1. Bookish And the Beast by Ashley Poston
The third in the "Once Upon A Con" series sees Starfield Villain Vance Reigns shuffled off to the middle of nowhere to get out of the media's crosshairs after yet another screwup. There he meets the awkward heroine, Rose, who unwittingly walks into the house where he's staying and accidently destroys a valuable 1st edition Starfield book. To pay it off, she begins to work for Vance and his handler, organizing the house's library, and, predictably, she realizes Vance was the masked guy she met at the previous year's convention that she'd begun to fall for.
Overall, a very young adult rom-com book and not my favorite in the series. It totally takes place outside of the confines of a convention, which was the big draw for me when I decided to give the series a try. Especially within the restrictions of a pandemic and lockdowns and quarantining, I was missing that well-captured feel to a convention that the previous two books had. Plus, literally everything about the book (down to the original owner of the destroyed Starfield novel) was entirely too predictable for me.
2. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Technically speaking, I listened as my husband read it to the kids.
Percy Jackson attracts trouble. And it isn't until he winds up at Camp Halfblood that he discovers that not only are the Greek Gods real, but also still actively producing demigods with mortals...and that he is one of them. Now he has to help prevent a war of the Olympians (who reside on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building now) by finding the stolen Lightening Bolt of Zeus.
A fun read for a young adult book. I'm a Greek mythology geek, so I get to silently geek out and predict each new monster and god as they are introduced. The kids are loving the series too!
3. Charlotte's Web by EB White
I read the old classic of Zuckerman's Famous Pig to my girls. They hated how sad the ending was. But it brought me right back to reading it when I was maybe just about their age.
