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I had a really tough time with the purely evil bad guy who showed no possible redemption or depth of It was difficult to spend so much page time with such a character and in his thoughts.

The story is wonderfully interpersonally complicated. 03 One of Us Is Next by Karen M.

imagine it was difficult to manage how to address this topic without being able to give it the page time

I loved being along for the ride as Harper's story unfolded, and I was all in for the main protagonist

What do I love more than a Tana French book, a retired detective story, or an Irish setting?

I'm intrigued by stories of those who have left faith systems. Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.

wasn't sure Anna would provide parenting advice and hindsight-based tips to Emily at such a fraught time

I loved how much heart was in this story but found myself distracted by my disbelief.

Silver offers a story with a missed-chances premise in which romance, drama, and an unwavering hope in

and weight of various factors on another person and their unique life, but I had somewhat of a hard time

After a terrible storm that took her mother's life, young Fable was abandoned by her father, who's a This is an immersive story, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial India underlying all of It's a wonderful opportunity for a romantic story involving unapologetic body positivity, and I hope

Green tells his funny, poignant, tech-focused story through characters' alternating viewpoints, and it

There's extensive page time spent on ghastly monstrousness. It was really difficult to read a book with so much page time spent on abuse and violence.

Frances spends most of her page time in self-obsessed analysis and introspection or making sweeping,

adult rom-com Dungeons and Drama, about a young woman with Broadway aspirations and the nerdy game store without permission and gets grounded, she suddenly has to spend afternoons working at her father's game store

for writing, but I didn't much care about this potential issue because I loved every bit of Vivian's story

Girl One reminded me at times of Body of Stars, but this book held together more successfully for me,

Bronwyn, Nate, Addy, and Cooper largely feel like stereotypes when the story begins, but as they become

This young adult science fiction story has an irresistible premise: teenaged Romy is the sole survivor

After all, last time around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank

I love an alternate reality story, and I thought this was a smart and lovely one.

I listened to the audiobook of this mystical fairy tale-folk story (and I loved the narrator Kathleen

irresistible Bridie are her striking and unfailingly loyal sidekick Sadie; Ruby, who is both a tender tie Various depraved and frighteningly cruel characters help drive the story of Things in Jars and add to

I just could not get anywhere near invested or interested in this story of years of unhappiness, relentless

The story involved a satisfying set of Reacher-figured-out-a-plan moments, along with somewhat of a commentary

mix of different genres I read concurrently are usually reactive--a result of my library hold list timing Are you a one-book-at-a-time reader, or do you dabble with reading different types of books at once?

This story was so much more than I expected. This story was so much more than I expected, but thankfully Napolitano didn’t rely solely on her book anything critical whatsoever about the protagonist or his plight or about anything to do with this story

The first section of Lockwood's story about an internet darling is absurd, frivolous, vulgar, irritating

But when time goes by and Ada doesn't conceive a child, she is suspected of witchcraft, of causing trouble

downs, her drinking-related missteps, and her failed loves (including, interestingly, a lot more page time

answering a few questions about your tolerance for violence, rough language, and adult content; desired time

legitimately help us understand what motivates people's fanatical behaviors during this ever-restless era--a time

The final book in Maureen Johnson's young adult Truly Devious trilogy wraps up the story nicely, but When a giant storm heads toward the Burlington, Vermont, boarding school do you think Stevie goes along

Many issues have been raised regarding: Cummins's right and ability to tell this story as non-Latinx

“I suppose I could spend time theorizing how it is that people are not bad to each other, but that's

I read Ford's memoir Somebody's Daughter around the same time I read the memoir Crying in H Mart by Michelle

I have a high school senior, so maybe it's time to finally read the stack of college admissions-related

The story builds to show how individuals on opposite sides of the issue and of the wall are at heart The subject matter is weighty and emotional, and McCann manages to make the story both personal and political

Fletcher was tough to read at times because of the frequent reckless, life-and-death, sometimes ill-advised

But spending time working together for once allows Rowan and Neil to see sides of the other person that I hope this weekend holds some cozy reading time with books you love.

Despite the mysterious disappearances of children that are at the heart of the story, this primarily

Being tricked into working as an unpaid, abused slave without freedoms or even time to sleep doesn't

with beautifully imperfect characters bringing it all to life; and a woman-powered historical fiction story

for a weeklong visit of east coast colleges with a touring company, Jessica's hoping for some quality time

mystery, complete with fantastic details of the dress, food, street life, and royal court tensions of the time

And I loved how much book talk (both writing and reading) took place in this story.

experience the intensity of the exciting events because of feeling yanked back and forth in pacing and in time

That said, I have a tough time reading memoirs in which someone is fighting cancer, and I understand

War II in Atlantic City, and its giant hotels, piers, and general hubbub are the backdrop for this story This was a really captivating story that kept me intrigued throughout.

The backtracking to the start of Nadia's involvement in the situation is wonderful; other brief side stories