Bradeigh Godfrey

I really don’t know what Colleen Hoover’s secret is. Her prose is straightforward and her plots aren’t full of twists and turns. But every single time I read one of her books, I CANNOT put it down. I think it’s the way she draws the reader right into the character’s perspective so you feel every…

This one has been a favorite of so many bookstagrammers, including several I respect and admire, that I knew I needed to get to it before the end of 2019. The story follows three generations of Palestinian-American women as they struggle to reconcile their individual desires with cultural expectations. Told in alternating points of view,…

The book opens with one of the most riveting first chapters I’ve ever read: eight-year-old Luca and his mother Lydia hiding in the shower while their entire family is slaughtered in the backyard during a family party. It’s Acapulco, Mexico, and Lydia’s husband was a journalist who reported on the corruption and violence of the…

I LOVED this story. Synopsis: One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business…