The Boyfriend Project
By Farrah Rochon
This book was a Book of the Month book. I originally picked it because the book was written by an African American woman, and the story is of an African American woman web developer genius and a biracial federal agent who fall in love. It's important to keep reading books written by not only women, but women of color. It was also interesting because the heroine of the book explains that being a web/app developer is a man's world, and being an African American woman is unheard of. She explains that everything she does has to be twice as good as everyone else just to be taken seriously.
I'm glad the Book of the Month had a biracial romance written by a woman of color, but I kinda was bored while I was reading it. I've been reading really heavy reads about racism and such, so trying to read this at the same time kind of gave me whiplash. It was a real paint-by-number romance. I'd probably still recommend it, but it's utter mind fluff.
Lock Every Door
By Riley Sager
I ordered another Riley Sagar book from BOTM last month and I am dying to read it, but I want to read it with the hubby so I put that book on the back burner and listened to this book while I walked with my kids around the neighborhood.
This book is about a girl apartment sitting for three months in an old New York apartment building that has a lot of rules. It seems like a dream come true for this struggling young lady, but when her fellow apartment sitters start going missing, she gets scared. I thought I had the ending figured out but I wasn't right, and I was kinda disappointed in the ending. I would still recommend it.
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