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3⭐️ Thought the book was ok; will probably have to reread this book again to better understand the story better #historicalfiction #2025 #fiction #dualtimeline

October #bookspinbingo board complete! Looks like it will be be a great month!

Love the taut, straightforward prose & unpredictable plot. 18-year-old Maud, living on an allotment parcel in Oklahoma in 1928, watching for snakes, baking biscuits, dreaming of electric lights & city life. Beautifully evoked, rich setting. But ugh the ending—tacked on, rushed & phony—strong, stubborn Maud “saved” by the city boy. Family, community, land, feuds, Creek & Cherokee nation. 2015

#bookmail came today from Amazon, BOTM, and Thriftbooks! A nice stack for a planned self readathon this Friday night. 📚 🕯 ☕️

This book gave me so much anxiety! All Ember does is lie. She just does things without really thinking it through. I read about 80% and had to take a break because she did this thing that I knew was going to bite her in the butt. Finished it up and am glad I did. It was a nice lesson for her to learn but still.

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Some historical overlap that I first learned about while reading Killers Of The Moon Flower (David Grann) but with classic Lisa Wingate dual timelines perfection.

This thriller was really powerful and so compulsively paced, I couldn‘t put it down. This was a new author for me, I believe a debut, but you‘d never know it with the seamless way she crafted this story. An archeologist working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs is drawn into a mystery from her childhood that she thought she left behind. Set in Oklahoma and Rhode Island, this story was inspired by true events.