friday favorites

carpe librum 

seize the book 

welcome book lovers. each Friday myself and my BFF Ann from Romancing the Readers

will be briefly featuring various book related topics.

we also blog together on Book Club Thursdays (aka BCT) and on Sundays (sunday spotlight).

today is friday favorites which means i get to feature a "favorite" of mine...

this book isn't out until the 28th and it's already on my favorite list for 2019 and trust me when i say - pre-order now - lucky for you, it's not a long wait!

Lily Bushwold thought she’d found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a teaching job in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the plane, she was on it.

When the gig falls through and Lily stays in Bolivia, she finds bonding with other broke, rudderless girls at the local hostel isn’t the life she wants either. Tired of hustling and already world-weary, crazy love finds her in the form she least expected: Omar, a savvy, handsome local man who’d abandoned his life as a hunter in Ayachero—a remote jungle village—to try his hand at city life.

When Omar learns that a jaguar has killed his four-year-old nephew in Ayachero, he gives Lily a choice: Stay alone in the unforgiving city, or travel to the last in a string of ever-more-isolated river towns in the jungles of Bolivia. Thirty-foot anaconda? Puppy-sized spiders? Vengeful shamans with unspeakable powers? Love-struck Lily is oblivious. She follows Omar to this ruthless new world of lawless poachers, bullheaded missionaries, and desperate indigenous tribes driven to the brink of extinction. To survive, Lily must navigate the jungle--its wonders as well as its terrors—using only her wits and resilience.

i have no words to express the depth of emotion i have for this novel. it will make you laugh, cry, cheer, and think (and then some).

it's a love story on so many different levels yet a pulse pounding thriller at the same time. 


the jungle is just as much a character in this novel as the people and every single one of my senses were on high alert/involved. 

i could say more but trust me - YOU. NEED. THIS. BOOK.  Discover it's spell on your own because in a nutshell, it's magic.

indiebound