All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was such a good book. Nina is married to a man who sold his tech company for a lot of money. They are living the life, so she thinks. He’s successful, she’s involved in philanthropic projects, and their son has just been accepted into Princeton.

Then her perfect son makes a bad decision which victimizes a scholarship student at his tony private school. The word, and the photo, get around fast and Nina’s world stars to fall apart.

The father of the girl, Lyla, is a carpenter. His wife is an alcoholic who left him to raise their daughter alone. His whole life revolves around her and when he sees what has happened, he wants someone to pay.

This book is well written, as all of Emily Giffin’s books are. The storyline sucked me right in and I couldn’t put it down!

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The Not So Perfect Mother by Kerry Fisher
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book! Kind of Cinderella-like and I love it when the good girl wins.

Maia is a house cleaner. She has two kids with a lout, Colin, who didn’t even have enough motivation to marry her. He’s unemployed, drinks, gambles, and sleeps around. Meanwhile, Maia is trying hard to make a better life for them.

One of Maia’s cleaning clients dies and leaves her enough money and the direction to put her kids in a fancy private school. They begin to thrive in the school but with the associated fees for uniforms, etc. Maia just can’t keep her head above water. But, in the end, she prevails through some unexpected twists in the story.

This story, while sad in some spots, I’d also sweet and very funny. Two thumbs up! Loved it.

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Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

OMG I LOVED THIS BOOK! Dark, it was very dark and completely unexpected. I couldn’t put it down.

At first I kept being reminded that it is a modern day book every time I’d read, “let’s take a selfie”. There was something about it that made me feel like it was written about an earlier time.

Lavinia is a wealthy New York party girl and Louise is a poor girl from New Hampshire that’s just trying to get by working a bartending job, tutoring SAT students, and hoping to be a writer.

They become very close friends and then the story takes off and the twist and are amazing.

I’ve never read a book like this before. I would give it more than five stars if I could.

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