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amber_ldsmom
Doctor Sleep: A Novel | Stephen King
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Mehso-so

Finally finished this chunker! I‘ve had a REALLY slow reading month. 😥 This is the sequel to The Shining, and it so about Danny Torrance all grown up and his mentoring of a little girl who also has the shining. I thought some parts were really cheesy and there was way too much swearing for me, but it kept me entertained. #recbylibrarian #ReadwithMrBook

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gradcat
An Anonymous Girl | Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks
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Panpan

#ReadWithMrBook #RecbyLibrarian/BookSeller

Hated it. But I will say that this book is really front-loaded, meaning the beginning really draws the reader in, but by the middle of it, one is just reading to discover the highly predictable ending. I tend to love psychological suspense novels—used to read loads of the Alex Delaware novels by Jonathan Kellerman—so I couldn‘t wait to get to this one. The MC is a a clinical psychologist as well as a ⬇️

gradcat ⬆️ professor at NYU, who has sophistication to burn along with plenty of money (to burn, it would seem, as she dispenses it with great abandon). The crux lies in her inability to trust her husband, and the faux ethical trials she puts in place in her classroom. Enter a young woman who, in her own rather unethical circumstances, is chosen as the test subject. Neither character has much meat on the bones, and when you add in the weak willed, ⬇️ (edited) 5y
gradcat ⬆️ philandering husband, a reader (like me) might find that they don‘t much like or care about any of these characters. This authorial team enjoys great hype pre-publication, and I just don‘t get it. Even the format drove me crazy. Perhaps the tagged one is better? ♥️ (edited) 5y
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