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MaleficentBookDragon
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I won a book from #goodreads !

ChaoticMissAdventures Lucky!! I never win 😂 2w
Aims42 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Congrats!!! 2w
bookandbedandtea How exciting! 2w
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JulietteReadsALot
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Pickpick

4.5/5
Well-written historical fiction about how war changes society and social rules. I found the characters diverse and well-developed, and I liked the evolution of the different characters.
While not everyone gets a happy end, it's still a feel-good book, full of humor. It offered me a perfect escape ;)

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willaful
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Immersive historical fiction set in an English tourist town just post World War I, as a competent young woman, a naturalized German citizen, and a now-disabled fighter from the upper class try to find their places in a changing world that's still chock full of classism, sexism, ableism and bigotry. Well drawn, lovable characters, lively action, and some slow-burn romance make it very much my cup of tea, but I was thrown by the ending (cont.)

willaful which felt like the author wanted to throw in some literary cred ala the Great Gatsby but somehow still pull off a quick happy ending. It left me far more disappointed than I expected from such an otherwise excellent book.

#Roll100 #FourFoursin25
@PuddleJumper @Laureldhel

(I liked Picket Cricket for this because it fits the conflict between the laborers and the upper classes.)
1mo
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kspenmoll
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Pickpick

1932.An atmosphere of menace pervades this novel.The mutilated body of a young girl is found in the woods near ex-Inspector John Madden‘s home.More young girls bodies are discovered.
The specter of Nazism in Germany is rearing its head, & spreading.Is there a connection?
The author skillfully weaves psychological elements into the multilayered characters‘ portrayals.Compelling. Riveting.Gripping.Intense.Taut.Nail-biting.Menacing…
#serieslove2025

CoffeeK8 Oh this is a great series! 1mo
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willaful

#WhereAreYouMonday I'm in post WWI England - twice, since I'm also reading The Secret Adversary. It's a rough time but perhaps things are looking up.

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kspenmoll
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Poe & I are in the UK with Inspector Jon Madden. Escaping again. #WhereareyouMonday

dabbe Escape is good and sometimes necessary. #preciouspoe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
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SW-T
This Side of Murder | Anna Lee Huber
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Working from home today and enjoying my #audiolisten and candle.

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rachelsbrittain
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Pickpick

This book was everything I want in a historical fiction book. A young woman in post-WWI England makes a bold new friends running Hazelbourne's Motorcycle and Flying Club who changes her life. It's a book about class and war and pandemics and societal change and feminism and racism/ xenophobia and so many other things. I absolutely adored it.

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mesquite
River of Darkness | Rennie Airth
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A historical mystery (Post WWI), with an England still coming to grips with the dynamics of life after a bloody and brutal war. Read like a modern day mystery in a 1920‘s language. John Madden, scared inside and outside is tasked with finding a brutal serial killer and starts implementing theories of investigation that I‘m not sure if they‘d be historically accurate, but it doesn‘t distract from a story that keeps the pages turning. 4 ⭐️

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TorieStorieS
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Mehso-so

This is the second book of Simonson‘s that I‘ve read with my book club—& though I liked this more than THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR, I still didn‘t love this slow-paced novel. Set just after WWI, the book centers mostly around Constance, visiting the seaside for the summer season as the caretaker of her passed mother‘s wealthier best friend‘s mother, Mrs.Fog. Constance needs to figure out her next steps but the final party spoiled the romance for me!

JenlovesJT47 I tried reading one of her books a few years ago and couldn‘t get into it 😕 6mo
TorieStorieS @JenlovesJT47 Yeah— the only reason I finished the two I read was for book club! And this time, the friend who picked it, didn‘t even finish it!! 🤣 6mo
JenlovesJT47 Lol that‘s funny, glad it‘s not just me. I think the one I started was also for a book club! 6mo
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