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And there you go. Favorite book of the year. How this woman can explain such beauty and loss…it‘s beyond me. All the stars.

Soubhiville ❤️❤️❤️ I‘m so glad you loved it! 17h

Bookwormjillk That sounds promising! 16h

sarahbarnes Can‘t wait for this! 16h

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BarbaraJean I‘m really looking forward to this one for #CampLitsy! (If my library hold ever comes in 😩) 16h

Lesliereadsalot My favorite by a mile. 16h

Jas16 I really loved this one too. 16h

squirrelbrain It‘s so good, isn‘t it?! 10h

BarbaraBB My favorite too 💕 8m

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Texreader

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

There‘s a 3-week wait for the next June book for #camplitsy. So I thought I‘d check for both the print and audiobook versions at my other libraries. Doesn‘t look like I have a better choice!! I may be listening to this one sometime in July—unless I get lucky!

TheBookHippie I‘m still waiting this months current read 🫣 2d

BarbaraJean Same. I have a 12-13 week wait for Wild Dark Shore and Audition has been sitting at a 4-week wait for the past 2 weeks 😫 Meanwhile I‘ve read both of July‘s books 😂 (edited) 2d

AnnCrystal Yikes! 📚💝. 1d

GingerAntics That is the most frustrating situation! 1d

ChaoticMissAdventures I got lucky - literally my library holds out a few dozen copies of popular books that people cannot reserve or extend and I grabbed up one of those copies, I think all libraries should do this. 22h

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AmyG

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

Oh boy, this book. Halfway through and just wow.

Soubhiville I loved it! I feel like she gets better with every book. 2d

AmyG @Soubhiville Agree. She gets better and better. This ine may just be my favorite. Beautiful and so heartbreaking. You had a nice birthday??? (edited) 2d

Lesliereadsalot I knew you‘d love it. 2d

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peaKnit So good! It‘s hard to guess who‘s on the up and up, is anyone? 🤔 I look forward to discussion. 2d

BarbaraBB I hear you. And felt the same 2d

squirrelbrain So good! ❤️ 1d

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TheKidUpstairs

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

pick

I'll save the detail for the #CampLitsy25 discussions, but the quick review is this:

I loved it. One of the best I've read this year. And with an ending that is infuriating, and beautiful, and ultimately perfect.

I was rather unimpressed with Migrations, so i went in with low expectations. I'm so glad camp convinced me to give this one a try!

squirrelbrain Hooray! ❤️ 3d

Shamzi What is #camplitsy25 3d

AmyG Ooooo I just started this. 3d

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BarbaraBB I am so happy you read it and loved it! 2d

TheKidUpstairs @Shamzi #CampLitsy25 is a fun reading event hosted by @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB and @Megabooks - six books were chosen to read as a group and discuss, 2 each for June, July and August. Discussions are hosted on the weekends, and at the end of each month we vote on our favourite of the month (at the end of the summer we then vote for our overall favourite). June's books are Audition by Katie Kitamura, and this one. Anyone is welcome to join! 2d

Megabooks Great review and great summary of camp for @shamzi! I loved Migrations, but only liked WDS. But I loved how the island and the environment was so woven in as another character. She's definitely a super talented author. 13h

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GatheringBooks

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

#JuneSpecials Day 9: A lot of #DarkAndStormy moments in this one.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Great cover🤎🧡🤎 3d

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ChaoticMissAdventures

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

so-so

3⭐ I am an outlier on this author. This is my third book of hers, and I am only reading it for #CampLitsy25. I could have skipped it and saved 2 days of reading...
I just don't understand. I find the characters, their motives and actions, utterly silly and unbelievable. I think that the language she uses is good but the way others gush about it I just don't feel the same (there is nothing I want to take a highlighter to).
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ChaoticMissAdventures I am constantly annoyed at how McConaghy depicts people who do not want children. No matter their motivation she finds a way to "change their mind" or in this case equate someone wanting to care for someone else's children to be like she changed her mind on having kids. She said she didn't want to bring babies into this world, that doesn't mean she hates children and wouldn't care for already born ones. This is such a wrongheaded look at CFBC. 4d

ChaoticMissAdventures I understand Dom and the children better than Rowans actions, but I think the miscommunication trope is way too heavy handed in this. It was annoying. 4d

ChaoticMissAdventures Also! You are going to sleep with a guy who you think might have killed your husband? Come on. And what the first unsupervised adult on the island is going to be the one he sleeps with? I could have done completely without all that. 4d

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BarbaraBB Great review. I get your annoyance even though I loved the book and was convinced you would too. We‘ve been so in sync lately 😉. Looking to discuss it further on Camp! 4d

squirrelbrain Like @BarbaraBB I loved this book, but I did have to suspend my disbelief at points. The author has a particular style, a lot of which would annoy me more in another book but somehow I can ignore here. 4d

ChaoticMissAdventures @squirrelbrain I looked multiple times to see if it was fantasy or magical realism coded because the stuff going on was so unbelievable to me. I know she is super beloved. My ex mother-in-law is the one who originally convinced me to read her which I find odd because she usually cannot handle anything that makes her suspend belief 4d

ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB first Emily Henry now this! I can win for popular authors! And now I am feeling a reading slump I need to push through! Shake it off. 4d

Ruthiella I 100% agree with you. I actively hated this book. Beautiful writing but not one thing made sense to me. No one behaved in a believable way. 4d

LiteraryHoarderPenny I have the same problem with this author. Lots of gushing love and I just shrug 🤷🏻‍♀️ 4d

ChaoticMissAdventures @Ruthiella this and the Wolves one, I put them both down and just felt unreasonably annoyed. The situations she writes are just so out of pocket ridiculous. Migrations I just sort of felt meh about. Like @LiteraryHoarderPenny I just shrug. Not for me. 4d

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ChaoticMissAdventures

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

At a cafe reading #CampLitsy25 book 2 which is due back tomorrow thinking about our conversation earlier today about if a character felt judged by the waiter as I overhear a conversation by 2 women that started "Well when my dad left my mom for your mom...." ?. I am a nosy cafe person!

Kitta 😂 5d

Ruthiella That would catch my attention too! 👀🤣 5d

squirrelbrain Lol, so funny! And such an intriguing, delicious conversation opener! 🤣 (edited) 5d

BarbaraBB Sounds like a great first sentence of a book! 5d

Lesliereadsalot Haha. I‘d like to hear that conversation! 4d

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GatheringBooks

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

#JuneSpecials Day 6: #DDay is explored here with the seed bank vault and deciding which of the seeds will have to go - and which ones are needed should the apocalypse come and wipe out humanity. A beautiful beautiful book. Happy that it is part of #CampLitsy2025 - gearing up to be one of my faves.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs The beverages look amazing 🤩 6d

GatheringBooks @Eggs and they match, too! 🍹 5d

Eggs @GatheringBooks Bonus🥰🤗 5d

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GatheringBooks

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

#JuneSpecials Day 5: #WorldEnvironment is explored so sensitively in this novel about so much grief and loss. Made me cry when I finished reading it last night. #CampLitsy25 June titles now done. Started with our #EuropaCollective pick for June last night.

Megabooks, tpixie, Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, squirrelbrain, BarbaraBB, Lesliereadsalot

squirrelbrain I‘m just over halfway through this one….. 1w

BarbaraBB A fantastic book, isn't it? Are you loving it too @squirrelbrain? 1w

Lesliereadsalot My favorite book of the year so far! So glad you liked it. 1w

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tpixie Oh no! Another TBR- hearing all the love! Yesterday also I started

Gabri�le

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AmyG I am saving this for when my husband leaves for business…..so I can binge read it in peace. 🤣 1w

Eggs Sounds so good #MtTBR !! 1w

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Nessavamusic

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

pick

I read this for my RL book club and it was my BOTM for May. Overall I liked this. It was a mashup of family drama, mystery and a little bit dystopian. The children and their personalities were the best part. I didn‘t love the two adults and never quite felt chemistry between besides forced proximity. Beautiful writing though! 3.5⭐️

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