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This book is what I would put in the category of “gentle reads”. Nothing particularly bad happens here, unless you count the death of Amy, Sara’s penpal. But that death happens off screen and before Sara arrives, so you have no emotional connection to her at the beginning of the story. So what you really have is the story of a small town and its
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Enough time passed between when I placed this on my TBR and read it that I had completely forgotten the “back of the book” text. And often I enjoy going into a book blind, so the first time the main character wakes up in a different body than the one he started the story in, the top of my head blew off and I was
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This Japanese cat-and-mouse mystery starts out with Yasuko, mother to a teenaged daughter who spends most of her days working at the local bento shop. She’s kept her world purposefully small in order to hide from her abusive ex-husband. But when one day he appears at her work and then follows her home, things quickly get out of control and he ends up dead on
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I liked returning to the White House kitchen to visit with Ollie and the other chefs, but I didn’t enjoy this story as much as the first one. I didn’t really care about the part of the mystery around the First Lady, because the stakes weren’t really very compelling. The part of the mystery around the death of the electrician was more interesting, but moved
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