Hold Back the Dark

Finished my first book for #MarchUnshelfing !!

Now time for a #giveaway!

As promised I am giving away five books for every book I read during #MarchUnshelfing ! The first five are Reader‘s Digest books! Just comment or repost and tag me or use the tag #GeenieReadersGiveaway to enter, and all five could be yours! 🎈👍

Clwojick, Andrew65, Butterfinger, GHABI4ROSES

GHABI4ROSES Congrats on the book! I am determined to finish at least one of the two books to which I committed the first week! I will still be on track for the Unshelfing, and it looks like we all are! 4y

Geenie We can do this! 💪 I have to read four more. 😅 @GHABI4ROSES 4y

GHABI4ROSES I expect it to fly after this book! 4y

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Geenie 🦅 @GHABI4ROSES 🙂 4y

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 Going into the weekend on a high. 4y

Geenie Thank 👉🏼. Thank 👉🏼 very much @Andrew65 🙂💪 4y

Butterfinger Thanks. 4y

Clwojick This is awesome! And a great motivation to clear some books off your shelf ♥️ Keep it up! 4y

Dr.WhoNumber10 Holy crap 😂 this is amazinf 4y

Dr.WhoNumber10 *g 4y

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Geenie

Hold Back the Dark | Kay Hooper

Reviews While Reading/ a pre-review review

— 75% finished, or 199 pages

Still a lot of #facts alternating with reviews of said #facts always followed by more facts. These facts amount to a bunch of stuff nobody knows. Then there is more review and reiteration of #facts leading to more stuff nobody knows. 🙄

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Geenie

Hold Back the Dark | Kay Hooper

Reviews While Reading 🤓— a pre-review review ✍️

@ 36%, or 106 pages 📖

Lots of information, #facts, explanations and rationalizing. Very Nancy Drew.

Relevant Q & A:
Anybody remember Nancy Drew?

Butterfinger Yes. I need to reread some. Or get the new versions. 4y

PurpleTulipGirl I read some Nancy Drew, but I liked the Hardy Boys more, till I discovered Trixie Belden. 4y

Geenie @Butterfinger I haven‘t since middle school. Now that I remember her I‘m thirsty to read her again and see what had me so wrapped up. 4y

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Geenie @PurpleTulipGirl I‘ve never read the Hardy Boys or Trixie Belden! Are they from the same time or genre? 4y

SamAnne Oh yes! Nancy! Tricia! Hardy Boys! Read those when I was 9 and 10 in the 70s. 4y

Geenie @SamAnne all three?!! Both of you? @PurpleTulipGirl what was I doing that idk who these other guys are? 4y

Geenie @SamAnne I see what‘s happening here. I was born in 88. So I somehow stumbled upon Nancy and never knew Tricia or the Boys. Hardy Boys is sounding more familiar the more I type and read it. 🤔 4y

SamAnne @Geenie my mom did skills development for workers at a Goodwill store. She brought the whole gamut of books home to me. 4y

Geenie @SamAnne 💃👍💖 your mom 4y

PurpleTulipGirl Hardy Boys books were very similar to the Nancy Drew ones. It always seemed to me like they were intended for boys, while Nancy Drew was for girls, but I didn‘t care. Trixie Belden was more of the same; mysteries solved with the help of friends, set in the ‘50s and ‘60s. I identified more with her than Nancy Drew. Trixie is a tomboy and stubborn. It appealed to my misfit nature. 4y

Geenie You are knowledgeable and informative @PurpleTulipGirl 😊💖 that‘s lit 🔥 4y

Butterfinger @Geenie @PurpleTulipGirl @SamAnne I read Hardy Boys too. 4y

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Geenie

Hold Back the Dark | Kay Hooper

Beginning #marchunshelfing with the tagged and photographed book. Kudos to @Clwojick for hosting the #readathon.

#bookspin selection @TheAromaofBooks

Good luck all!!

🎉💖📚🎈👍

My bookish friends—

DieAReader, Andrew65, GHABI4ROSES

Geenie @Andrew65 success! I did it! 🏷 4y

Andrew65 @Yoshi-and-a-book Yey! 👍👏😁 4y

Clwojick Ooh. Sounds interesting! ♥️ 4y

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Geenie I‘m five pages in and it‘s crazy relatable 🤯 for non-dead people reasons. @Clwojick 4y

DieAReader Added to my TBR! Sounds really good & right up my alley 🥰📚 4y

TheAromaofBooks Unshelfing and bookspinning! Love it! 4y

Geenie @SquidgetsRoom I don‘t think you‘ll be disappointed. I‘ll update you as upon completion. 👍 4y

Geenie @TheAromaofBooks I ❤️ the bookspin and the readthons! And Litsy is like a carnival or a 3D arcade room. 🎉💖 It‘s all the LitsyLove. 4y

DieAReader Thanks @Geenie I appreciate it! I love Litsy for all the great things that happen here. Bookworms, Bookdragons & bookpeople unite!! It‘s amazing! 💖 4y

Geenie @SquidgetsRoom you just made us sound like an amazing army, or clan— bookpeople. I‘m going to put them them in my book... The Bookpeople. 😂 ❤️👍 4y

DieAReader We are a clan! We are the Bookpeople (worms & dragons too 😉💖) of the world! 4y

Geenie 👍💖 @SquidgetsRoom 4y

GHABI4ROSES Wooo hooo❣️ 4y

Geenie @GHABI4ROSES yea! 🎉💖👍 4y

GHABI4ROSES Yes, thank you, @Clwojick 🙏🏾 4y

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Booknerd2

Hold Back the Dark | Kay Hooper

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Really good except for the end. 🙁

Booknerd2 The ending was so anticlimactic and it had so much potential. 😡 6y

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MaleficentBookDragon

Hold Back the Dark | Kay Hooper

so-so

This one had great potential but fell very short. Too many characters & too much explaining. It started with blood & gore & a scary premise. Then the talking. About psychics. About psychic abilities. About energy. Blah, blah blah.
I realized there was only 10 pages left in the book and we hadn't even confronted the "BIG BAD" (to quote Buffy). It was then wrapped up in a nice little bow way too fast. This one left me very unsatisfied.

ContraryMary Had it been like 100-200 pages longer and had a more satisfactory ending I feel like it would have been one her better ones in recent years. 6y

MaleficentBookDragon @ContraryMary I agree. I wish more time was spent on the school situation. I also think they could have cut the number of agents there by at least half. It could have been so good.😖 (edited) 6y

Booknerd2 Just finished it and I agree with all the above comments. @ContraryMary 6y

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MaleficentBookDragon

Hold Back the Dark | Kay Hooper

Persephone is sitting on my knees as I read. She‘s so weird. #catsoflitsy

Tanzy13 🐱 6y

JoScho Love it! Cats are total weirdos. 6y

Dolly 😻 6y

Avanders 😂😂 6y

Bookzombie 💕🐱 6y

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MaleficentBookDragon

Hold Back the Dark | Kay Hooper

Do the dishes or read? Wow, that‘s a tough call. 😁

Elizabeth2 Good choice. 6y

JoScho Lol dishes will be there later 6y

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MaleficentBookDragon

Hold Back the Dark | Kay Hooper

Some holds came in at the library, so I am putting my #unreadshelfproject2018 and #freakyfriday reads aside for the moment, and meet up with Bishop‘s Special Crimes Unit one more time. After a couple episodes of Westworld that is.

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Monica5

Hold Back the Dark | Kay Hooper

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Got this as an ARC. The SCU and 6 psychics, known as the Chosen, receive messages to go to Prosperity. Strange thinks are happening there. A sinister pattern begins to emerge. It starts with a headache. The residents are doing unimaginable things, and waking up with no memory of the unspeakable acts they have committed. It's a darkness unlike any the world has ever seen.

tracey38 Oooh, sounds good! 6y

Monica5 @#tracey38 It was good. It comes out in April. 6y

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Monica5

Hold Back the Dark | Kay Hooper

Got this as an ARC. Fixing to start.

tracey38 I love Kay Hooper's books! Can't wait to hear about this one. 6y

Monica5 #tracey38 It is good so far. 6y

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