Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.
Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson
Why I have it: Spotted on Tanya’s Best of 2017 list.
Summary: An awkward but charming child psychologist creates a utopian community where children are raised collectively – things quickly unravel.
I’m thinking: Yes – the prologue hooked me.
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Why I have it: Spotted on Janet’s 2017 Reading Bingo list.
Summary: Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman work together. They hate each other. And hate is just as strong emotion as love…
I’m thinking: No – it’s billed as the ‘2017’s funniest rom-com’ but it didn’t make me laugh.
Before Everything by Victoria Redel
Why I have it: Spotted on Susan’s Books of the Year list.
Summary: A group of women who have known each another since they were girls come together when Anna, the ‘bright spark’, enters a hospice.
I’m thinking: Yes, although will be careful with timing of reading (I don’t want it to overlap with my palliative care biography writing).
Like the sound of your ones to keep, especially the utopian one.
I’ve read The Hating Game and it’s really silly. Good idea to give it a miss.
Fairly certain I could predict the outcome from the blurb (which would be okay if there were laughs along the way but I didn’t laugh once in the sample chapters so I will give it a miss).
Thnaanks for the Redel link and I do hope you love it as much as I do when you feel you can get around to it. The Wilson’s on my radar too.
The Redel appeals – I’ve worked in a few hospices and palliative care is my favourite area to work in. The Hating Game sounds awful to me, although promoting it as 2017’s funniest rom-com makes it almost impossible to live up to the hype – if I was the author I’d be asking the publicist to rein it in a bit!
I have the Wilson on my Kindle but it had fallen way off my priority list — I’ll be interested to see if you like it. I’m also keen on the Redel.
Everyone has raved about The Hating Game … I have the audiobook and might save it for a long drive. I like silly books for that.