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.
Dead Ends by Samantha Byres
Why I have it: Spotted on Insta.
Summary: All-round chaos merchant Nell Jenkins has returned to her small hometown to fulfil family duties for the mother and brother she’s barely seen since she escaped as a teen. But her homecoming isn’t the triumph it should be. A string of bad decisions follows.
I’m thinking: No.
Loved One by Aisha Muharrar
Why I have it: Saw it compared to Really Good, Actually (which I loved).
Summary: When Julia’s first-love-turned-best-friend Gabe, a musician with a cultish following, dies unexpectedly at age twenty-nine, Julia launches herself on a quest to recover the possessions he left with friends across the world. She encounters Elizabeth, Gabe’s endlessly cool ex-girlfriend. As the two women struggle to reconcile their respective claims on Gabe’s memory, can they find their way from rivalry to friendship?
I’m thinking: Yes.
The Spoon and the Sea by Rachel Caplin
Why I have it: Because of Lisa’s review.
Summary: Ashi has always lived between worlds: the Arab island of Zanzibar where he was raised by his father, and the Jewish heritage of his British mother, Rose, who left when he was a child. Now, as Rose slips into the haze of dementia, she and Ashi begin an emotional journey to trace the fragments of a life lived apart.
I’m thinking: Maybe.