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Finished this on audiobook today. I‘m so glad that I came back to it after bailing on it a few months ago. It was so good! Using this as part of the #scarathlon #scaryscavengerhunt for a book where a character dies. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@Clwojick This book was so good, I immediately checked out part two, The Vanishing Stair, and started listening to it. Move this up on your TBR!

STEVIE — all the feels ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yet another one that I started before, bailed on after a few chapters, and came back to. I‘ve listened to a good chunk of this today and will probably finish it tonight. I‘m glad I gave this one a second chance! #scarathlon @Clwojick

Finally able to open my #cozyswap after a long day. @BethM Thank you SO MUCH! I‘m doing this I‘m two posts because one won‘t do it all justice. #Chloe is curious about the whole thing so she helped me set up the books. I love that two of these are ones you enjoyed, and I‘ve been dying for the other 2 -I can‘t wait to read them all!!

I know that it looks like I haven't been reading for a few days. Crazy, right?! I *have* been reading; but, I've been in Washington DC doing annual Save the Children Action Network volunteer leadership training & advocating for kids with our legislators. It may take me a day or two to catch up my various reading logs.

I reread tagged book for virtual book club. Found a few new tidbits.

[Photo from Uber ride on the way back to the airport Tu pm.]

#shock #quotsysept19

This should be an interesting book 📖🎃👻

This is the second book this week I have read about teenagers and murder. I am also reading another too at the moment! Anyway this is the first of a trilogy and I really enjoyed it. #crimenovels

Stevie Bell is an amateur detective trying to solve the infamous murder that happened 80 years ago when her prestigious private school opened. It seems the killer is back so Stevie uses all her skills and knowledge to try and figure out what's happening. A bit slow to start but a very enjoyable first installment in this trilogy! Looking forward to the next two!
#booked2019 female detective
@Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

I really enjoyed this one despite it being a bit slow in places. Now, even though I have begun another book, my mind is consumed with getting my hands on the second book in this series! Full Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2691113939?book_show_action=false&from_rev...

After reading the Shades of London series earlier this year and having a bit of a love/hate relationship with it, I was honestly scared to pick this series up. But, thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised! It feels like it was written by an entirely different person! Thank goodness.

Ooh—I love/hate a cliffhanger!!!

I have never related to a main character so much in my life. Stevie was funny and flawed and loveable and unlikable. She was a real person and she makes this book so good. The mystery is solid and fun to guess about and I'm excited to see whats next. Only downside is the love interest and his story is eh and predictable

This book has some great lines to it. I particularly love this one.

The mentions of Pittsburgh and Monroeville will not end in this book and it makes me smile every time

Anyone else get insanely excited when their city is referenced? Like it doesn't have anything to do with the book setting but it was mentioned! Yay!

#quotsyjuly19 @TK-421
#Hammock

And hit my goal! The weather being so hot and humid helped convince Watson we needed more inside time and snuggles. I finished 4 books and am half way through 2 new ones! I think I‘ll just read for a little bit longer.... #24in48 #readathon #dogsoflitsy

Good morning! I started this late last night and really 💗 it so far! I don‘t read a lot of YA but Maureen Johnson might be adding to my TBR 🤷🏻‍♀️

I hit about 13.5 hrs yesterday with ~4 hrs being audio. I may be able to actually hit 24 🤞#24in48 #readathon

I love that this is the dedication for this book 😍

This was fun easy read. I don't read a lot of YA but i am glad i remembered i wanted to read it when i saw it on my library stacks. Stevie is selected to attend a private boarding school based on her talent of sleuthing. She plans to solve the decades old disappearance of the schools founding mistress and daughter. Then a current student is found dead and Stevie has another mystery to solve before this school keeps claiming victims. Fun 4 stars.

Day 5's Post Challenge for Fantasy @JourneyAThon is Favourite Colour!

So, obviously my favourite colour is Blue! So here are some blue things!

Bookmark & Candle are from www.duskangelstore.com & the Ford Anglia is from a Geek Gear Wizardry Box!

#JourneyAThon #FantasyJourneyAThon #journeythestral

Day 5's Post Challenge is Favourite Colour!

So, obviously my favourite colour is Blue! So here are some blue things!

Bookmark & Candle are from www.duskangelstore.com & the Ford Anglia is from a Geek Gear Wizardry Box!

#JourneyAThon #FantasyJourneyAThon

Checked this out from the library and am nearly finished with it. Enjoyable and a mellow read. I‘m not sure if I‘m in for a trilogy here but I‘ll probably give the second book a chance.

Hi everyone! I did a reread of Truly Devious before I start the second book. I really enjoyed Truly Devious even the second time. #litsy #kindle #kindlefire #paperwhite #library #bookgeek

Nate was a rain cloud, but he was her friendly rain cloud, and the world needs some rain.

Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.

This reminds me of A Series of Unfortunate Events and I am living for it: “According to the legend, Albert Ellingham had come to the place purely by mistake while trying to get to Burlington to the yacht club. How you accidentally found yourself up the side of an uninhabited mountain in 1928 is unclear, but he had done it, and proclaimed the spot perfect.”

“She had read many stories in which death was present as a character—a palpable force in the room. There was such a force in the room now, a silent visitor in the space.”

I was left a little confuse after finishing this book. It left a lot of unanswered question but after reading and hearing other people thoughts I know why. This book did not wrap up anything that was going on to make you as the reader to pick up the 2nd book. I felt a little bored reading this book. Even though the pace was not so bad. I might pick up book 2 just to have some of questions answered.
3⭐⭐⭐

For anyone who has ever dreamed of finding a body in a library. " -Dedication of Truly Devious

Broke me out of my reading slump, and absolutely was everything I wanted! I fell in love, and entirely saw myself in Stevie. One of my favorites!

So excited to read this one! Been reading good reviews about this

Do you like Sherlock Holmes and/or Hercules Poirot?
Do you like murder mysteries?
Do you like YA books?

If the answer is yes, then you need to pick this one up.
I really love it. Everything about it. The writing, the mystery, the characters... it's all really good.
Though if you love to binge read books, you might want to wait for the series to be complete, I believe it is a trilogy.

Also.. Gimme book 2!

In the 1930s, Ellingham, a rich tycoon, opens a free school for the gifted on a secluded mountain. Shortly thereafter, his wife and child are kidnapped and the case is never solved. Decades later, Stevie, and amateur sleuth, begins at school hoping to solve the crime, but there's more going on.
I really enjoyed this read and motored through it. It kept me interested and i appreciated the author touching on the MC's battle with her mental health.

I like Nate. Nate‘s a solid investment. But then again, it‘s MoJo (would that the author and I were friends! I feel like I just gave her a nickname!). She‘s a slippery little writer. One minute, I got it 🤜🏻 we‘re good. The next, nope never had it. Just thought I did. What a lovely palate cleanser after The (equally brilliant) Priory of the Orange Tree. 4.25 solid ⭐️! Lost a little momentum around ch. 10, but she was back in the game by ch. 16.

Wow! I wasn‘t expecting ... any ... of that. WTF just happened? How did it happened? Who‘s real in this mish mash of weird names, odd personalities and, quite frankly, truly devious set of secondary characters?

“He had a smile like a hammock - just get in, go to sleep, forget your troubles and cares.”

A fun and gripping read. Quirky interesting characters and a spooky eclectic background with hints of boarding school, 1930‘s prohibition, a little bit Gatsby and lots of YA charm. My only complaint was the cliffhanger ending - eased only by the immediate Kindle purchase of the sequel. A 4 stars out of 5 for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I started this book when I heard the author was a murderino, but I absolutely adore it so far! It‘s whimsical and mysterious and is giving me all the cozy feels that I got when I read Harry Potter for the first time.

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“She had read many stories

in which death was present as a character

a palpable force in the room.

There was such a force in the room now,

a silent visitor in space.”

Stevie is my soul sister.

Great mystery! I‘m glad I should have the second book soon.

I don‘t usually read YA, but the description sounds too good not to.

Dual mysteries and boarding school are a winning combination. Glad I waited to read this until book 2 was out bc it ends on a cliffhanger.

Finishing Truly Devious while my cat watches season 3 of One Day at a Time. (We agree it is great!) #lazysunday

1. Just finished the tagged book and HATED it. So disappointed, but seems like everyone else loved it so don't let my opinion deter you from trying it!!!!
2. Sweet
3. Philomena & James, Theresa & Anthony
4. Free Willy
5. I wouldn't care, as long as long as there's good food 😋

Happy Friday!

@howjessreads #friyayintro

Oh. My. Gosh.

Loved this one!!! Stevie is a modern day Nancy Drew and I‘m so here for it!!! Need the 2nd one ASAP!