems besides the point now.
Maybe that was always besides the point.
Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her — Neal is always a little upset with Georgie — but she doesn’t expect to him to pack up the kids and go home without her.
When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything.
That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts . . .
Is that what she’s supposed to do?
Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?
Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *
– Starbreak (Starglass #2) by Phoebe North [Purchase]
– Until We Fly (Beautifully Broken #4) by Courtney Cole
– The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day [Purchase]
– Boomerang (Boomerang #1) by Noelle August [Purchase]
– The Promise (The ‘Burg #5) by Kristen Ashley [Purchase]
– Four: The Initiate: A Divergent Story (Divergent 0.2) by Veronica Roth [Purchase]
– Four: The Son: A Divergent Story (Divergent 0.3) by Veronica Roth [Purchase]
– Four: The Traitor: A Divergent Story (Divergent 0.4) by Veronica Roth [Purchase]
– Four: A Divergent Story Collection (Divergent 0.1 – 0.4) by Veronica Roth [Purchase]
– The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling #1) by Erika Johansen [Purchase]
– Don’t Try to Find Me by Holly Brown [Purchase]
– The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1) by Mary E. Pearson [Purchase]
– Earthquake (Earthbound #2) by Aprilynne Pike [Purchase]
– Midnight Thief (Midnight Thief #1) by Livia Blackburne [Purchase]
– California by Edan Lepucki [Purchase]
– Hudson (Fixed #4) by Laurelin Paige [Purchase]
– Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian [Purchase]
– Idols (Icons #2) by Margaret Stohl [Purchase]
– Unravel (Linked #2) by Imogen Howson [Purchase]
– The Sweet Spot: A Novel by Stephanie Evanovich [Purchase]
– Wild by Alex Mallory [Purchase]
– Embers & Ash (Cold Fury #3) by T.M. Goeglein [Purchase]
– A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories #3) by Chris Colfer [Purchase]
– Where Silence Gathers (Some Quiet Place #2) by Kelsey Sutton [Purchase]
– The Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe [Purchase]
– Through to You by Lauren Barnholdt [Purchase]
– Demon Derby by Carrie Harris [Purchase]
– The Half Life of Molly Pierce by Katrina Leno [Purchase]
– Thirty Sunsets by Christine Hurley Deriso [Purchase]
– Nowhere but Here by Renée Carlino [Purchase]
– Zom-B Clans (Zom-B #8) by Darren Shan [Purchase]
– The Defiant (The Forsaken #3) by Lisa M. Stasse [Purchase]
– Land of Love and Drowning: A Novel by Tiphanie Yanique [Purchase]
– More Than Forever (More #4) by Jay McLean [Purchase]
– My Hunger (Inside Out #3.2) by Lisa Renee Jones [Purchase]
– In Deep by Terra Elan McVoy [Purchase]
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