It was ok!

I love a young narrator on audio. Sounds so much better than the voices I come up with in my head. This narrator did a great job I enjoyed the book, but I'll be honest that I didn't relate particularly well with the main character. I'm not sure who would and maybe that is the point - to hear her story for a bit. Pretty quirky idea for a novel and it was fun overall. And very short.

While not nearly as good as fire keepers daughter, I'm still happy to be in this world. The characters are excellent and super specific to their time and place. The pacing was very museum-heavy until the very last bit where the suspense felt a little crammed in.

This was pretty fun. I enjoyed all of the chargers and thought they had a lot of heart! I also lived all the KC details 🌻

I really love Isabel Allende, but this one is a bit of a dog. Woof. It feels unpolished or rushed - more like a handful of character sketches?

Really good story, a bit didactic and there were several sections designed to inform the reader, but good overall.

Loved this. Such a heartfelt and personal depiction of what it's like to be new, different, displaced. It felt real, though I don't know that works. It was humanizing and unconventional

This has such a great set up, but it just ended up a bit boring for me. I needed more ghosts, more gothic, maybe? I still enjoyed it, but there were times it was hard to get excited about

I enjoyed this though it has more potential than follow-through! I liked the setting and all the characters, but it just didn't come together in a way that was satisfying for me. I enjoyed being in the world though!

Pretty entertaining! The suspension of disbelief took me out of it fairly often. The characters were not believable, but it still hit a few good beats and I hung in there.

It is pretty middling. They can't all be winners. Too many characters/plotlines so it was hard to feel close to any one character

I loved this so so much. I was skeptical that a book about grief could be so entertaining and heartening. I had a lot of fear that it would be too sad to bear, but I loved it

Maybe it's just not my genre... Not even Mallorca could make this interesting for me. I really liked This time Tomorrow and thought it would be similar

I'm really glad that I finally picked this up. I'd let my hold lapse again and again. Finally got it and read it as a print copy. It's really unique and I love the different voices that all have their individual character. It's confusing and figurative at times and fantastical and imaginative at others. I enjoyed it!

This was fun, but not my favorite. The main character was competent, but naive. It wasnt hard to root for her, but there were lots of times when it was hard to understand why she would be chosen for a mission so important. It was ok. I probably won't think very long or hard about it!

Fun and unexpected all the way through! I guessed the ending but it was a great one of those where explaining everything that was happening just makes it better

Good! Really interesting premise and super fun to be in Ghana in the 60s and to have this magical realism as a theme. I could have done with a lot more detail. It was pretty short - only 6 hrs

Good! A bit long. Wild details that were maybe a bit silly, but I bought them at the time because it was fun to do. 😋

I loved loved loved this. So clever and so twisty. I thought the main character was really well done though she was a flawed and maybe self-centered person. I especially liked the ending!

Got a long ways on the first day

This was a lot of fun. Anyone else read their books at 1.55 speed? I got used to it really fast. But it was a bit odd for this one with so many emails and texts. Lots of fun though!

This was super interesting and the format really worked to propel the story, which I wasnt expecting. I kept wanting to read one more message and figure out one more bit of the story

Really very charming! Gentle on the reader for some of the right parts. Id love to read this author again. The history and ghostly angle was great, too. They provided some levity and a funny Greek chorus

Second read for book club and to read while the new tv series is on! A classic, for sure, and so confounding to this day. I like that the series has moved the modern timeline into the near-present. It's so hard to get into the racial mindset of the 1970s and know enough to figure out the dynamics. Confounding!

Starting a new and quirky one suggested as a best of 2022 and I hadn't heard of it and only one format is available in the library

Kinda slow to start, but really fun and interesting. Super heartfelt and sweet in so many ways without being saccharine or silly.

Really great! Propulsive and sometimes scary. A great thriller! I didn't love the ending, but some people will. Super twisty

Great list to come back to. Suggestions invited!

This was really good!! Kept me guessing and I was really interested in each of the characters! Got me out of a rut. This book sat in my TBR since it was new!!

This was good!! I really enjoyed big parts of it while some things were a bit slow or repetitive. It maybe didn't need to be so long, but I really enjoyed the art heist aspect as well as the historical references. Very cool!

Second half got moving, but it was a bit slow at first. I knew how it was going to end, but I didn't nail every detail. Still some twists and turns. It was fun overall!

A bit of horror for fall, I guess!

It was ok. Really good and definitely one of the streak of better novels in the series. It's just tough to do pandemic stuff right now and I didn't think the hero of the Sudan scenes ever landed.

Gorgeous cover! And it's the last one that's currently out! I'll be waiting for the next installment... Soon!!

Here we go with a new print book sure to be called back to the library ASAP!

Pretty good. A bit slow, but I love a multigenerational story! This is my first of this author. Is there a different one I should read? I'd like to spend more time in Italy!!

On to a new ebook. Just a couple days of vacation left

Loved it! So good! Way better than Glass House, though I enjoyed seeing a few of the characters return. Great book and very very cool

Fun and quick. It was engaging and disturbing throughout, though I couldn't really take it seriously. A fun read, though!

On BO's booklist, so i'm excited to try it. Its interesting so far! Short and compelling;

Loved this one! There was a lull for me in the middle of the series and this one and the previous ones were so so good. Can't wait for the next one!!

I enjoyed this and I especially liked having a neurodivergent main character that have insight into her thinning process. It was a bit predictable, but sweet, nonetheless.

This was hard to read. So much trauma in academia. Really insightful and informative. It was even funny. I just feel like it's too real!

Another Louise penny. I'm starting to run out! But they seem to be getting longer. 14 hours!

Finally got a good start on my print book

And a new audiobook for something fresh ..

Best to get right back at it after finishing one great book - on to the next! Here we go!

This was really good! I enjoyed the second half a lot more than the first, but a fun take on semi-horror similar to Get Out. There are so many layers to Devon and Chiamaka. They come from such different places and yet the system lumps them together and the endpoint is the same. Chilling.

Read it in one day! Great little Coming of Age novel set during the second half of 1989 in Romania. Super interesting story and I loved hearing the story of this one dreamy teenager caught up in history.

Pretty solid Coming of Age novel where the setting is the second half of 1989 in Bucharest. Super interesting to read about a dreamy boy caught up in history. Read it in one day!