Author: pleasantnites

Title: The New Neighbor

Author: Karen Cleveland

Genre: thriller

Thank you, NetGalley, for this book.

WOW!! I loved this book and listened to it in two days. Beth works for the CIA and has been investigating “The Neighbor,” who is a spy for Iran. However, Beth has been taken off the case, and she doesn’t know why.

But that’s not going to stop Beth. She continues investigating and begins to suspect that the woman who moved into her home, Maddie, is the spy. Everyone in her cul-de-sac has ties to the CIA, so maybe Maddie didn’t just move in for the house and its good schools.

This book was so much fun. Beth sounds like a lunatic for most of the book because she’s pulling at strings that may or may not actually exist, but don’t be fooled. Beth is much smarter than people give her credit for.

Title: The Sun Sets in Singapore

Author: Kehinde Fadipe

Genre: Literary Fiction

Thank you, NetGalley, for this book.

I had no idea what to expect with this book about three Nigerian women living in Singapore, but this story was really great, and I was captivated by their stories.

Dara is an attorney who is fighting for a partnership at her firm, but they hire a man as the new partner, so Dara has to figure out where she now fits in her world. Amaka is a banker who has an extreme spending habit. And Lillian followed her husband to the country and has lost who she is.

The story really just follows these three friends and what happens to them as they navigate their lives. None of them are following the path they expected, and the new attorney ends up impacting all three of them in very different ways. I really enjoyed this one.