published: 2018
pages: varies. takes about 3 hrs to read all 4.
read: 1/24-25/2019
rating: 1. ugh // 2. W O A H !!!! // 3. <3 // 4. UGH
book: 5-8 in 2019 (but tbh, i feel like this is cheating)
MY THOUGHTS
gotta love amazon prime
(not really. but here we are)
apparently, even if you share your account, you get the benefits of being the actual member so every now and then you get free reads. i happen to get this little set of 4 that also included free audio versions. THAT was the only reason i downloaded them.
apparently it's to promote (or in part of, with...or something with...) THIS BOOK. which is even funnier because i saw said book in one of those little take one leave one libraries and i took it with the interest of eventually reading it.
plot twist: I'm not going to read it and I'm actually taking it back to where i got it from when I'm in the area.
anyway, here's a little bit more about these 4 stories.
1/24/19
1. THE THIRD MAN
Mari Sheriar
a woman who didn't want a baby cause she already had one and realized they're too much work until she goes to a friends play and realizes she wants one.
she can't get pregnant for 3 years
does fertility treatments and unfortunately ends up having a miscarriage.
after speaking to her son, NOT HER HUSBAND, they decide to adopt.
they get chosen, the mother has 3 potential fathers, one signs the baby away, the other is a drifter and the third is a white supremacist who on the last day of his decision whether to keep or sign the baby away decides he will fight for him.
in the end, turns out the father is the drifter that was nowhere to be found.
my only thing with this book is: how are you going to decided to finally choose adoption with your son and not your own husband. she legit came up with a plan with her son to convince her husband.
i feel like that's something they should have navigated with her husband. it's a huge life changing decision and as a couple they should have explored that together not something he should have been talked into by his wife and son.
other than that, i guess it was convenient for Frank to not be the father. makes the story go faster.
although, some other things about him were mentioned that were not taking care of and were kind of disturbing. (Ex: the age difference.)
3. BLACK SHEEP
Rory Scholl
98% about his grandmother and I LOVED IT!!!
i still have 2 more stories to go but this one is my favorite.
it's mostly about how he and his grandma were both the black sheep in the family and the bond they built.
i loved this story and i loved Evelyn.
and i think his parents are a huge bag of dicks for not telling him UNTIL 8 MONTHS LATER that she had passed away. (although, yes, he could have called and kept in touch like that.)
and i think his mom is an ever bigger bag of dicks for judging her own mother and the way she chose to live her life.
LONG LIVE EVELYN!!!!!!
1/25/19
2. IDENTITY THIEF
Rachel Rosenthal
hoooly crap.
this one was sooo good.
basically, homegirl's identity gets stolen a crazy amount of times. like what!?
and then its about re-self discovery.
and because i can, spoilers!:
she met this dude in hs who wanted to date her but she wasn't into him. she left and he told her he'd win her. she comes back, he cleaned up and she was down.
they moved away, dated for 2 years she thought that because she was only 19 she should see more of the world so they did but they still hung out. they get back together, someone steals her wallet, she reports it and for the next amount of years her money keeps getting stolen.
she doesn't tell anyone. not her parents or her friends and she becomes isolated.
but the entire time he is there for her and picks up all the "slack" for lack of a better word.
he works and pays the bills and does everything for them.
she breaks down for the last time after losing her last cashier check only to find out that her mans had cashed it at the bank to put a down payment for their apt. she confronts him, he tells her about his condition and promises never to lie.
story, story, story...he proposes to her and even though she doesn't feel right, she goes along with an engagement.....blah, blah, blah, she finally gets a good-ish job and so she pays for the rent this one month. time passes, she gets a call from the landlord and low and behold, they owe him $13,000!!!!
long ass story short, he was stealing all her money, he never had his good as job, who knows where he went when he went away for work and....this was actually his second time doing it.
you kinda know what's going on but its anticlimactic and then BOOM! you get it all at once.
this one was really good!
4. TWO HENRY'S
Kevin Allison
this was the last one i heard in the series and probably my least favorite. erm, well the least one i connected with.
it's about him being a little kid realizing he's gay, falling in love with his best friend, losing that friendship once he tells him the truth to i guess becoming friends again.
its not that i don't care for that topic (s) i just didn't care for this story. it didn't keep me interested.
it was only about an hours and some minutes of a listen and with 34 minutes left, i was ready to DNF it.
but i mean, what else was i really doing at work.
i just stuck it out.
anyway, this is a really cool feature on amazon reads.
...and im currently working on a another set of 6 so we'll see how those go.
thanks for reading!
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