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Hilary427

Hilary427

Joined December 2019

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I really enjoyed the first 80% of this book! I liked both main characters and flew through it. The last 20% wasn‘t bad, just not nearly as good as the first part. And the ending seemed abrupt. But I love historical fiction and knew nothing about this matter (contraception in Ireland in the 70‘s) before hand. (33)
⭐️: 3.75/5

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Mehso-so

This was just so-so for me. Because it was quite slow-slow. Excellent message though, I just found the MC uninteresting. (32)
⭐️: 3/5

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Sign Here | Claudia Lux
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I LOVED this book! It was so unique and entertaining! Only downfall was certain parts were hard to remember, but that‘s more my brains fault versus the book 😂 (31)
⭐️: 4.25/5

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The Quickie | James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
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Mehso-so

I meeeeeannnn….this was not good, but oddly readable? I started and finished it today. But the MC was a train wreck and it was all just wildly unbelievable. Oh and Alex has terrible taste in men 😂 (30)
⭐️: 2.75/5

ChaoticMissAdventures I am pretty sure that is his trademark. Not good, but somehow super readable. 😂 1mo
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An easy to read, quick thriller! Was a BIT far fetched and the end dragged on a tad, but overall, I liked it! (29)
⭐️: 4/5

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THE ENDING DESTROYED ME (28)
⭐️: 4.25/5

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Black Woods, Blue Sky | Eowyn Ivey, Ruth Hulbert (illustrator)
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Mehso-so

I can see WHY people liked this…I just was not one of them. I‘m too literal of a person to really get into a book with a bear/man as a character, 😆 BUT, it did make me miss the mountains! (27)
Star: 3/5

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This book was so good, and I hate gaming! I didn‘t love either of the main characters but it was just so well written! And Marx? UGH! (26)
⭐️: 4.25/5

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Dora: A Headcase | Lidia Yuknavitch
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Mehso-so

I just didn‘t “get it”. 🤷🏼‍♀️ (25)
⭐️: 2.75/5

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Mehso-so

This was a decent, quick read. Not amazing, not terrible. I found it hard to really believe or care about a “love affair” that lasted 2 months w two teenagers truly had such long lasting effects, but maybe I‘m a cynic 😝 (24)
⭐️: 3/5

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Great book! Short and sweet. No big surprises, but just really well written. (23)
⭐️: 4/5

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The Tender Bar: A Memoir | J. R. Moehringer
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Mehso-so

I have mixed feelings about this one! The parts of the book not centered around the bar were great, but I got very bored with the bar and its cast of characters. And none of them were memorable to me, minus Uncle Charlie. By the end, I truly didn‘t know who was who. Or care. And the epilogue was surprising, in a really sad way. (22)
⭐️: 3/5

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The Rose Code | Kate Quinn
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This book was approximately 300 pages too long. The “friendship” between the three main characters was never believable, I don‘t think anything happened in the first 450 pages, and the whole thing was just boring. I am surprised so many people loved it - it was a real yawn for me! (21)
⭐️: 2/5

perfectsinner I love Quinn but have no interest in reading this one for some reason 4mo
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Playground | Richard Powers
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This book will stay with me for a long, long time. I really liked the first 75% of The Overstory, but then it lost me. This book is not like that. I can‘t really articulate all the things it made me think, and feel. And the vote at the end? Every point was valid, and true! So good. (But I do think Rafi kinda sucked). (20)
⭐️: 4.5/5

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This was intriguing in that I wanted to know how it would end, and it kept me reading…but the ending was unsatisfying. But still a good read! (19)
⭐️ : 3.75/5

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This was weird, and good. I would have preferred less flash backs, and the last chapter could have been cut entirely. But it was interesting, especially in that it was written pre COVID! (18)
⭐️: 3.75/5

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Dinosaurs | LYDIA. MILLET
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I loved this strange, little book! It was an odd book, about nothing in particular, but I loved the characters and read it in 2 days. (17)
⭐️: 4/5

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Oh, Haymitch! Loved seeing the parallels between him and Katniss, and I LOVED all the other HG characters who were woven into this story too. It was strange, knowing how his Games end, but still having this weird little hope that things would be different, ha! A teeny tiny bit too long, but still great! (16)
⭐️: 4.25/5

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O Beautiful | Jung Yun
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This is a beautiful book, and hard for me to describe. Parts are very uncomfortable as I‘ve never read an author who so accurately describes how scary it can be to be a woman. I didn‘t love the MC, and things do not really “end”, but it‘s a beautiful book. (15)
⭐️: 4/5

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty ❄️ 6mo
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Malorie | Josh Malerman
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I read BirdBox when it came out and LOVED IT! Somehow I missed that he wrote a sequel, whoops! It wasn‘t as tense as BB but I liked Malorie overall. The end seemed to come out of nowhere and wrapped things up a little too nicely, but still a solid book. (14)
⭐️: 4/5

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Bossypants | Tina Fey
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Mehso-so

Eh. Kinda slow. Some parts were funny. Kinda hopped all over. (13)
⭐️: 2.75/5

DimeryRene I wasn‘t impressed with this one either! 6mo
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Victorian Psycho | Virginia Feito
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This book was….weird. Which is part of the reason I‘m picking it. It was almost like satirical horror? Is that a thing? Honestly not sure, I‘m not a horror queen myself. Easy to read though, laugh-out-loud in some parts as well! (12)
⭐️: 3.5/5

ChaoticMissAdventures I want to get to this! Super unpopular opinion I really enjoyed her 6mo
BarbaraBB I want this just for its cover! 6mo
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Isola: A Novel | Allegra Goodman
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This is a book I never would have chosen for myself (16th century France, oof) but it was so good and I‘m pumped my book club chose it! I devoured it in a weekend. I thought the island section dragged a teeny bit, but really enjoyed it as a whole! (11)
⭐️: 4.25/5

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Mockingjay | Suzzane Collins
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The final re-read of the series. So good! Sobbed at the end. (10)
⭐️ : 4/5

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Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins
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Another re-read for me. I forgot how much I love the Hunger Games! This one isn‘t as good as the first, but it‘s close. (9)
⭐️: 4/5

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This is a re-read for me…. Honestly I‘ve probably read them all 5-6 times. THG is to me what Harry Potter is to a lot of other people 😆. Can‘t wait for the prequel to come out next month! (8)
⭐️: 4.5/5

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James: A Novel | Percival Everett
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I found the first third of this book a little slow, but the rest was so good! I ended up crying when I was describing it to my partner. There‘s so much pain and trauma, but also humor and clarity. (7)
⭐️: 4/5

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A very typical FM thriller - fast paced, quick read, a few holes…but overall entertaining! (6)
⭐️: 3.5/5

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Burn: A novel | Peter Heller
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I LOVED The River, which was my first PH book, but was not impressed with The Painter or The Lone Ranger, so I was hesitant to try this one. I‘m so glad I did though, this book was amazing! I read it in a day. The ONLY complaint is the Hannah side story - it didn‘t add anything and I agree with other reviewers that PH is not great at writing female characters. (5)
⭐️: 4.25/5

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Black Sheep | Rachel Harrison
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This was odd, but fun! And also deeply sad at parts. Fast read, done in a day. Wish we could have gotten into Constance‘s head a bit more! (4)
3.75/5

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I liked this one - it took a hot second for me to get into it, since there are so many characters and timelines. And it was too long. But it kept me wanting to read, with a few surprises thrown in, too! (3)
⭐️: 3.75/5

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Moon of the Turning Leaves | Waubgeshig Rice
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The end of this book absolutely gutted me! I loved the first book, and this is almost as good. The first 100 pages are slow, but the last 200 are not. I hope he writes a third! (2)
⭐️: 4/5

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The Wilds: A Novel | Sarah Pearse
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This book was bad. Really bad! Elin is a terrible cop, the Penn/Steed thing was just pointless, the story was messy, I didn‘t care about any of the characters and it just draggggged on. Rough start to the year 😆 (1)
⭐️: 2/5

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Tender Is the Flesh | Agustina Mara Bazterrica
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This book. This Book! OH MY GOD THIS BOOK! I devoured it (see what I did there 😝). Read it in a day and can‘t stop thinking about it. (57)
⭐️: 4.75/5

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This was between a So-So and a Pan. The actual stories of UAP are super cool, but this book gets so bogged down by government acronyms, and bureaucratic bullshit, I struggled to follow along. (56)
⭐️: 2.5/5

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Loved it! Couldn‘t put it down, I just had to know what was going to happen! (55)
⭐️: 4/5

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Dark August | Katie Tallo
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This was too long, had way too many characters, and just didn‘t hold my attention. Also, a GP vet doesn‘t just randomly do a kidney transplant on a dog, FYI 😆 And Gus, the MC, made mistake after mistake after mistake. (54)
⭐️: 2/5

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Short and stressful! It was like being a lobster in a pot of lukewarm water set on a stove, heating up so slowly you don‘t realize you‘re dying until it‘s too late. And I mean that in the best way! (53)
⭐️: 4/5

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This is not my typical book, but it was a book club pick…and I loved it! And now I want to expand the teas I drink 😆. At its‘ core, this is a book about a mother‘s love. (52)
⭐️: 4/5

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I don‘t know, guys…this book has so many great reviews from people who loved it, and I just did NOT. I don‘t like the way CW writes - in every conversation Walk had, the person he was talking to used his name COPIOUSLY, to the point of literal distraction. That‘s not how people talk! And Duchess? 13 year old girls don‘t talk like that! I liked the story, but not how it was written/how the main characters were portrayed. (51)
⭐️: 2.75/5

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I really enjoyed this, minus truly disliking Rose. I liked the three different POVs. APs books are hit or miss for me, but this one was a hit! (50)
⭐️: 4/5

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Mehso-so

This was ok - it‘s hard, because The River was the first book by PH that I ever read and I absolutely LOVED it. But I just can‘t find that in any of his other books! Not the worst, not the best. (49)
⭐️: 3/5

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Although the MC was moderately annoying, McFadden knows how to write in a way that keeps you reading! Another easy, quick thriller. (48)
⭐️: 3.5/5

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The Therapist | B A Paris
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This was decent! I read it in a day - just a quick, easy-to-read thriller. There are some holes (buy a camera for your home, lady) and Alice was annoying AF, but all in all it was enjoyable! (47)
⭐️: 3.5/5

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel | Barbara Kingsolver
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Mehso-so

Maybe it was the fact that several people talked this book up to me that it fell somewhat flat…it just didn‘t live up to the hype! It‘s well written but I didn‘t connect with (or remember) many of the characters other than Demon. Who is Martha? Who is Ruby? Who is Swap-Out? By the end of the 500+ page book, I truly couldn‘t remember. (46)
⭐️: 3/5

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The Third Gilmore Girl | Kelly Bishop
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This was lovely - I‘m a hard core GG fan, and was so interested in learning about Kelly‘s life! I had (incorrectly) assumed that GG was her “big” role, but she has truly done it all! (45)
⭐️: 3.5/5

Charityann This one‘s on my TBR. Glad to hear you enjoyed it!😄 11mo
Addison_Reads I started this audiobook today. I was going to buy a print version, but she narrates the audio, so I couldn't resist. 11mo
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This was great! It‘s a short book and I finished it in a day. Disillusioned teens, shitty parents, climate disaster, rednecks with guns… loved it! (44)
⭐️: 4/5

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The Reformatory | Tananarive Due
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Mehso-so

This was heavy - well written but I found it dragged on way too long. And the haint element was hard to get into, as anything other worldly tends to be for me. (43)
⭐️: 3/5

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Sociopath: A Memoir | Patric Gagne
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I thought this was great! My only dislike was not getting resolutions to the Ginny Krusi storyline, and I wish she had gone more into when her dad asked her to cover for him. I thought I‘d end up not liking the author, but that wasn‘t the case at all! (42)
⭐️: 4/5

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Yikes. This book has WAYYYYYY too many loose ends, the whatever-you-call-it between Mac and Jenny (or Rebecca? Who knows) was laughable, and none of the characters were likable, memorable or interesting! It made me mad because the first 100 pages were so good and then it all went downhill. And the END? Woof. (41)
⭐️: 2.25/5