book club thursday ~reading challenge










Welcome Readers

My name is Cyn and each week we (me and my BFF Ann from  Romancing the Readers) blog all about books and book related topics on something we call Book Club Thursday(BCT).  Learn more about me and BCT here


Our feature today is:



Super fun and should be easy weeks where we can read any book that meets a challenge listed below: 


READING CHALLENGES

Read a book published before 2010
Read a book published in the month (not year) you were born
Read a book set in your home state
Read a book with a cover you don’t like
Read a book you once gave up on
Read a book with a clever title
Read a new to you author
Start a new series
Read a hardcover
Read a trade
Read a “small-town” romance
Read a book with a favorite trope
Read a historical set anywhere but the USA
Read a book you keep meaning to read
Read a book that taught you something
Read a Trifecta book (sounds, cover, title must all be same theme)


Anger Management (a book that PISSED you off at some point)
Anything Goes (read ANYTHING you want)
Just Because (you read this “just because”…state the reason)
Bird- Beast – Fish (atypical animals are part of the story)
Land-Sea-Sky (features bodies of water, mountains, planes etc)
Double Dip (can re- do any challenge)
An Apple a Day (medical main character(s))
Recommend By (say who / what )
I Tried, But… (one you couldn’t finish and why)
Second Chances (an author you are giving a “second” chance to)
Hot for Teacher (main character(s)is a teacher)
Read a historical set in the USA
The Great Outdoors (main character(s) work outdoors)
AKA (author with a pseudonym)
BOO! ( book with a ghost)
Survivors (books with hard subject matter)


* completed challenges 


My pick for October: 


read a new to you author


I can't say how fair this challenge pick is because this author only has two books...however I will say that her first book(The Party) was on my buy list last year but I never bought it (not even in the trade re-release)so maybe I can slide a bit LOL 




Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat.

A stay-at-home mom whose troubled son is her full-time job, she thought that the day he got accepted into the elite Forrester Academy would be the day she started living her life. Overweight, insecure, and lonely, she is desperate to fit into Forrester’s world. But after a disturbing incident at the school leads the other children and their families to ostracize the Metcalfes, she feels more alone than ever before.

Until she meets Kate Randolph.

Kate is everything Frances is not: beautiful, wealthy, powerful, and confident. And for some reason, she’s not interested in being friends with any of the other Forrester moms—only Frances. As the two bond over their disdain of the Forrester snobs and the fierce love they have for their sons, a startling secret threatens to tear them apart.

Because one of these women is not who she seems. Her real name is Amber Kunik. And she’s a murderer.



This was a fast paced book that was hard to put down and even though  it was completely (at least for me) (mostly)easy to figure out, it was still brilliant and creepy in it's own way.

Oh, and I now have another new favorite insult word : cuntyness!  LOL 

But I digress...

There's such a sense of sadness and surprising depth for a novel that doesn't quite fit into just one genre; which in and of itself is also plain brilliant.

One of my favorite things about this book is that Ms Harding leads you into a few directions regarding plot points but largely leaves  it up to you to make up your own mind. 

I will admit to wishing for a few extra pages from another characters point of view at the end but that would then mess with the whole statement I just made above LOL 

On a side note, I plan on seeking out Ms Harding's first novel now too!











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