This month, we're taking on Havoc, Christopher Bollen's old-versus-young thriller set in a hotel on the Nile. We've held over Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium as our sub-read, so our May meeting will be two novels about recuperative trips gone wrong.

A well written but very confusing novel about love, loss, and the way deep relationships change up. There are truly beautiful passages in this book, but aside from the basic themes, we had no idea why Michaels was showing us the characters and scenes she chose and we all felt the novel could have been structured more tightly and clearly.

We had an overall positive response to van der Wouden's story about historic wrongs and living with past mistakes, although some people saw the plot coming and thought the story needed to give more context to what was a very specifically Dutch situation.