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April 2025 Book #3
This one has mixed reviews but it works for me. I haven‘t read The scarlet letter but now I‘m intrigued. I liked the story and the writing style. 4⭐️Beautiful cover😍
#Read2025 @DieAReader
#BookSpinBingo #8 subscription book @TheAromaOfBooks
#UltimateReadingChalkenge2025 #30 Inspired in another book @faranae
#GoodReads#aroundtheyear #ATY prompt #43 title less than 10 letters
#LiteraryCrew (January) @librarybelle

I‘ve read another book with a similar concept, but this book did the locked room horror house very right. Revenge plots and a heroine (or is she) and who finds her voice. Very good end to spooky season.
Book #30 of 2025

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“Ivona and Vlato meet as students at the turn of the millennium in Zagreb. Everything smells of freedom and possibility. Red Hot Chili Peppers are pumping through the speakers of a bar and cheap beer is overflowing; newly democratic Croatia is alive with hope and promise.”

With a blurb like this, my expectations were high and I am happy to say I loved this book.⬇️

📸 Room with a view at #Gladstones25

#30 of 2025! D.D. Warren No. 7!
Started: 9/7/25
Finished: 9/20/25
14 Days (6 day break in the middle)

I loved this book. Current favourite of the year. I found Gemma and Mason so engaging, and I was invested in both of them nearly immediately. To the point where I almost completely forgot that they weren't real people. I read this until an ungodly hour this morning because I needed to know how it ended, even though I knew how it had to end. And now I'm grieving because I know that's all there is of them. #30-2025

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Finished a few weeks ago-another #Roll100 pick for May (#30 Any Audio) & it was enjoyable. I‘m a Molly Harper fan but I prefer her paranormal series to her other books without supernatural creatures. Still, this mystery was fun-involving a proposal planner at a “pre-bridal retreat” at a resort with an obnoxious client & winds up involved in 2 murders I liked the MC, Jess, & the quirky cast of side characters & there was good snark.

A 15-year-old crime:a teenage girl fell into a canal & began to drown.An alcoholic man saw this & jumped in to save her.But lack of oxygen caused sprain damage.Now the age of 30 she is like a seven-year-old.As always,we see Venice through Brunetti‘s eyes,as well as his family & home life,including his family‘s meals & reading choices, described with exquisite attention to detail.The murder of the alcoholic man brings this 15 year old case ⬇️

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A little late but here are my #Roll100 picks for May. I decided to go with all 6 numbers as 2 of them are for other challenges. Wish me luck!

#4: Any BOTM: The Sun Was Electric Light
#40: Any ARC: Look Before You Leap
#3: Any ARC: A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic
#30 Any Audio: A Proposal to Die For
#7: Any Memoir: Be Ready When the Luck Happens
#70: Any Children‘s Book: The Racketty-Packetty House

#FictionalTraveler #ChildrensClassicRead2025

An absolute riot of a story. A few of us joked at Bookclub this week after we heard about a book with a door as the main love interest. It was, well it was what you would expect from a paranormal door turns to man when his door knob is, um desecrated, boom. Greek mythology (that‘s really stretching it) with a strange twist. Book #30 in 2025