How on earth do you keep up with NetGalley requests and approvals!? A monthly blog post? Well it’s worth a try!
I will try to keep you updated with my NetGalley requests by sharing them with you all here. However, do keep an eye out for them in my reviews once I’ve read them because they will all feature in my Monthly Summaries!
Here is my first book request haul that have already been approved. Eeeek!
The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Downloaded on 23rd November 2017
Publication date 8th February 2018
Published by Pan Macmillan
When you read this book, you will make many assumptions.It’s about a jealous wife, obsessed with her replacement. It’s about a younger woman set to marry the man she loves. The first wife seems like a disaster; her replacement is the perfect woman. You will assume you know the motives, the history, the anatomy of the relationships. You will be wrong.
I’m looking forward to reading this as I have recently picked up a few ‘jealous wife’ type reads. This will be the first book I’ve read with dual authors so that should be very interesting!
Force of Nature – Jane Harper
Downloaded on 23rd November 2017
Publication date 8th February 2018
Published by Little, Brown Book Group UK
FIVE WENT OUT. FOUR CAME BACK…
Is Alice here? Did she make it? Is she safe? In the chaos, in the night, it was impossible to say which of the four had asked after Alice’s welfare. Later, when everything got worse, each would insist it had been them.
Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side.
The hike through the rugged landscape is meant to take the office colleagues out of their air-conditioned comfort zone and teach resilience and team building. At least that is what the corporate retreat website advertises.
Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a particularly keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing bushwalker. Alice Russell is the whistleblower in his latest case – and Alice knew secrets. About the company she worked for and the people she worked with.
Far from the hike encouraging teamwork, the women tell Falk a tale of suspicion, violence and disintegrating trust. And as he delves into the disappearance, it seems some dangers may run far deeper than anyone knew.
After reading The Dry by Jane Harper which is the first novel in the Aaron Falk series, I am curious to see how her second novel compares. You can read about The Dry in my September Summary.
Fear – Dirk Kurbjuweit
Downloaded on 22nd November 2017
Publication date 25th January 2018
Published by Orion Publishing Group
YOU’D DIE FOR YOUR FAMILY.
BUT WOULD YOU KILL FOR THEM?
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Family is everything.
So what if yours was being terrorised by a neighbour – a man who doesn’t listen to reason, whose actions become more erratic and sinister with each passing day? And those you thought would help – the police, your lawyer – can’t help you.
You become afraid to leave your family at home alone. But there’s nothing more you can do to protect them.
Is there?
I was gripped by it’s description and I do love a good domestic thriller. Hoping for a few twists and turns on this one.
Only Child – Rhiannon Navin
Downloaded on 22nd November 2017
Publication date 8th March 2018
Published by Pan Macmillan
We went to school that Tuesday like normal. Not all of us came home . . . Huddled in a cloakroom with his classmates and teacher, six-year-old Zach can hear shots ringing through the corridors of his school. A gunman has entered the building and, in a matter of minutes, will have taken nineteen lives. In the aftermath of the shooting, the close knit community and its families are devastated. Everyone deals with the tragedy differently. Zach’s father absents himself; his mother pursues a quest for justice — while Zach retreats into his super-secret hideout and loses himself in a world of books and drawing. Ultimately though, it is Zach who will show the adults in his life the way forward — as, sometimes, only a child can.
I like the fact that a child can be the center and narrator of a story rather than just portrayed as the vulnerable victim when it comes to a story that revolves around families. I’m looking forward to this one.
Shame on You – Amy Heydenrych
Downloaded on 22nd November 2017
Publication date 26th July 2018
Published by Bonnier Saffre
You think you know her . . .
Meet Holly.
Social media sensation. The face of clean eating.
Everyone loves her. Everyone wants to be her.
Or do they?
When Holly is attacked by a man she’s only just met, her life starts to spiral out of control.
Was she targeted because of her online wellness empire, or is there a darker reason behind the attack?
He seemed to know her – but she doesn’t know him.
Or does she?
What if Holly isn’t who she seems to be? What if Holly’s living a lie?
But surely we all lie a bit online, don’t we . . .?
It sounds like there could be a lot of deception within this book which really attracted me to it. The cover also drew my attention to it straight away so hopefully an exciting read.
No-one Ever Has Sex on Christmas Day – Tracy Bloom
Downloaded on 21st November 2017
Publication date 24th October 2017
Published by Bookoutre
Don’t you always plan the perfect Christmas?
Don’t you always think it will be the best one ever?
And doesn’t something always come along and screw it up?
Katy’s been stuck in the office away from her family so she wants it all: snow (fake or real), the Michael Bublé Christmas album, whatever it takes.
There’s only one thing missing as far as her husband Ben is concerned: another baby to complete their family. But Katy isn’t so sure she’s ready yet…
Ben may be playing the role of Master Elf in the pre-school nativity but he is struggling to master his own family life. With romantically-challenged friends, an ex who refuses to go away and Katy’s mum’s 64-year-old toy boy thrown into the mix, Christmas looks like it could be going off the rails… Never mind family planning, can Katy and Ben even plan to make it to the end of Christmas Day?
After having read FuelTheBlog’s review of this book, it sounded right up my street! I just wanted a feel-good Christmas story that would make me laugh. I’ve already started and I’m about 40% in – loving it!
Have you read any of these titles? What are your most recent requests from NetGalley? I’d love to hear from you!
Gaby x
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