April Book Review

Nothing like a good old sheltering in place order to help you up your reading game! I knocked out four books and two were actually free Kindle Unlimited reads! Today I’m sharing my April Book Review.

Fierce Free and Full of Fire

Amazon: No more hiding or people-pleasing up in here, sisters. No more being sidelined in your own life. It is time for us to be brave, to claim our gifts and quirks and emotions. You are set free and set up and set on fire.

NOW you can get busy doing what you were placed on this planet to do. NOW you can be honest, honest, honest about all of it, even the hard stuff, even the humiliating stuff, even the secret stuff. NOW you can walk in your convictions of faith and ask new questions unafraid. NOW you can be so free, because you are not searching for value from any source other than your own beautiful soul made piece by piece by God who adores you and is ready to get on with the business of unleashing you into this world.

My Thoughts: What a perfect time to receive this book as I was sheltering in place with all my wandering thoughts! Jen can always make me smile with her sense of humor, but her passion to inspire and push all to own their own lives and be their most authetic self, regardless if that is different from her, always fills my soul.

While I may never identify with every word, there is always encourgament and love within the pages of Jens books. She has a way of taking what you may already know about the world and yourself and causing you to pause and give it just a little more thought and attention. At the end of the day I always feel she is such a fan of anyone who can be their own authentic self and she speaks of this type of freedom and wants it for all women. Freedom of mind, spirit, body…all of it. I mean, how can you not love her when she starts her forword with “women are the baddest of bad asses and there is nothing they cannot overcome and accomplish.”

I can think of no better way to come out of our current circumstance than fierce, free and full of fire! If you are new to Jen Hatmaker, you can read my review of two of my other favorites; For the Love and Of Mess and Moxie.

Miss You

Amazon: “TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.” Tess can’t get the motto from her mother’s kitchen knickknack out of her head, even though she’s in Florence on an idyllic vacation before starting university in London. Gus is also visiting Florence, on a holiday with his parents seven months after tragedy shattered their lives. Headed to medical school in London, he’s trying to be a dutiful son but longs to escape and discover who he really is.

A chance meeting brings these eighteen-year-olds together for a brief moment—the first of many times their paths will crisscross as time passes and their lives diverge from those they’d envisioned. Over the course of the next sixteen years, Tess and Gus will face very different challenges and choices. Separated by distance and circumstance, the possibility of these two connecting once more seems slight. But while fate can separate two people, it can also bring them back together again. . . 

My Thoughts: While not quite the page turner my other fictional reads were in April, this is defintiely a sweet love story that has you rooting for Tess to find true love through the entire book. If you are looking for a more lighthearted, chick lit read I would recommend Miss You. It is currently free with kindle unlimited.

The Missing Sister

Amazon: In Paris, her twin sister has vanished, leaving behind three chilling words: Trust no one. Shayna Darby is finally coming to terms with her parents’ deaths when she’s delivered another blow. The body of her estranged twin sister, Angela—the possible victim of a serial killer—has been pulled from the Seine. Putting what’s left of her life on hold, Shayna heads to Paris. But while cleaning out Angela’s apartment, Shayna makes a startling discovery: a coded message meant for her alone…Alive. Trust no one.

My Thoughts: I was sucked in from the first page! This book was definitely a page turner for me. There were definitely many twists thrown in that kept me guessing about the true killer. For a free kindle unlimited read, The Missing Sister gets big kudos for me and it would be worth the money even if I had to pay for it!

Little Fires Everywhere

Amazon: From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.

My Thoughts: I’m positive I’m very late to the game when it comes to reading Little Fires Everywhere, but when I saw it Reese Witherspoon would be playing Mrs. Richardson in the Hulu series I really wanted to read the book first. This book held my attention with all the twist and turns and secrets uncovered. I also love when characters are developed so well I can create a mental picture of how I would see them. I’ll be interested to watch the series to see if my mental picture was even close! I loved this book and stayed in bed one Saturday until afternoon to finish it!

What are you reading lately? Have you noticed you are reading more or less right now?