Book Reviews and a Little More…
Blogger note: Book #14 was a reread of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie. Cress is the 3rd book in Meyer’s fun Lunar Chronicles series. The primary character in each book is very loosely based on a fairy tale character. First we had Cinder (Cinderella), then Scarlet (Little Red Riding Hood) and now Cress, who represents Rapunzel. Like Rapunzel, Cress is trapped in
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When the buzz started over this book, I didn’t really think it was for me. But then a few of my friends raved about the audiobook and we decided to make it our audiobook book club pick for April and I dove in. This is a situation where if I had read the book in text form, it would probably be 4-stars, but the audiobook
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It’s been a long time since I read a fantasy novel like this. The Fifth Season is the first of a trilogy, so don’t expect a complete story here. It took me a little while to get into, because there is a lot of world building. The world of this story is not like our own. There is one single continent, full of “comms” that
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This is a slow burn of a story full of complex characters. First is Elena Richardson. Elena is the “perfect” suburban mom of 4, with the successful husband and big house in the suburbs. But Elena struggles with her relationship with her youngest daughter, Izzy, who can’t help but fall short of Elena’s rigid expectations of her. On the other side is Mia Warren, the
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