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Happily Ever After | Kiera Cass
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Two weeks in, and this was my fourth headache. How would I explain something like that to the prince? As if it wasn‘t bad enough that nearly every girl left was a Two.
#HappilyEverAfter #KieraCass #TheSelectionSeries #firstline #openingline #book #books #bookcase #bookcases #bookcover #bookcovers #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverdesigner #bookclub #bookclubs #Romance #YoungAdult #Dystopia #Fantasy #Fiction #ShortStories #Novella #Audiobook #Royalty 💛💛

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IndianBookworm
The Grace Year | Kim Liggett
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It's your sweet 16. But what if you're exiled in the wilderness for a year because it's believed by the MEN that you have some magic. Add in some poachers too.
The story had so much potential and it could have been a series and could have taken so many different directions. It felt very horizontal when it could have been so much more vertical. Great idea but not well executed. Nevertheless, still a page-turner and a must read.
3.5/5🌟

Texreader Great review! 8h
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Bookwormjillk
Parable of the Talents | Octavia Butler
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This was a hard book to read, but also one I‘ve been anticipating for a long time. It‘s astonishing how much this dystopian novel felt like now. I‘m not sure what to think about the ending.

Melismatic Apparently a third book was in Butler‘s plan…but she was never able to complete it. 🥺 20h
Bookwormjillk @Melismatic that makes sense 20h
Ruthiella She left us far too soon. 😢 18h
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Bookwormjillk @Ruthiella Yes, but I was thinking would we really want her to see her books come true? 10h
AmyG I just read the first one and NO we don‘t want to see any of it come true. 9h
OutsmartYourShelf 👏🏻👏🏻 8h
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2h
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Jeg
The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood
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When I first read this in 1985 it had a big impact on me and it‘s one book that stayed with me. I‘ve not watched the series and probably won‘t. This reread allowed me to see how much is actually happening now. Loved the authors introduction written in 2017. Who would have thought back in 1985 that some of this could be a possibility.

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Creadnorthey
Ship Breaker | Paolo Bacigalupi
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So in the YAL category this merits 5 stars for sure. I love the attention to world creation, post climate disaster tipping point- leaving the reader in a world that has roots in what is here now to imagine an earth after ready available fossil fuels. The characters are descent YAL stand-ins; nothing too new, but there is a good dynamic range that flows well with the high octane, if waterlogged, action adventure. I‘m in for the sequel!

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i.z.booknook
The Second Sleep | Robert Harris
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My first Robert Harris novel! This was really enjoyable. However, if I hadn‘t been recommended this by someone I never would have picked it up from the blurb. In what is assumed to be the Middle Ages, a priest goes to a remote village to investigate the death of a local vicar. What follows is a very early twist/reveal and then revelations about human history, commentary on how societies are structured and how we (cont. in comments 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻)

i.z.booknook remember and preserve history. This had an excellent pace and interesting characters. I was a little disappointed by the ending, there was such a build I just wanted a little bit more. But it was really enjoyable and a great premise. But hard to review without giving too much away. 1d
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ImperfectCJ
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Yay! I finished a book!
This novel has some interesting commentary about the nature of race and the limitations of working towards equality in the context of the existing system. The solution they come up with is a bit Stepford Wives, a bit Get Out, and a bit Spanish Inquisition (mostly Stepford Wives, though...lots of parallels, if I'm remembering that book accurately).
#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers

Bookwormjillk 🍫🍫🍫 1d
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ImperfectCJ
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Beverage update: Tea and double-checking the pronunciation of a word that could be (but isn't) on the #HauntedShelf Word Finder list.

I'm not used to caffeine, so now I need to take a break to work some of it through my bloodstream so I'm not so jittery. Luckily, the laundry needs attention, so I can get my body moving and audio-chore with the tagged book for a bit while still being productive.

ravenlee I have the same problem when I have any caffeine! The tiniest bit is ok, but any more and I get jittery and weird. Super-hydrating sometimes helps. 4d
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candc320
Tender Is the Flesh | Agustina Bazterrica
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Ummmm…this one was rough! Not only is the subject matter unsettling but the audiobook narrator‘s lack of inflection or feeling in his voice was particularly disturbing and sometimes monotonous. I also really didn‘t like the ending either and there is a part dealing with puppies that I especially hated (which might sound weird given everything else going on). The overall theme though of the worth of humanity was intriguing. 🌟🌟🌟

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RedxoHearts
Fear | Michael Grant
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Now this book of the series was better! For a YA dystopian some parts are a bit intense, creepy and just very unsettling the way Michael Grant describes things. The eyeball situation was almost too much for me. ? Though the mental imagery for the ending standoff with a "baby" made me laugh a little. That was a weird scenario for sure. I think adding in the additional point of view of what is happening on the outside made it better as well.