Year 3, week 30: You Are Not Alone / The Family Upstairs

This week's books:
Book of the Month Club books

You Are Not Alone
By Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

This week's book was my second official Book of the Month Club book. I added two other books to my second box, one a friend recommended and the other I needed for my book group.

I'm sad to say I was disappointed in this book. There were too many characters and it seemed like it was trying to be thrilling when I was just super annoyed with the main character. This whole novel kind of gives off a single white female vibe. A lonely women witnesses a suicide and then gets wrapped up with the victim’s really intense friends, and then it's supposed to become a thriller, but I just did not care!

If I'm completely honest I wouldn't recommend this book.



The Family Upstairs
By Lisa Jewell

This book came with my second Book of the Month book box. This book wasn't from the February selections, but from before I joined the Book of the Month club. One of the reasons I like this program is that you get to add previous Book of the Month books to your box for a low price.

The Family Upstairs was recommended by a friend of mine who does Book of the Month as well. She liked it so I thought I would give it a try as well. The book is a type of mystery and includes a possible cult and murder or suicide. I have always had a weird fascination with cults so I was excited to read this.

The book was fine, but I was a little let down by it, but I was super excited so maybe I was a little over jazzed. I would still recommend the book if you like mystery and multiple narrators/timelines.