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#RiseUpReads October 2025

It's Elementary by Elise Bryant

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Content warnings: racism, domestic abuse, kidnapping, bullying, classism, murder, infidelity

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What can I say about this book? 😬

I didn‘t like Tegan or the other “main” characters, in fact they irritated me a lot 🤪😒🫢😬- considering I had only read The Housemaid series by this author, this wasn‘t a great start to the rest of her books, it was readable and kept me gripped just enough to get to the end

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3.75/5

Really good thriller! 4 out of 5 stars

I found this book weirdly compelling to start with and then it started to drag a little. I‘m not a sci fi fan so that may have affected my opinion. It began to get somewhat repetitive and I found it just an odd story. Thought provoking at times, though, with an interesting ending which redeemed it a little for me. “One day all humans will be made this way!” (car advert) 😆 Oh, I do hope not. 😯. F2f book group read. 3⭐️

This author was a suggestion from @NatalieR! I really enjoyed it and it scratched the wilderness mystery itch that Peter Heller used to scratch (before I finished all of his fiction). Thanks, @NatalieR !!! 😊

“Sometimes it's not the people that change. It's the mask that falls off.”

Dark psychological thriller with several POVs and timelines that threw me around a bit and became confusing. But good twists and voices to for audioscrapbooking.

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It was nice to see how Amanda and Evelyn‘s friendship came to be and how strong it is. Getting flashbacks have the book a different feel than the others that I enjoyed 🥰 I also loved the insight in Wills life 📖

September 6, 2025 I would give this book 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. The book, as usual, was put down maybe twice, or three times. However, when I picked it up the fourth time, I actually continued to read because the pages would go by fast. After halfway, the story sped up and@more was revealed.

September 6, 2025 Welp, good news is that Abby and Sam are alive. Monica shot herself because she knew that Abby had won. As a result, in the end, Abby and Sam were able to keep the baby. The baby that was delivered safely in the NICU. The baby was named David: very small, beautiful, and looked a lot like Sam.
Abby was very happy to have finally called herself a parent because she and Sam were waiting to have a kid of their own.

Book Haul - husband wanted to spend time walking around town while we waited for the movie to start. Of course book store = book haul 🖤🖤🖤🖤