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Sarah Betts (103 KP) rated Read on Arrival: A Bookmobile Mystery in Books

Dec 31, 2019

I received a copy of Read on Arrival from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

In the small town of Catalpa Springs, Georgia a vile woman has kept a library book for over 40 years.
She tries to mend her ways but dies.
Enter Cleo Watkins runner of a bookmobile who is basically trying to save her library from being turned into a...I'm not even sure what.
The character interactions are great even though the beginning seems to be people sniping at each other, the book does a lot of showing not telling in regards to character traits.
I really enjoyed this one and actually didn't guess the murderer!

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Sunnysouthpaw (67 KP) rated A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty in Books

Feb 20, 2020

I didn’t finish it (0 more)

How Lisa was treated after her stroke (1 more)

The use of the ‘n’ word

I could not finish this story

I checked it out from the library on a whim.I hated this, I got to the point where I didn’t want to see if the book redeemed itself.
I’m sure other people will like it, I’m just overly sensitive about such things.
There also was a lot of swearing, almost to the point of being off putting, but I am willing to look past that, just not the racism and the way Lisa’s family treated her after her stroke.. if it wasn’t a library book, I would have turned that book into a junk journal.