Baby Teeth Giveaway!

EXCITING news from the Paper Posse!  The amazing publishing team at St Martin's Press has sent me THREE copies of Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage to giveaway to my book-loving friends!  

This book kept popping up on my watchlist for best summer reads of 2018 and promises a dark and twisty ride (I'm a sucker for dark and twisty).  So I requested a galley copy (Which I started reading last night – watch this space for a full review) and the publisher offered to send me some hard copies to share. 

Here is your chance to read it before it hits the stands on July 17th.  Leave a comment below with your email address and the title of the book you are most looking forward to this summer and I will choose a random winner on May 31st! 

May the odds be ever in your favor.

  

Synopsis: (via Goodreads)

Sweetness can be deceptive. 

Meet Hanna.

She’s the sweet-but-silent angel in the adoring eyes of her Daddy. He’s the only person who understands her, and all Hanna wants is to live happily ever after with him. But Mommy stands in her way, and she’ll try any trick she can think of to get rid of her. Ideally for good.

Meet Suzette.

She loves her daughter, really, but after years of expulsions and strained home schooling, her precarious health and sanity are weakening day by day. As Hanna’s tricks become increasingly sophisticated, and Suzette's husband remains blind to the failing family dynamics, Suzette starts to fear that there’s something seriously wrong, and that maybe home isn’t the best place for their baby girl after all. 

Laura and Emma by Kate Greathead

I have been in a reading slump - not in terms of quantity but in terms of quality.  I have been gravitating more toward more literary fiction so I was excited to have been granted a digital copy of Laura and Emma by Kate Greathead from Netgalley and Simon & Schuster Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

The story started off interesting with Laura, a person of means who makes a choice to live modestly with her unplanned daughter.  As a single mom, I appreciated the choices that she had to make to find ways to make ends meet, however, the fact that she did come from wealth and had access to round the clock help and a guaranteed if needed dulled that camaraderie between myself and the main character somewhat.  As a result, it took me a long time to finish this book.

I can't fault the writing which was stylized and descriptive and made me feel the time period with the emergence of the AIDS epidemic and the changing view of the ability of single women to support themselves and their own freedom.  I wish the focus has been more on the relationship between Laura and Emma.  There seemed to be some disconnect in their relationship and I was expecting more given the title.

I recommend this book for your next book club pick as I'm sure that different women would have a great time discussing their perspectives on the story and the time.  This was a solid 3.5 star read for me.