ROMANCE“ SAY YOU’ LL REMEMBER ME” BY ABBY JIMENEZ
“ WILD DARK SHORE” BY CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY
SCIENCE FICTION“ THE MEMORY COLLECTORS” BY DETE MESERVE
Lose yourself in a nook with a book
Spring is finally here and it’ s the perfect time of year to sit out on the patio or in a hammock with a good book. Here then are several must read suggestions from the Times-Review staff to help you get started.
ROMANCE“ SAY YOU’ LL REMEMBER ME” BY ABBY JIMENEZ
There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes— all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there’ s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong …
... unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date— possibly the best in living history— Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be.
HISTORICAL FICTION
“ WILD DARK SHORE” BY CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’ s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty of life here, isolation has taken its toll on the Salts. Raff, 18 and suffering his first heartbreak, can only find relief at his punching bag; Fen, 17, has started spending her nights on the beach among the seals; 9-year-old Orly, obsessed with botany, fears the loss of his beloved natural world; and Dominic can’ t stop turning back toward the past, and the loss that drove the family to Shearwater in the first place.
Then, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore. As the Salts nurse the woman, Rowan, back to life, their suspicion gives way to affection, and they finally begin to feel like a family again. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting her heart, begins to fall for the Salts, too. But Rowan isn’ t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater.
What would you do if you could spend an hour in your past? Four strangers in the beach town of Ventura, California are about to find out.
Elizabeth aches for one more precious hour with her son who died in a senseless accident. Andy is desperate to find his first love who vanished after a whirlwind romance. Logan craves the rush of surfing and mountain climbing,
SCIENCE FICTION“ THE MEMORY COLLECTORS” BY DETE MESERVE
yearning to reclaim the freedom he lost after a misstep landed him in a wheelchair. Brooke is looking for an hour of relief from the guilt of an unforgivable mistake.
Enter Aeon Expeditions, the groundbreaking time travel invention of Mark Saunders— which allows some lucky clients the chance to spend an hour in their past. Even though Aeon’ s technology ensures time travel can’ t alter the future, all four clients, including Mark’ s ex-wife Elizabeth, yearn to revisit the hour that changed their lives forever.
But when their“ hour” extends beyond 60 minutes, they find themselves stranded in the past. As their paths intertwine unexpectedly, they unearth shocking secrets hidden in the shadows of their shared pasts. All their lives were shattered the same night on a secluded highway by the beach.
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