The Push by Ashley Audrain

 If you are a fan of Baby Teeth , We need to talk about Kevin or The Bad Seed this book is right up your alley. 

Ashley Audrain, psychological thriller is rather sinister.  Her debut novel is multilayered, complex and will keep you on the edge of your seat. 

Blythe and her husband are expecting a child. He is over the moon but she is going into it with trepidation and fear. Women in her family have a history of not adapting well to motherhood (which is explored further in the novel). Blythe was abused as a child but she tries to put it all behind her when her daughter Violet is born. She goes into thinking she will be a good mother but it's hard to mother a child like Violet. 

Violet is difficult to love and there is something fundamentally wrong with her. Blythe is trying to push through it bu than an incident occurs that breaks the foundations of her marriage and her relationship with Violet to the core. 

Expect an emotional, raw read with flawed characters. 

The Dating Plan by Sara Desai

I am not usually a fan of Rom-Com but this book was cute and had adorable characters which made for a easy, fast yet predictable read.

Daisy runs into her High School crush, Liam at a work conference. They enter into a beneficial agreement, in which the fool both families into thinking they are dating but things do not go as planned. 

Chaos ensues, plans fail and secrets are revealed, making you like one character a lot more and another less. 

Daisy while adorable can be unlikable but eventually redeems himself. Liam oozes confidence and sex. These two characters combined have chemistry which makes the read worth it, if you are a fast reader. 

Frankly in Love by David Yoon

Frankly in Love is about Frank Li. He is a high school student who is a first generation Korean American,  who is caught between two worlds. The world of his parents and their culture and the world of being a "typical" American teen. 

Frank Li's parents only have one rule about dating and that is to date Korean and when he falls for Brit Means, his life becomes complicated. Frank and Joy (a girl who is the daughter of his parents friends) make a pact to fake date so that they can date their prospective partners in secret. Thi
s results in an unexpected (or in my case expected) turn of events.

This is an okay read and the only moment I was truly intrigued was when Frank Li's father becomes a central part to the story, which lead to me wanting to know more about the Li's and less about Frank. This is a great book to read after having read something heavy.