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WildAlaskaBibliophile
Truly, Darkly, Deeply | Victoria Selman
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Look what arrived today! Yippee! I can't wait until the 13th! 🩷🖤💜🖤🩷🎉 #ValloweenSwap #ValloweenSwap2025

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BBowling
Wrong Place, Wrong Time | Gillian McAllister
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Admittedly I had never given much consideration to time travel. As I read this book I couldn‘t escape thinking about it. I mean could be escaping time in my dreaming? Day dreaming? IDK, but know I found this book wildly captivating. To go back in time to understand what was incomprehensible. To change that one thing…

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Elizabeth2
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Pickpick

This dark psychological thriller kept me in suspense until the end! Amelia & Adam take a weekend getaway to a remote Scottish locale, hoping to save their marriage. Mixed in are anniversary letters from one spouse to another, adding intrigue and character depth. Short chapters make this book propulsive and hard to put down. Best read blind, so I won‘t say much more. Be patient and trust the author to take you on a ride. ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 3.5/5❤️📚

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Arvena
Family Remains | Lisa Jewell
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This sequel paints a bigger picture of a horrible story of messed up family/broken people. The story is interesting, complex, dark, creepy and disturbing.

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TheBookgeekFrau
The Perfect Ghost | Linda Barnes
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Bailedbailed

I didn't realize this was a murder mystery. I tried to stick it out, but I just don't care.
#HailTheBail

9/80

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

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DieAReader
Fractured | Karin Slaughter
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#Wardens2025 #Read2025 #SeriesLove2025

Gotta say, I liked this one a sight more than ‘Triptych‘. I‘m still not a big fan of Angie‘s but, I‘m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt for now.

Enchanted_Bibliophile I'm up to date with the series and I still don't like her. 1d
DieAReader @Enchanted_Bibliophile 😬🙄Oy! I guess we can‘t like everyone in every series😂🤷🏻‍♀️ 23h
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Bzosche
What Have You Done? | Shari Lapena
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“How many ways, I think, can a girl be assaulted? I never got to live my life. I never got to live to be old enough, to be unattractive enough to be left alone. To finally just be.”

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BookMaven9
My Cousin Rachel | Daphne Du Maurier
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Mehso-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️While this author can definitely write gothic novels like no other, and this one holds in terms of style, but oof these characters! They took stars away especially the narrator, Phillip! This guy was beyond dumb, to the point of irritating more and not allowing to me to enjoy this this more.

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BooksandCoffee4Me
The Wife Upstairs: A Novel | Freida McFadden
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I‘m tutoring incarcerated college-age young people and want to give them books. County officer says: “it has to be a paperback and appropriate (ie, no overly sexual content, no gruesome killings, etc)” — one of the girls has read all of #friedamcfadden books, and wondering if anyone here can give me suggestions for more books to get her — she loves #mysteries Thanks!

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TheKidUpstairs
Watch Out for Her | Samantha M. Bailey
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Panpan

Third book for #CanadaReads and so far I'm not overly impressed with this year's contenders. I'm all for genre fiction in the Canada Reads list, and I know that there are domestic thrillers that can contribute and propel discussion forward with regards to nationally important topics, but this certainly ain't it.

Taken alone, this still didn't work for me. I actively disliked characters that I'm pretty sure I was supposed to feel for. Cont'd

TheKidUpstairs I really didn't care at all about the resolution, didn't even really get what we were waiting for. And there was far too many "if I had known what would happen" "they can never know what I did" type hooks that took way too long to pay off and felt really anticlimactic. 2d
TheKidUpstairs As a Canada Reads selection, I have no idea what is here to champion as a book to "change how we see, share, and experience the world around us". I'm interested to see how Maggie MacNeill defends this one, but I predict it'll be first out. 2d
squirrelbrain Even the cover looks ‘generic‘! 1d
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LeahBergen The inclusion of this surprised me (for all the reasons you say)! 1d
JacqMac This one is up next on my TBR. I think they made some puzzling choices this year. The long list was more promising. 1d
xicanti This is actually my favourite of the four I‘ve read so far, in large part because I read it as a thriller about the ways women are socialized to view each other and the distrust this breeds. (I also found it nice and creepy.) It‘ll be interesting to see what approach its defender takes, but I‘m pretty sure it‘s going out in the first round due to the competition‘s usual anti-popular-literature stance. 1d
TheKidUpstairs @xicanti I'm glad it worked better for you! And I can definitely see your take on the socialization of distrust among women, it'll be interesting to see how it is defended. It is unfortunate that popular and genre fiction tends to be voted out in the first round, simply because of what it is. Last year especially, I thought Mirian Njoh did a really good job of defending her choice, and it was not the first one I would have sent home. 5h
TheKidUpstairs @JacqMac I'll be interested to see your thoughts! It has good reviews here on Litsy, so it very well might just be me. I totally agree with you about the long list, there were definitely some better titles that weren't chosen. 5h
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