March - Women's History Month

 

To wrap up Women's History Month, I'm featuring some backlist reads.
We Are the Brennans is an easy, quick read, TV drama style. Sunday Brennan wakes up battered in an LA hospital from a drunk driving accident which she caused. She returns home to her family & ex fiancé in New York who she left 5 years ago without a word.
There's the troubled pub, the family business, fighting brothers, and a mystery man from Sunday's past. It's the type of story that would be great to listen to and see on screen.
(Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Fiction & Nominee for Best Debut Novel 2021.)
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I enjoyed the interesting storyline, and learning about the historical time of Korean workers in Hawaii in The Picture Bride. Teenage brides were recruited for Korean men working in Hawaii from 1910-1924. The hopeful grooms, workers on sugarcane plantations, sent a pictures through a matchmaker. The picture brides wished to escape poverty and achieve prosperity & freedom in the distant land.
This new type of story was told well through the eyes of Willow. She details the arduous journey she & other brides took across the Pacific, and the disheartening realizations of starting a new life with an often deceptive stranger.
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"Floss was not concerned about the people in front of her; Floss was concerned about her followers."

Taking place in 2016 and 2051, Followers predicts a scary dystopian future with a device that has even more invasive control over users. Millennials now have dementia from all that screen time. The new screenless & soundless device works on brainwaves.

"Your followers are your friends - your very special friends. The happier & brighter you act, the more special friends you'll get.."

The main characters weren't especially likable; I smh about the circumstances they put themselves in.
Sounds creepy & isolating, this potentially true future.
"They might have had all the followers, but they were never finished chasing."
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In The Family Gathering, military man Dakota Jones takes some time to visit his siblings in small town Colorado before his next assignment. There's plenty going on here; romance, mental health, family dynamics, stalking and adoption.
I appreciate how feminism is inserted "Women really took a hit for all the same things that tended to make men look like studs" thinks Dakota. He also passes off the notion that women don't report crimes because they're afraid or just want to forget it happened. It's refreshing to see this masculine character with feminist qualities.
Although it's # 3 in Sullivan's Crossing series, I read it as a stand alone.
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Utterly disgusted. Highly offended. Deeply disgraceful. Words divorce attorneys use. Such is the language of divorce. However, The Language of Divorce isn't the downer you might expect. Hannah & Will suspect one another of cheating, it gets taken to social media, and their pending divorce becomes news. They agree to appear on a divorcing couples reality show on a beautiful secluded island. Told in multiple POVs, this novel is honest, relatable and complex. It's re-released under Their Last Chance.
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All books were won in giveaways.

Until next time, 

~Kara