Author:  Fleur Philips
Publisher: Fleur Philips                                

Page:  168
Genre: New Adult
Source:  BookSparks

Goodreads:   Eighteen-year-old Sarah McKnight has a secret. She’s in love with David Brooks. Sarah is white. David is black. But Sarah’s not the only one keeping secrets in the close-knit community of Kalispell, Montana. Her father George, who owns a local gun shop and proudly drives a truck with a Confederate flag bumper sticker, hides his own complicated past. When he discovers Sarah’s relationship, George decides to share his feelings with Alex Mackey-a lonely classmate of Sarah’s whom George has taken under his wing. As Alex embraces the power of Sarah’s father’s dark hatred, the hopes and dreams of young lives hang in the balance. In just a few short months, Sarah and David will graduate from high school and leave Kalispell for a new life together in Los Angeles. Maybe in California, they can stop hiding their love-and the other secret they share…something George McKnight-and Alex Mackey-will never accept.


Ope’s Opinion:  Knowing this book was on the shorter side, I thought it would be hard to get attached to the characters – I was wrong!  There were a lot of issues being tackled in this book.  I thought in the beginning of book that the whole issue was interracial relationships, but Fleur added pregnancy, abuse and beliefs about fire arms.  It was a lot to take in, but somehow she weaved it all in – it worked.  The ending was a unexpected.   

Rating:  Four Chairs – I like this book so much I know several friends to share it with.

Author:  Elizabeth Berg                                                  

Publisher:  Ballantine Books
Pages:  288
Genre:  Women’s Fiction
Source:  Purchased

Goodreads:   As onetime classmates meet up over the course of a weekend for their fortieth high school reunion, they discover things that will irrevocably affect the rest of their lives. For newly divorced Dorothy, the reunion brings with it the possibility of finally attracting the attention of the class heartthrob. For the ever self-reliant, ever left-out Mary Alice, it’s a chance to reexamine a painful past. For Lester, a veterinarian and widower, it is the hope of talking shop with a fellow vet—or at least that’s what he tells himself. For Candy, the class beauty, it’s the hope of finding friendship before it’s too late. As these and other classmates converge for the reunion dinner, four decades melt away: desires and personalities from their youth reemerge, and new discoveries are made. For so much has happened to them all. And so much can still happen.


Ope’s Opinion:  I had a hard time getting interested in the present lives of the characters that would be going to a class reunion.  It was hard to believe that many people were single and interested in going back to see what everyone else would look like.

                                        


Rating:  Three Chairs – I like the book enough to suggest it to a friend or two.