April Wrap Up

Hi friends! I know it's already close to mid-May but I don't think it's too late to share what I read last month! April wasn't as great of a reading month as I had hoped, I really wanted to read a lot more than I got around to. I ended up reading eight books in April, which isn't bad but I was hoping to get closer to ten if I could.

1. Float Plan by Trish Doller

• ARC

• Content warning for: Suicide, suicide description, depression

• Grief

• Amputee rep

• Beautiful and heartbreaking

2. Where It All Lands by Jennie Wexler

• ARC

• Jewish OwnVoices rep

• Grief

• Beautiful and heartbreaking

• Divorce, loss of a parent

3. A Pho Love Story by Loan Le

• Vietnamese OwnVoices

• Feuding Pho restaurants

• Romeo and Juliet vibes

• So amazing and fun

4. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado

• Dominican OwnVoices

• Fat rep

• Content warning for fatphobia, loss of a parent

• Learning to love yourself

• Diverse cast of characters

• So amazing

5. A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey

• Cuban OwnVoices

• Reread on audio

• Amazing narrator

6. The Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland

• Jewish OwnVoices

• Catskills Jewish hotel

• Multigenerational

• Amazing dialogue

• Point of View from many different characters

• ARC

7. Heart on a Leash by Alanna Martin

• eARC

• Jewish OwnVoices

• Alaska setting

• Family feud

• Super cute dogs

• So much fun

• Loved this

8. Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot

• Reread on audio

• I love that Anne Hathaway did the narrations

• I forgot how much Lilly sucks

Have you read any of these? What is your favorite book you've read in April?