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readingjedi
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Panpan

PAN INCOMING!

I've always maintained the best YA transcends the genre. This does not. It's histrionic teen drama at its most self-centered & emotionally stunted. The characters are clichés, the responses predictable, the action minimal, the development virtually non-existent. Does the FMC fall for the bad boy with a tragic backstory & a heart of gold? Why, yes, she does - how DID you know?! Intriguing premise wasted, this was shallow & boring.

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AmyG
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Thank you Adam Grant.

#HailTheBail

TheBookHippie I bail so much more often as I age 😂😵‍💫👀 3mo
AmyG @TheBookHippie I am on the cusp of bailing on a book….so I needed this. 3mo
TheBookHippie @AmyG I donated all my #allhailthebail books and TBR I‘m never going to read to the woman‘s shelter .. they were ecstatic! Newer published books and not romance 😂🙃♥️. 3mo
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AnnCrystal It is necessary, we don't want to make reading feel like a chore...reading needs to be either informative or like little vacations, especially these days 📚💝. 3mo
Leftcoastzen I‘m more that way now too! I think the more we read the more we have a sense of what we will like/not like regardless if a book is highly praised or not. I am painfully aware I don‘t have infinite years to read , so , not working for me ? #hailthebail 3mo
kspenmoll I have never had a problem bailing from a book- not enough time to read something I don‘t like - I do give it a few chapters- then done! 3mo
AlaMich The “sunk cost fallacy” is one of the most useful things a person can learn, I believe. Would save a lot of grief. 3mo
dabbe @AlaMich 🎯🎯🎯! 3mo
ShelleyBooksie His books are great! 3mo
AmyG They are! @ShelleyBooksie 3mo
Susanita @AlaMich ITA about sunk costs…with books and otherwise. 3mo
MemoirsForMe @AmyG @TheBookHippie Life‘s too short to spend reading a book you don‘t like or don‘t relate to. 👵🏻🙌🏻 3mo
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Bec_lectic
The Blue Hour | Paula Hawkins
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Boring..simply just boring. I don‘t even know how I finished it but I did and the ending made me even more unhappy that I didn‘t DNF it. I‘ve loved Hawkins other books but this one for me was truly a dud.

#fanofthepan

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Roary47
Secret History | Donna Tartt
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A Secret history earned this spot without trouble.

PuddleJumper 🤣🤣 I really liked the secret history when I read it 3mo
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DieAReader
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#Read2025 #Wardens2025 #ReadYourKobo

Disappointed that this was more like a novella than a full length series intro. The pace was too quick for believability & lacked true depth. I won‘t be carrying on this series.

CoverToCoverGirl Yikes! Next. 4mo
DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl 🤷🏻‍♀️👋🏻👋🏻 4mo
DieAReader @dabbe 💖I just love your # tags!! (edited) 4mo
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5feet.of.fury
So Thirsty | Rachel Harrison
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I wanted to love this after how much I adored Such Sharp Teeth, but I did not. Sloane is so wishywashy, her best friend Naomi is a frustrating hot mess but I would have liked the book better if it followed her. I didn‘t care about the romance subplot with probably-not-dracula. There‘s no metaphor here, the beginning had Sloane reflecting on time slipping & her obsession with aging but that falls away as the action starts. I didn‘t get it. 🧛🏻‍♀️

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Fortifiedbybooks
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Poetry just isn't my thing. I absolutely love The Bell Jar, but I would need to take a class to understand her poems, and even then, I think I would struggle. I'm glad that I finally read this short book, even though it took #BookSpin to get me to pick it up. At least now it's #OffMyShelf

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JacqMac
Watch Out for Her | Samantha M. Bailey
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Canada Reads. Book 3. How did this even make the list?! I almost bailed, but I thought no, there must be more to it. Maybe I‘m wrong. So I read it all. I was not wrong. It fits the formula of a thriller. But it‘s not thrilling. It‘s boring and predictable and I regret wasting my time. I also have no idea how it fits the theme of changing the narrative.

JacqMac @TheKidUpstairs I agree with you on this one. I‘m also still waiting to fall in love with something. I only have two left to read. It‘s not looking good this year. lol 4mo
TheKidUpstairs @JacqMac I'm glad I'm not the only one! Which two do you have left? I'm reading Dandelion right now, it's good so far, definitely my favourite of the fiction selections. But nothing has excited me like in past years. I still think about The Future, Greenwood, Butter Honey Pig Bread. This year is just so underwhelming and forgettable. 4mo
JacqMac @TheKidUpstairs I have Dandelion and A Two Spirit Journey left. I agree, there have been many better years. 4mo
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readingjedi
Family Meal | Bryan Washington
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Did not like this at all. I found the dialogue particularly bad - the characters spoke to one another in a manner that seemed all belligerent "F**k you!"s and zero meaningful communication. A lot of the sexual detail is totally gratuitous (an ejaculations count?! Every time?!) and really unsexy. And the characters are self-absorbed, one dimensional & immature. Even worse - they're just not that interesting! And they don't develop much either ??

Ruthiella I felt the same about his debut novel. That style is just not for me (edited) 4mo
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Blueroseis
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I struggled with this book, once you put it down there wasn't much incentive to pick it up again. When a body was discovered in an unusual position I believed that an interesting story was about to be revealed. What transpired was a tour around the outskirts of Birmingham visiting AA call boxes and not much else. It became quite obvious how the body had been transported and that all the cases may eventually be linked. It was a monotonous read.

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