There are so many books on my Goodreads TBR. I thought it might be fun for YOU to choose one of the least popular books on my to-be-read list. Help me choose a book to read by voting on the poll below. The poll ends March 24, 2024, at 8 pm EST.
* The choices this time are adult fiction novels.
Title: In the Hands of Men
Author: Gin Sexsmith
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124940489-in-the-hands-of-men
Synopsis:
“Haunted by the loss of her cousin, Delilah has curated a world of revenge—playing judge, jury, and executioner while, you know, searching for love.
Maybe murdering gives her the control she craves. Maybe it fills the gaping hole that Cedar left when she disappeared. Maybe this rage is ancestral, dating back to all of the Indigenous women before her whose cases were closed without much of a search.
Delilah’s never been caught, but as a new virus ripples through the world, devolving men into animals, she gets a little sloppy with her vigilante justice. As the world burns and society is on the brink of collapse, Delilah starts to wonder if she’s one of the monsters or simply taking her power back from the hands of men.”
Title: If You Hear Me
Author: Pascale Quiviger
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53948281-if-you-hear-me
Synopsis:
“Sliding doors open and close automatically, exit to the left, entrance to the right. Beyond it, cars go by, and pedestrians and cyclists. A large park behaves as if nothing has happened. The mirage of a world intact.
In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son Bertrand―but despite their devoted efforts, there’s no crossing the ineffable divide between consciousness and the mysterious world David now inhabits. A moving story of love and mourning, elegantly translated by Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me asks what it means to be alive and how we learn to accept the unacceptable.”
Title: When the Fireworks End
Author: Alex Lund
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52522712-when-the-fireworks-end
Synopsis:
“Tomoya is spending his last year in high school in his home town, a small fishing port a couple of hours from Tokyo, knowing that he and his best friend Ken will be going separate ways after graduation. When fate suddenly intervenes, Tomoya finds himself having to deal with an entirely new reality that will change his life forever. This is a story about a youth faced with unforeseen challenges that not only bring out the warmth of the close-knit community he lives in, but also help him discover the strength within himself.”
Title: The Disassembly of Doreen Durand
Author: Ryan Collett
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55833916-the-disassembly-of-doreen-durand
Synopsis:
“From her apartment window, Doreen Durand witnesses a horrific accident.
The police want to know what she saw. Doreen doesn’t want to tell them – or anyone. But when she runs away it’s straight into the fantastic world of the wealthy and mysterious Violet Cascade. With one rogue police officer in pursuit, and life becoming more bizarre by the day, Doreen is caught up in a surreal game of cat and mouse.”
Title: Loving the Dead and Gone
Author: Judith Turner-Yamamoto
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60182427-loving-the-dead-and-gone
Synopsis:
“A freak car crash in 1960s rural North Carolina puts in motion moments of grace that bring redemption to two generations of women and the lives they touch.
For forty years Aurilla Cutter has tended a clutch of secrets that have turned her mean. A fatal accident becomes the catalyst for the release of the passions, needs, and hurts in everyone affected by her hidden past. Darlene, a seventeen-year-old widow, struggles to reconnect with her dead husband while proving herself still alive. Soon loss and death work their magic, drawing Darlene into an unlikely affair that threatens to upend Aurilla’s family, and sets loose Aurilla’s own memories of longing and infidelity.
As Aurilla’s forbidden and heartbreaking story of love, death, and repeated loss alternates with Darlene’s, the divide of generations and time narrows and collapses, building to the unlikely collision of two women’s yearnings, which will free them both from the past. Loving the Dead and Gone is a lyrical novel that explores how both grief and love are the ties that bind.”
Click the link below to vote! The poll closes March 24, 2024 8 pm EST
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