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Inhaled this book in one day as i found it so interesting. However im not sure its going to stay with me. The form is that of a notebook being passed from one person to the next so you dont stay with any one character for long. In a future world a nanite technology recreates all your human cells so that you can survive a terminal illness. But are you still human? Do you still have a soul and does it wish to remain forever in this ⬇️

Centique immortal body? Lots of interesting questions but i think a longer book would have helped you connect and feel more for the characters. I think Anton Hur is a writer I need to read more from for sure. 1mo

Reggie All the nanite stuff I read goes into the horror/ai becomes too smart and kills us off territory. This sounds good. 1mo

Centique @Reggie yes this goes there too! But it stays pretty cerebral, you dont get up close to any of the carnage. 1mo

Rissreadswithcats This does sound interesting. Stacked 🩷 3w

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Jgacreations

My Murder | Katie Williams

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It was good. I read it pretty quick. Wish the ending was a little better but I did enjoy it.

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DaniJ

Toward Eternity | Anton Hur

so-so

Whelp, that was a weird little trip.

Although nicely written, this book is a bit of a clusterfuck of sci-fi and questioning humanity and human existence. I listened to the audio book, and though it was engaging, I definitely found myself wondering “What‘s the point of this book”. Maybe I‘m not in a place to appreciate it right now, but it was a 🤷‍♀️ for me.

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AmyG

My Murder | Katie Williams

PART 1

4 amazing books!!! I am so excited to read these this winter during hibernation. 🤣
Thank you SO much! @guinsgirlreads

#HauntedHollowSwap #HHS #HHS24 @wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn Awesome! 🖤🎃🧡👻 4mo

KT1432 I have Diavola and I‘ve heard such great things about it! 4mo

AmyG @KT1432 Same. I will probably read that one first. 4mo

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Robotswithpersonality

My Murder | Katie Williams

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The Echo Wife meets How to be Eaten and The Final Girl's Support Group.
I am very glad I did not figure out what was going on until the reveal - I'm even more relieved this was not a 'the husband did it' plot.
I really admire the book for presenting the doubt in motherhood, and a character who is not shamed for deciding that motherhood and marriage were not right for her only after having tried it. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The main perspective is that of the woman who chooses to be a wife and mother, who wants to stay, so subjectively the judgement could be there, but the narrative leaves room for an individual to make their own choice.
The commentary is clear on which figure society sees as more sympathetic - the young mother being the role model victim - the original clandestinely slipping away to a new life 6mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? - though that probably has more to do with the fact that she can't just pop up without creating issues for the cloning company and possibly herself given the murder investigation.
I'll admit for a while there I was more enamoured of the first half than the second, when the first had the literary sci fi bent of examining how a woman fits back into her life as a clone of a previous self, how a VR setting could provide intimacy, 6mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? could provide catharsis for murder victims - though I guess that last one's more a second half revelation; how the serial killer and the cloning board both seem to view the women as special and yet homogenous, replaceable, the idea of women feeling devalued, unrecognized even as they're unable to escape public attention. 6mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/? Then there are the non sci fi related questions around dealing with a sense of self, mortality, vulnerability, being a woman not automatically meaning victim, even as trauma, as media, as society keeps trying to attach that label; the struggle for control, obviously the concerns about trying to be a good mother, worries about connecting to one's child, physically and emotionally, even before post partum depression is suggested. 6mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 Because the second half shifted into murder mystery mode I thought I was losing the contemplative pieces but the last revelations, the choices available, the role cloning actually played, that the husband actually played, really worked for me.
Similar to The Echo Wife, all the comps above, really, I enjoyed how this worked out way more than I thought I would. Adding another 'clones' book to my favourites pile!

⚠️mentions of domestic abuse (edited) 6mo

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Robotswithpersonality

My Murder | Katie Williams

EXCELLENT word.

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Robotswithpersonality

My Murder | Katie Williams

That's so...sweet?

Sleepswithbooks 😂 6mo

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RaeLovesToRead

Toward Eternity | Anton Hur

Weird #blameitonbookstagram purchases.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_bgDDrAeZi/?igsh=cWhpNW44czV1M2M2

Pretty sure these wouldn't have been on my radar if they hadn't been recommended to me online.... (except maybe the Anton Hur which has a yummy cover)

MaleficentBookDragon I have Draculas but have not read it yet. 6mo

The_Book_Ninja Nearly finished This Thing Between Us…it‘s good 6mo

RaeLovesToRead @MaleficentBookDragon It sounds like a blast! Something they did for fun 🥰 6mo

RaeLovesToRead @The_Book_Ninja I saw at least two Bookstagrammers mention it and it sounded like a weird social horror. Hope to get to it soon!!! 😊 6mo

The_Book_Ninja @RaeLovesToRead I‘ve finished. Not sure I got the ending 🤔 I‘ll reread the last 20 pages again tomorrow 6mo

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Centique

Subdivision: A Novel | J. Robert Lennon

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Absolutely loved this weird twisty little novel! Thank you to @BarbaraBB for putting this on my radar a couple of years ago. I LOVE a novel where your brain is busy trying to figure out what is going on - and thats all i can say about this one without influencing the next person‘s reading experience. Except to say if surreal or fantastical isnt your thing, then this isnt your thing. @Reggie have you read this? I devoured it in one sitting.

Centique Photo: i cant give you an omnipresent crow but here is a NZ fantail. A very friendly flitty little bird 🐦‍⬛ 6mo

CBee What a lovely bird 🐦 6mo

Ruthiella I loved figuring this one out too. 👍 6mo

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BarbaraBB Glad you loved it! I felt exactly the same. Quite the read! 6mo

sarahbarnes Ah, I loved this one so much! 6mo

Reggie I haven‘t but will keep a look out for it. 6mo

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Gleefulreader

My Murder | Katie Williams

so-so

Another book that didn‘t quite work for me although I can see how and why it would be quite popular. A group of women have all been murdered by a serial killer and have been brought back to life by the “Replication Committee”. One woman works to investigate the mystery of her murder. An interesting conceit and covers some heavy issues like post-partum depression, but ultimately it just felt too far fetched for my liking.

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