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Still Life By: Louise Penny
The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere…
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Wellness By: Nathan Hill
A story about marriage, relationships, hopes and life in the 90s Chicago area. This book exhausted me. There were two books inside this one novel and maybe I didn’t give it a real chance once the second book started … but at 75% I realized I was dredging picking this monster of a book up.…
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Throne of Glass By: Sarah J. Maas
A wronged assassin is given a chance to free herself from a death camp, but she stumbles on way more than a simple competition. My biggest question is where is the throne in Throne of Glass? To give you a quick background of where I am at with this viral author, Sarah J. Maas. I…
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FOREVER, INTERRUPTED BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID
TJR’s first book! I didn’t even realize that I picked up this golden debut until I did my after-reading, before-review research. Now – I can totally see how this is the first book and TJR has certainly improved her craft since then. This story is all about grief. Is this the best written book I…
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LILY AND THE OCTOPUS BY STEVEN ROWLEY
This is a quirky one and not for the reader who likes things straight forward. Which, I realized is ‘kinda’ me? I spent most of the book annoyed at the slight immaturity of Ted and how it seemed like things were happening to him rather than Lily. Yet – I balance it with, who am I to judge how people deal…
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THE HOTEL NANTUCKET BY ELIN HILDERBRAND
I always think that I struggle with Hilderbrand book but she might be top 5 authors I have read and purchased books for… so take that little doubter in my mind. This was a VERY interesting read. Interesting… what an interesting word. What does that even mean? Everything I liked about the book, I also disliked. I liked…
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THE WITCH ELM BY: TANA FRENCH
This was a hard rating to give! I am a HUGE Tana French fan. HUGE. So sitting here thinking about this book, I’m like what was this? This felt like nothing like her older books. The writing felt like a completely different author. I will never downgrade a review based on not liking a character…
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