Rebecca's Thoughts

#10 One For My Enemy by Olivie Blake

#9 When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare

#8 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

#7 Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio

#6 Good Luck Have Fun: The Rise of Esports by Roland Li

#5 When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe

#4 Final Offer by Lauren Asher

Final offer is the final book in the Dreamland Billionaire series. The books can be read independently of each other and are also the only book in the series I’ve read. The book follows our hero Callahan and the hoops he has to jump through to get his inheritance from his late grandfather. He has to sell his grandfather’s house by the end of summer but there’s a catch. His ex-girlfriend and childhood best friend Alana lives there and is on the deed. The two must reconcile their differences to sell the house together.

#3 Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker – Kevin Mitnick
Ghost in the Wires is the true story behind America’s once most wanted hacker. Kevin Mitnick tells his side of the story throughout this book and dives into his time as the most wanted hacker in America. He tells of his tricks of the trade, time on the run, experiences of the U.S. Justice System, and his endeavours after the fact. This books also looks into the morality of hacking and how government seemingly don’t know how to respond to emerging technologies and people taking advantage of them.

#2 Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Alone With You in the Ether is a love story. It is a story about passions, learning, and finding your place in the world. It is also a story about time travel, counterfeiting foreign currency, and bees.

Regan is manic, a compulsive liar, and makes every decision impulsively. Undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy, she imagines being anywhere except where she currently is.

Aldo feels like he is drowning in the world. It’s too much; the people, their thoughts, it is all too chaotic. He is also attempting to solve time travel.

Over the span of six conversations these two talk about life, bees, and how to find one’s calling.

#1 Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

This is the story of the Sackler family and how they changed the world (for the worst). Their name was once the marque of many prestigious institutions around the world. Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, and the Louvre once proudly displayed the Sackler name and accepted millions in donations from them. They flaunted their wealth through donations of lavish proportion and were known as strong sponsors for the arts and sciences, a family that institutions could turn to for more money.

Underneath the art and prestige is the underbelly of the legal drug market. The Sackler family made their riches off of the marketing, selling, and creation of OxyCotin. The prescription drug was peddled to thousands around the world. It’s the deadly painkiller that led to the opioid crisis. This book follows the generations of the Sackler family and tells the story of what happens when you put profits over human suffering.