The Book Bag: Perfectly Famous

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Monday, June 15, 2020

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? June 15, 2020

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Take care. Stay safe and healthy everyone.

And remember to wash those hands!!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Devil Days in Deadwood
(Deadwood, #11)
by Ann Charles
This is such a fun series! I love it!! 💖

Sweet Hollow Women
by Holly Tierney-Bedord
Narrated by Scott Cluthe

What I recently finished

We Came Here to Shine
by Susie Orman Schnall
Pub date 6/16
My thoughts will be posted on Wednesday.

Perfectly Famous
by Emily Liebert
You can read my thoughts here.

Clock Dance
by Anne Tyler
Narrated by Kimberly Farr

What I am going to read next

Finding Adley
by Leah van de Berkt

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Perfectly Famous by Emily Liebert ~ My Thoughts #PerfectlyFamous #NetGalley

Perfectly Famous by Emily Liebert
Paperback and e-book, 320 pages
Published June 2nd 2020 by Gallery Books

As a mother and a famous author, Ward DeFleur has it all. She lives in a beautiful estate in picture-perfect Connecticut, along with her teenage daughter, Stevie, where nothing can go wrong. Until, one night, when Stevie is brutally murdered and Ward’s entire world is shattered. Consumed by panic and grief, Ward vows never to put pen to paper again.

Enter Bree Bennett.

Bree is a recently-divorced, former-journalist-cum-housewife, desperate to fill her days with something other than Pilates classes and grocery shopping. So she decides to start writing for the town newspaper. What begins as Bree’s effort to tell Ward’s tragic narrative turns into a fixation with finding her favorite author. Unfortunately, Ward doesn’t want to be found. Even worse, Stevie’s killer is still on the loose…

This harrowing tale of one woman’s infatuation and another woman’s fear is full of explosive surprises, perfect for fans of The Night Olivia Fell and Then She Was Gone.

My thoughts about Perfectly Famous ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first line.)

First line—"Fame is like a flame. A small flourish of light that's ignited with good intentions and kindled with aggressive aspirations."

Perfectly Famous has two great main characters, Ward and Bree. Even though their lives intersect briefly at a book signing at the beginning of the book, they later become entwined when Bree decides to write a feature article about Ward's disappearance from the public. Secrets are uncovered and people's true selves are revealed.

This was a story full of surprises and an twist at the end that I didn't see coming. I knew that there was at least one bad person in the story, I just wasn't able to figure out which one it was going to be. And the ending made my jaw drop. Seriously, what just happened?

I read a couple of Emily's early books but not anything recently. I love the direction she is taking with her writing and I definitely need to go back and read the rest of her books.

I received and ARC of Perfectly Famous from NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.

About the author

Emily Liebert is the USA Today Bestselling Author of seven books.

Perfectly Famous, her newest novel, was released on June 2, 2020. Prior to that, Pretty Revenge published on July 2, 2019. Both with Gallery/Simon& Schuster.

Her first narrative non-fiction book, Facebook Fairytales, is available across the globe.

In 2012, Emily wrote her debut novel, You Knew Me Then, which published on September 3, 2013. Her second novel, When We Fall, published on September 2, 2014. Those Secrets We Keep, her third novel, released on June 2, 2015, and her fourth novel, Some Women, came out on April 5, 2016, all with Penguin Random House.

Emily is featured often in the press, by outlets such as: Today Show, The Rachael Ray Show, Anderson Cooper, FOX News, Good Day New York, The Couch, Oprah Radio, Martha Stewart Radio, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, InStyle, OK!, Nylon, Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s World, WWD, Woman’s Day, The New York Post, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, and The Huffington Post.

She has also served as a spokesperson for Microsoft, appearing on TV and radio stations nationwide.

Connect with Emily

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads

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