Fat Girl on a Plane by Kelly deVos
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book! Cookie Vonn is a high school senior who is overweight. She dreams of going to Parsons to become a fashion designer after college.

There are two timelines in the book. One begins when she’s just started to lose weight. The other is after the weight is lost and she starts into her design career and college. I couldn’t put this book down. Cookie is one you want to cheer for. Ultimately she loses 199 pounds and I loved watching her grow through the story.

Excellent story!

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The Glitch by Elisabeth Cohen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was a strange book. I couldn’t decide if I liked it or not. I for sure didn’t like Shelley who is the CEO of a tech company. I kept waiting for her to get a clue that life was about more than work. The book starts out with she and her husband, both on their phones about work, losing their daughter on the beach while they’re vacationing. I was like, are you kidding me? Neither of them can put the phone down to look for their DAUGHTER?

But, the book was interesting enough to finish. It was just strange but I wanted to see where the strange went.

A very interesting reading experience.

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The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have long been a fan of Mary Kay Andrews and I was excited to read this book. While it was very different from her previous books, I absolutely loved it.

The story is twofold; one storyline in the present day and one from 1941 giving the backstory of the girls of the High Tide Club. The High Tide Club was formed when the four girls were younger and consisted of Josephine, Millie, Ruth and Varina. In the current day, only Varina and Josephine are still alive and Josephine is on her deathbed and hopes to make things right between herself and her friends or their heirs.

Josephine has a large home on a private island off the coast of Georgia. The state wants to take it away from her to make into a state park. The storylines connect with her hiring of Brooke, Millie’s granddaughter, to be her attorney in the matter. The friends had a falling out over the years but Brooke doesn’t know what it was about and that’s part of the mystery.

I loved the two timelines and how they worked together. I loved the characters and the setting. This is a really good book and I highly recommend it.

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