The anonymous Instagrammer also starts blackmailing her into completing items on her secret to-do list. Shortly before graduation, the journal goes missing and an anonymous Instagrammer starts posting photos of her entries online, much to Quinn's mortification. This is such a good contemporary YA romance! Quinn keeps a journal of highly sensitive, super private lists. Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney This is a sweet, charming, heartfelt romance.Ĥ. Will doesn't want to live there and intends to fix it up as an Airbnb, but these plans clash with the desires of the apartment's elderly residents and Nora Clarke, the girl whose voice he heard all those years ago. Flash forward several years and Will has inherited his uncle's apartment. Near-sighted Will hears a girl but can't see her, and he has never forgotten the sound of her laughter or voice. Is it possible to fall in love at first sound? That's what happens to young Will Sterling when he and his mother visit an estranged uncle at his apartment building. A Certain Hunger recounts pivotal moments in Dorothy Daniels's double life, juxtaposing a satire of foodie culture and the media industry with graphic descriptions of violence. The entire time I was reading this novel about a female food critic who's secretly a serial killer and a cannibal, I couldn't help thinking of that infamous Hannibal Lecter quote ('I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti'). I loved Daisy as a character the descriptions of her workplace ring true to my experiences in software, and her love of Marvel and quirky sense of fashion made me wish I could be friends with her in real life.Ģ. As it happens, Liam is in line to inherit a family-owned distillery if he gets married by a certain date and agrees. Daisy Patel is a software engineer fed up with her family's matchmaking attempts, so she enlists the help of Liam Murphy, her brother's friend and her childhood crush, to play her fake fiance. Sara Desai's second novel puts a charming spin on the fake relationship trope with an appealing and diverse cast of characters. JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser.

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