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Just finished this and loved it! It was so well-written and kept me invested in its entirety! The book felt so realistic and was the perfect length. The characters and story itself are psychologically complex, which I love in a book. I didn‘t predict the ending like I have with most psychology thrillers/dramas I‘ve read. I am so excited that it‘s going to be a show with my favorite actress! I will be reading other books by Adrienne Celt!

This is definitely a character based storyline verses an action based one, and I tend to enjoy the contemplative aspects to that style. But it was extremely slow moving. If it were not for the quality of Adrienne Celt's writing, I would have thrown the towel in long ago. The ending felt a bit anticlimactic after the slow pace.

Enjoyable but overwritten & in need of a pruning. The characters' voices were unconvincing & lacking authenticity. Story itself was fairly engaging if sparse but repeatedly got bogged down in the faux profundity and irrelevancy that was a weakness of the author's style. Some of it was beautifully written, some pseud nonsense. The themes got lost at times, hammered home at others. Not without promise but misfiring somewhat.

Day 4 for the #fallisbooked challenge, saw this book in the library.

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Starting this one tonight. With thanks to #netgalley for this book.

What I'm readin now!! Its moving along very slowly.

This is my #augustwrapup - I liked quite a lot of the books I read in August. I loved all three Karin Slaughter books - I finished her Grant County series and the final chapter - OH MY GOD! 🤯
I also loved We Are Never Meeting in Real Life and liked Thirteen a lot! 😊 So, overall, not a bad month!

Nice new upholstery on the chairs at the doctor‘s office. This book sounds ominous but I‘m very curious since it‘s based on Nabokov, his wife, and a young woman he had an affair with.

This book is so beautifully written but I felt it meandered a lot more than was necessary. Overall though - a good read! My full review is on my blog now if you fancy reading!
https://lifewithallthebooks.com/2018/08/19/invitation-to-a-bonfire-by-adrienne-c...
I received this one from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!

It's time for a "part psychological thriller and part literary puzzle."

Zoya Andropova comes over from Russia as a young orphan, dropped into an all-girls boarding school in 1920s New Jersey. Zoya is alienated and alone when her favorite Russian novelist arrives with his beautiful, aristocratic, calculating wife. What results is a quiet, burning meditation on deception, identity, class distinction, nationality, loyalty, & art, that rages into a holy conflagration and leaves you with delicious smoke in your eyes.

Afternoon reading. Finally - FINALLY - sitting down with this beauty. If you haven‘t read her previous novel, THE DAUGHTERS, you should do that right now. I‘ll wait here. 🔥❤️🤩