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My library hold for this came in too late for the #CampLitsy25 discussion, but not so late that I couldn‘t have posted a review long before now! 🤦🏻‍♀️

The short chapters and multiple perspectives kept me reading, wanting to find out what everyone was hiding, and then—how it would play out when they discovered each others‘ secrets. I felt for each one of the characters, falling in love with them even in the contradictions and complexities of ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …their mysteries, secrets, and withholding. All of this against the backdrop of a looming storm that mirrors the building relational suspense. I loved this, but ultimately it fell a little short for me in the way it treats its female characters. Even so, its characters LIVE on the page. Orly, Fen, Raf, Dominic, and Rowan—and the island and the weather, themselves characters in the tale—will stay with me for a long time. (edited) 19h

BarbaraBB I still think about this book 💝 14h

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Sapphire

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

So excited to receive my #auldlangspine2026 list from @Lesliereadsalot I have not read of any of these titles! I do own the tagged title so will start there, but the highlighted ones are all ones I am very interested in reading. Thank you @monalyisha for another great match. I count @CBee and @TheKidUpstairs as Litsy friends from prior matches and from this list hope the same with Leslie this year. #alspine #auldlangspine

squirrelbrain Such a great list! 4d

Lesliereadsalot I hope you love these books as much as I did! Wild Dark Shore is such a good story. Happy reading! 3d

CBee @Lesliereadsalot glad to see another fan of Woman on the Verge! It was on my list as well 😊 @Sapphire some great choices here 💚 3d

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Lesliereadsalot @CBee Isn‘t this so fun? 3d

CBee @Lesliereadsalot yes! So glad I decided to do it again 👏🏻👏🏻 3d

JuniperWilde I love this list! North Woods is exceptional 3d

monalyisha Love to hear about relationships formed! Thank you! And enjoy. 😊 3d

Lesliereadsalot @JuniperWilde A Language of Limbs is really something! Wild Dark Shore too. 3d

AmyG The tagged and North Woods are just fabulous. 3d

Sapphire @monalyisha thank you! It can‘t be said enough. You have a gift and share your magic with us! 3d

Sapphire @JuniperWilde I love it too! Almost all completely new to me. But I see these titles on several lists. And look at this enthusiasm. I have good times ahead 3d

Sapphire @Lesliereadsalot happy reading to you too! 3d

Sapphire @AmyG thank you. I hope to get to at least all 4 highlighted. Probably not all 4 in January. But we have a cold spell in Texas so who knows! 3d

TheKidUpstairs 💕💕💕 This looks like a great list! Saltwater and Woman on the Verge are both on the list I got from @CBee and Wild Dark Shore was on both of our lists! 3d

CBee @TheKidUpstairs I actually grabbed Saltwater from the library after seeing @Lesliereadsalot rave about it 😊 3d

Chelsea.Poole Fab list @Lesliereadsalot —several of these have made my list this year or in years prior. 3d

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Writeme

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

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Incredible! Part dystopian climate change thriller and part love story, this is really a story of motherhood and grief. I‘ve lived all of her books so far, but this may be my favorite. The ending is crazy good, and every page is intense and beautiful. Can‘t recommend it enough!

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Michellesibs

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

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Shearwater, an island between Tasmania and the Antarctica is home to 4 people, until a woman washes up on the shore barely alive.
As the tides get higher, the moody skies and angry waves take on a character of their own all the while providing an atmospheric backdrop for a plot that literally had me on the edge of my sofa with my heart hammering in my chest.
I went into this book knowing nothing, and so should you.

WanderingBookaneer One of my top five reads of this year 6d

BennettBookworm Omg agreed- best to go in knowing nothing! ❤️ 6d

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NatalieR

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

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This is an incredibly beautiful and profoundly moving novel. The sole inhabitants of Shearwater Island faced increasing challenges due to the relentless effects of climate change. It‘s an excellent read for nature enthusiasts, offering beautiful prose and a gripping narrative. It‘s a book that has the power to tear your heart out, but I couldn‘t help but love it nonetheless.

Full Review abookandadog.com/blog/wild-dark-shore

NatalieR @Pedrocamacho This might be a book you would enjoy as you wait for the next Heller novel. 🙂 7d

CoverToCoverGirl It was brilliant. I cried my eyes out. 7d

Suet624 Great review!! 7d

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BennettBookworm Love this book and review! 7d

mcctrish This book had everything 7d

Pedrocamacho @NatalieR Thanks, @NatalieR ! 7d

Daisey Great review! 7d

NatalieR @CoverToCoverGirl I understand! It broke my heart. ♥️ 6d

NatalieR @Suet624 Thank you so much! 😊 6d

NatalieR @BennettBookworm I loved the book too. Thanks for the compliment! 😊 6d

NatalieR @mcctrish It certainly did! 🥰 6d

NatalieR @Pedrocamacho My pleasure! 🤓 6d

NatalieR @Daisey Thank you! 🙏 6d

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SPEAK SOFTLY AMONG ICEBERGS: , our hours, and other media melting fast: a (found) novel pimp-scratch-that palimpsest | R. P. Singletary

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rpsingletary LOGLINE: Man faces loss, travels, heals. Metaphor of Istanbul: shape-shifting city:: we all have many names, but meaning? We must add ourselves.

A sexually ambiguous man falls to pieces after a child-death and his marriage's demise. He turns to nearly every drug imaginable (religion, travel, sex, talk-therapy, family, folklore...) before reconnecting with a past love thought foregone; meanwhile, he comes into the inheritance of an ancestral...

SPEAK SOFTLY AMONG ICEBERGS: , our hours, and other media melting fast: a (found) novel pimp-scratch-that palimpsest

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SailorJohn

Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

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When places are remote and far from civilized society, strange things happen!

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