GoodReads Monday

This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.

Happy Monday! I hope you all survived your weekend and are having a good start to your week. This week’s pick is a romance with a bit of a supernatural twist. It sounds interesting and I am willing to give it a try. It comes out in July.

One Year Ago in Spain by Evelyn Skye

Publication Date: July 30, 2024

Summary from Goodreads:

Claire Walker has always had her life in perfect order, including her high-powered job at one of Manhattan’s top corporate law firms. Yet the one thing she cannot seem to find is a perfect love to complete it, until fate pushes Matías de León into her path. Matías is a Spanish artist who is everything that Claire is not: free-spirited and creative, chaos to her order. She falls for him, hard—and he for her.

A year later, however, Claire begins to question everything about their relationship. How can they possibly work long-term when they’re so different? Might it be best to end it before they are both in too deep?

Then tragedy strikes while Matías is visiting family, leaving him gravely wounded in a Madrid hospital. And when Claire drops everything to race to his side, she finds she is the only one who can see and talk to Matías’s soul, detached from his comatose body. But that soul has no memories of his year in New York, of her, or of their relationship. Claire soon realizes that in order to lure Matías back to his body, she will have to convince him to fall in love with her all over again. But can lightning strike twice? Can the same magic that brought them together once do so again?

I enjoyed Ms. Skye’s last book, The Hundred Loves of Juliet, so I am willing to give this one a try. I like the supernatural twist to it, and I really like that cover. It just looks so fun and happy, although I’m guessing the story isn’t a very happy one? I don’t know. I have seen mixed reviews for this one, but that is ok. I like reading stories that maybe everyone else doesn’t like. Who knows? It just might end up being my favorite book of the year!

Until next time…