so-soWhy do I keep reading Miranda books if they‘re usually only so-so or pan for me? I‘m not sure. This one was definitely #MoreMehThanYeah.
Hazel is the daughter of tiny Mirror Lake‘s police chief. When he suddenly dies and a drought uncovers two sunken cars in the lake, she must piece together family secrets — including those held by her two brothers.
panUgh. 🙄 Once upon a time I was a teenager who had yet to be steeped in the well-worn, time-wasting, conflict-generating tropes of romance novels. In the decades since, I have had my fill. Which is why I was so profoundly annoyed to encounter them in a beloved historical mystery series with a romance subplot between characters I consider too smart to get caught up in this BULLSHIT. 1/3
panThis was a #MoreMehThanYeah read.
Two timelines, one set in 1930s, one in 1880s.
Both about a Scottish woman taking care of their ailing fathers, both forced to work, one set mainly in Scotland the other mainly on the US east coast.
In 1930s, Emmie has come back to the UK from Australia, where she got a doctorate in botany and spent time discovering plants in jungles and deserts. ⬇️
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This was #MoreMehThanYeah
Daphne was dumped by her fiancé Peter. Miles was dumped by his girlfriend Petra. Petra is Peter's BFF. Peter decides, at his bachelor party, that Petra is the woman for him, not Daphne. Daphne now needs to move out. She can have a room in Miles's flat, since Petra moved out of Miles's flat to move in with Peter. When the wedding invitation for Petra and Peter's wedding... ⬇️
pickMaking my way through the "Impossible Meet Cute Collection"
This one was #MoreMehThanYeah until that unexpected (and rather tiny thing) that gave the story an interesting twist.
Rosie treats her sister to a luxurious spa day and gets trapped in the floating tank. An embarrassing situation turns into an impossible meet cute.
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Making my way through the GraphicAudio editions of Murderbot: book 3 is my current car-audiobook, re-read books 6 and 5 this week. (Book 7 is expected to be published in April)
Geneva was #MoreMehThanYeah
Cluelessly Yours - contemporary romance, not as funny as I expected
Never Wager with a Wallflower - ARC, third book in the series, took me two weeks to finish 🙄
Re-reading Emily Wilde, because I had preordered the audiobook ⬇️
pan#audiobook #ARC #NetGalley #MoreMehThanYeah
Underwhelming.
It's 1920. Fallen New York heiress Ruby now lives in Exeter, UK. Her bookshop partner asks her to deliver a trunk full of books to the pellar of a smallish Cornwall community. Coincidentally the town is near Penryth Hall where the former love of her life now lives with husband and child. Ruby stays with the couple and the husband is murdered in the night - by The Curse, of course.
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panThis was #MoreMehThanYeah - 600+ pages of bland characters and a plot that didn't make a lot of sense, and talking cats. It was a chore to get through.
Read this #ARC because I liked Butcher's Dresden Files and because the second book in the series was published on 7th November (my next #NetGalley #ARC).
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panWorking on my #NetGalley #MountARC - this was published in 2022
This was a #MoreMehThanYeah read for me. I thought the main characters were too much like teenagers who held a grudge against each other for no apparent reason. That's what made the book dreg on for me. The eventual HEA felt weird.
so-soMiscommunication trope done a bit differently. Still predictable.
Paraphrasing the words of the MC: why can't people talk to each other?
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