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papascott33
Kill For Me Kill For You | Steve Cavanagh
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#35 of 2025! Office October Book Club Selection.
Started: 10/19/25
Finished: 10/24/25
6 Days

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TheKidUpstairs
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Pickpick

It was the last couple chapters that brought this one up to a low pick for me.

I found this to be an interesting story, and I appreciate the many threads Summerscale was trying to weave together here: the murders themselves; the lascivious nature of the press and public interest in them; the racial tensions of the time; public attitudes towards women, sex work, and violence towards women.

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TheKidUpstairs But for much of the book I found the different ideas and threads uneven, and it seemed to bounce around without touching too deeply on anything. The last couple chapters finally started to dig a bit deeper, but it was a bit too late to be fully successful.

I'm glad I read it, but I can see why it wasn't shortlisted amidst a strong Women's Prize for NF list this year.
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BookKenz
This Is Our Story | Ashley Elston
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Mehso-so

I really enjoyed Ashley Elston's adult thriller Frist Lie Wins, so I decided to pick up one of her other books. However, this one didn't work for me. I found it really predictable and kind of boring.

However, I think young readers would really enjoy it.
⭐️⭐️⭐️

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TheEllieMo
The Lovely Bones | Sebold, Alice
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great choice 🩵🤍 2w
Eggs Powerful reading 😢😔 2w
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DieAReader
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Panpan

#Read2025 #Wardens2025

I expected too much…🤷🏻‍♀️😕

CoverToCoverGirl Bummer…😕 2w
DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl 😕Can‘t win ‘em all😂 2w
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Jadams89
Ten | Gretchen McNeil
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Bailedbailed

Sometimes I enjoy YA - and sometimes the characters annoy me so much I can‘t even focus on the plot. Unfortunately, this is the latter.

#HauntedShelf #RestlessSpirits

Littlewolf1 I have this issue with YA a lot. Its sad because I know there tons of 5⭐️ YAs out there, but the one that are so off turns me away from them. 3w
willaful I try them less and less. 3w
PuddleJumper I feel that. I've read some really good YA and some that make me eye roll 3w
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Gryffleclaw95
Kill For Me Kill For You | Steve Cavanagh
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Pickpick

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Kill For Me, Kill For You” is a mystery thriller with numerous plot twists that gave you surprises up to the very end. This novel was gripping and entertaining, however I‘m still not sure how I liked the ending.

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Lauranahe
Nothing More to Tell | Karen M. Mcmanus
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Pickpick

This was a fun, quick read. I kind of had the murderer figured out, but I still enjoyed the ride. The end was WAY too abrupt though. It was like ‘build up, build up, BUILD UP CLIMAX over. Aso here‘s the murderer.‘ Kind of anti-climatic.

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Hooked_on_books
Antidote | Karen Russell
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Pickpick

I wasn‘t a Swamplandia fan and thus initially passed this one up, so I‘m glad the #NBAlonglist for fiction got me to read it. I found this unique Dust Bowl historical fiction with some fantastical components to be fully engrossing. The characters are great and I like that we hear rotating perspectives from them, which helps keep the book moving. I really liked it!

Aims42 Ooo, awesome review! I have this on my TBR pile, I‘ll put it towards the top now 👍 4w
squirrelbrain Great review! I just started this…. 4w
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain I‘m so interested to see what you think of it! 4w
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