so-soConceptually, this book is fantastic, and the fact that it highlights young women boxers is exceptional. I bear some responsibility for my somewhat “meh“ reaction to the book as I have very little interest in boxing, and I'm sure that sullied my reaction a bit. #TOB2025 #TOB25 Full review: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3934124522060211942/278442361882261270
pick3.5⭐(Light Pick)
This had interesting characters and a compelling premise. It started strong but then dragged in the middle, and while the action eventually picked up, some elements became too over-the-top for my taste.
🎙️Even though my interest waned when this story got a little wonky, I‘m still all in on Graphic Audio doing thrillers. Please do more of them.
pickThis weekend was my bookclub's second annual retreat. We stay in a beautiful old farmhouse that has a huge kitchen with couches and a fireplace. Its a wonderful weekend filled with reading, laughter and great company
I devoured the tagged book this weekend. Great storyline!
pickIt was good, but didn't quite live up to the author‘s Crimson Lake books. Maybe because those books are about a specific duo, with other characters in their orbit, and while this one also has what I would consider to be two main characters, the focus constantly shifted to other characters. Or maybe the characters in this one just weren't as appealing. Still worth reading though.
pickBy far my favorite Donlea book
Dr. Sloan Hastings, a forensic pathology fellow whose personal DNA project turns her life upside down. When her test results reveal she‘s actually “Baby Charlotte” — the child at the center of a decades-old Nevada disappearance — Sloan is pulled into a web of family secrets, murder, and small-town corruption.
🥃 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒍 🐆
Author Ann Patchett says 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞 by 𝗪𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐕𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧 is “both a work of extraordinary compassion & a really great novel.“ Sounds fascinating & gripping. A man deals with addiction, loneliness, the trauma or past tragedies, & the kind of regret one can only know when at a certain age. Thanks to Bibliolifestyle & Harper Perennial, I'm looking forward to reading this “masterpiece,“ published July 29th.
pick#Nevada My first Vlautin, won‘t be my last. Haunting novel about a girl who moves from LV to Reno to escape an awful boyfriend…she hits rock bottom but then gradually she picks herself up and things get better. Bleak but gradually more hopeful.
