Simone and Her Books

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you’re all ready for another weekend filled with reading and possibly other things, but mostly reading. Here’s what I’ll be reading this weekend!

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

I’m such a CoHort, so I need to pay homage to my favorite romance writer. I think to date, I’ve read four Colleen Hoover books (Ugly Love, Confess, November 9, and It Ends With Us), so this will make it book number five. Here’s what it’s about:

Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.

All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people?

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

It’s finally time for me to read this book instead of telling everyone that I had. I wanted to really catch up on my Fantasy series this summer and I need to finally bite the bullet and do it. So I’m starting with an oldie that already has a movie (that failed) and a TV show (that did well, but ultimately got canceled). I’ll probably watch both after I finish it, but I need to read the first one first! Here’s some more about what’s it about:

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing — not even a smear of blood — to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know…

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

It’s also finally time for me to read some thrillers in the summer. While I definitely loved reading Carolines Kepnes’s Providence, I decided to take the advice of Abby from @crimebythebook and read The Snowman. While this is more crime fiction than thriller, I’m willing to try out anything that might be interesting and a good read. I think the last time I read crime fiction possibly was 2002 and I read one of Patricia Cornwall’s books for Forensics class. I hope this isn’t like those mass markets from over 10 years ago. Also, please don’t do the math on how old I am. Here’s more about the book:

One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day.  Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he’s received. The case deepens when a pattern emerges: over the past decade, eleven women have vanished—all on the day of the first snow. But this is a killer who makes his own rules . . . and he’ll break his pattern just to keep the game interesting, as he draws Harry ever closer into his twisted web. With brilliantly realized characters and hair-raising suspense, international bestselling author Jo Nesbø presents his most chilling case yet—one that will test Harry Hole to the very limits of his sanity.