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GatheringBooks
An Unnecessary Woman | Rabih Alameddine
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#ItTakesAllKinds Day 28: This is a #BkMentionedInBk #BookMentionedInBook kind of novel that I absolutely adored. Took a photo of the page and edited using an app. See my full review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-i6R

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful ❤️ 14h
Eggs That‘s a keeper - well said 🥰 9h
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themonaisa
The Gentleman's Gambit | Evie Dunmore
Bailedbailed

Lost interest and got slightly confused while reading. It seemed to jump around and the plot kind of became an afterthought for me

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BookLove4Ever
The Gentleman's Gambit | Evie Dunmore
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Mehso-so

MMC: Elias - loved.
FMC: Catriona- wanted to smack upside the head.
Loved revisiting the characters from previous books. Especially the first book Bringing Down the Duke, which is still my 5 star favorite. We are told Catriona‘s smart. I guess. The pacing was very slow. Honestly I feel like this story was trying to tackle too many issues at once, and the story didn‘t flow well. I wanted more details on the HEA. Not a vague ending for the couple.

julesG Wasn't a fan of Catriona either. 🙄 1mo
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NikkiCureton
The Gentleman's Gambit | Evie Dunmore
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“The word you said earlier, what did it mean?” she asked.
The way he went quiet said he knew at once what she meant.
“Ta‘abrinee,” he said.
“Yes.”
“It means, bury me.”
“Isn‘t that a bit morbid?”
He stroked the back of her hand with his thumb. “We say it to someone we don‘t want to live without. Hence, we must go first.”
Sorta sappy, but if the love isn‘t like this, I don‘t want it!

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Laughterhp
The Gentleman's Gambit | Evie Dunmore
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Pickpick

All the romance books I‘ve read so far in February! Been reading a lot but haven‘t had much time for social media and posting!

Hope everyone else‘s reading is going well this month!

KadaGul @Laughterhp What did you think 🤔 of Exes & O? I heard good things about it and picked up from a local Library Reading Challenge. 1mo
Laughterhp @KadaGul It was okay. Not my favorite romance. I didn‘t really like some stuff the MC did. But it wasn‘t awful. Hopefully you‘ll like it more than me! 1mo
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IndoorDame
The Collected Works | Kahlil Gibran
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TheSpineView 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
dabbe ❤️💜🩷 2mo
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Adventures-of-a-French-Reader
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Pickpick

3/5
During Lebanon civil war, Zeina and her brother wait for her parents to come back from visiting their grandmother. As the bombing grows in intensity, we are waiting with them & their neighbors. Tension is palpable, past events are shared, allowing us to get a little more acquainted with the neighbors.
Some illustrations worked well to express the tension. But the book shortness makes it harder to create a deep connection with the characters.

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Auroraafa
The Gentleman's Gambit | Evie Dunmore
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Pickpick

I love her books, this book just got to me. I wish I could have this kind of happy ending. My most recent love story is so similar but instead just ended.

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Kimberlone
The Gentleman's Gambit | Evie Dunmore
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Pickpick

Wasn‘t my favorite of this series, but I still enjoyed the romance. Following Catriona, it concludes with the passage of the Married Women‘s Protection Act, which has been the goal of the 4 suffragette friends. It also deals with some tougher subjects: colonialism & neurodivergence. It did get bogged down with overexplaining the stolen antiquities market & colonialism in the Middle East. Enjoyed the POV chapters featuring the other suffragettes.

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behudd
The Gentleman's Gambit | Evie Dunmore
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Mehso-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫There was a lot Dunmore was trying to accomplish in this book, & I think that got in the way of her usual easy storytelling. There were many flashbacks for both characters & so much historical information that the main story was sometimes hard to find. I enjoyed all I learned about East/West relations in the late 1800s, unfortunately it just felt a bit heavy handed. I loved books 1 & 3 in this series, tho, and will always recommend those.

julesG The historical information was bogging it down, wasn't it? 4mo
behudd @julesG it was, which is such a bummer because I feel like her other 3 didn‘t have that issue. I‘m wondering if it was the pressure of this being the last book, she felt she had to fit in as much as she could? 4mo
julesG That's what I thought too. She wanted to cram in everything, including mental health problems, demanding families, the fear of foreigners, foreign affairs, etc etc. Instead of cramming this book to the brim she should have thought about a fifth book about Peregrin finding a suffragist of his own. 4mo
behudd @julesG oohh yes! I want to read that! 4mo
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