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. This week, all three are new releases that have caught my eye.

Crushing by Genevieve Novak

Summary: Serial monogamist Marnie has spent a decade twisting herself into different versions of the ideal girlfriend. Now she’s swearing off relationships for good. Then she meets Isaac: the only man who has ever truly got her. But he’s got someone else.

I’m thinking: No

Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas

Summary: In the summer after finishing university, a young woman is on holiday in an isolated coastal town when she meets Jude, a local man twenty years her senior. Finding herself pulled to him, she begins losing herself in the simple rhythms of his everyday life. Their relationship deepens, but the arrival of Maeve, a friend from Jude’s past, threatens to rock their newfound intimacy.

I’m thinking: Yes.

Girl in a Pink Dress by Kylie Needham

Summary: Frances is an artist living a quiet life in a remote mountain town in NSW, far away from the Sydney art world she once knew. When an invitation arrives from a former lover to attend his exhibition at a state gallery, Frances is plunged back into the past, where a single irrevocable act changed the course of her story.

I’m thinking: No.