Brunna's Book Club -- Tell No Lies & Keep No Secrets

Have you ever read one of those books that is so good, you just can't set it down?

I just did!

So I get a free book from the Kindle Lending Library every month. This month, I got Tell No Lies by Julie Compton

And it was so so so so good! It had everything I could ever want for: fiery romance, self-doubt, being torn between decisions, politics, lawyers, courtrooms, crimes, drama, rumors, lies, falling in love with your best friend, dealing with family issues, news exaggerating everything, and more. It was wonderful and I couldn't stop reading this legal thriller.

It's about this awesome, idealistic, believes the world is a good place prosecutor Jack Hilliard. After his boss and friend, the DA, resigns, Jack is the ideal man for the job. He also has a superb marriage with his amazing wife Claire, and has two sons, Jamie and Michael. He also has a super hot best friend, Jenny Dodson, who he just might have a thing for. He ends up falling in love with his best friend and is faced with some serious temptations and problems. Eventually, Jenny gets charged with murdering one of her clients (she's also a lawyer, but at a private firm instead) and ends up facing a super crazy trial.

It was such a good novel, that when I finished reading it and the Kindle offered to sell me the sequel, I hit buy without even checking the price.

Keep No Secrets might have had more drama and suspense than Tell No Lies had. It's four years later, Jenny has been nowhere to be seen since the end of the last book and Jack has managed to rebuild his marriage and career. Then one night he catches his son, Michael, and his son's girlfriend, Celeste, who looks so very much like the lovely Jennifer Dodson, messing around, drunk. He takes the girl home, and later on the week, finds out that she has pressed legal charges against him for raping her. Jack's life gets flipped upside down once again as he ends up on the opposite side of the law yet again and Jenny finds her way back into town, asking for his help.

So so so so good!!!! I definitely recommend it!

Also, as a P.S. I have decided that I'm going to start a sort of blog book club. So every now and then, I haven't decided how often yet, I will post a book or author that I like with a review and recommend it to you guys. Consider these two your first Brunna's Book Club novels!

Happy reading!

Bookworm

I'm a total bookworm, and I'm proud of it!

I absolutely love books. They're my best friends.

Reading to me is just like being there, living the characters' lives and going through every emotion side by side with the characters. I probably get too emotionally attached to most of my characters.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to read for pleasure as much these past couple of years because I've become increasingly busier and having less and less time to spend on leisure (Especially with all the Facebook-ing, Tweeting, and Pinterest-ing I do). But now that I have a Kindle, I have the perfect excuse to read anywhere and everywhere. No big books to lug around. No need to go to a bookstore or library for a book. No bookmarks to lose my place with. Just a tiny, skinny, little Kindle that fits so nicely in my purse that I can whip out and read at any old time. It's really convenient.

So in the less than three weeks that I've had my Kindle, I've devoured books like crazy, and that's just in my free time between working, spending time with Luis and my friends, going to parties, and travelling to Florida. So here are the 4 books I've read:

Crazy Little Thing by Tracy Brogan was the first book I read, and that was through Kindle's Lending Library. It was actually a really, really good book! I enjoyed it. It's about this lady, Sadie, who has just gotten a divorce from her cheating husband. She takes her kids to go spend the summer with her eccentric aunt Dodie and her cousins. Of course, her ex-husband causes trouble and there are lovely men for her to meet and fall in love with and everyone lives happily ever after in the end. It's an extremely good novel and I was totally hooked.

Then I bought The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri for my day at the beach. I almost finished it at the beach, but didn't finish until later on during the bus ride home. I know it's a popular book that lots of people have read, but I've only watched the movie before. I did study Jhumpa Lahiri in school this past fall semester, and loved the short stories we read by her, and I didn't remember the movie that well, so I went ahead and bought the book. It was totally worth it, and I really enjoyed it. So so so good! I usually hate books without happy endings, and this one definitely falls into my idea of a no happy ending novel. I actually don't like the ending at all to be honest, because he still ends up wife-less, but the book is very realistic and that's kudos to the author right there. I definitely recommend it if you haven't yet, even if you've watched the movie!

No and Me by Delphine de Vigan was probably my least favorite of the four. Here's another no happy ending book, but not only did it not have a happy ending, but the ending left too many questions unanswered for my taste. This novel is about a young, but very precocious girl who befriends an older girl who lives on the streets. Lou, the 13 year old girl in high school, tries her best to help No, her 18 year old homeless best friend, rehabilitate and be a normal girl again. It's quite the interesting story, and it was still pretty good even though I hated the ending with a passion.

Then there's The Unwanted Wife by Natasha Anders. I just finished this one last night, and it was so good that I tried reading some while hanging out with Luis. I read in the car while he was driving places and even woke up early so I could read before he woke up. I finally finished it after work last night. After close, I sat in my car for a good 15 minutes to end it. It was so good! The ending was completely unrealistic in my point of view, but it's nice to imagine that such beautiful happily ever afters can exist. I truly loved this story.

I also have this month's Lending Library book waiting to be read, so I can't wait to start that one soon!

Any recommendations for good books I should read??