Month: June 2015

Hayley and Charlotte, from Water Painted Dreams and Colours and Carousels respectively, have set up The Sassy Books Book Club and since the book they chose for the first month, I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson, was already on my to read list I figured I would join in.

I’ll Give You the Sun tells the story of twins Noah and Jude who are incredibly close until jealousy and tragedy tear them apart.

The chapters alternate between 13 year-old Noah’s perspective and 16 year-old Jude’s. Part coming of age story; part family drama, with a side of the weird and fantastical.

Advance Reader Copy (ARC) via Netgalley included.

Daniel and Laura are travelling Europe, on their trip of a lifetime, one last adventure before they settle down and prepare to have children.

Their travels end abruptly when they are thrown off a train in the middle of nowhere, in Romania, after having their tickets and passports stolen.

They need to get home, but to do that they must get to the nearest town. This takes them along the train tracks through a forest, a journey that changes their lives forever.

Advance Reader Copy (ARC) via Netgalley included.

Vanessa Lafaye’s debut novel, Summertime (published as Under a Dark Summer Sky in some countries) is a fictionalised story set against the backdrop of real events. Namely, the 1935 Labour Day Hurricane that devastated some of the Florida Keys.

Heron Key (a place of the author’s own invention) is a small, segregated community where lynchings are common place. It is a town affected by the Depression and the remains of World War One. There are deeply held resentments between those who left to fight the war and those who stayed behind.