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Cori June (3033 KP) rated Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper #2) in Books

Oct 4, 2021  
Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper #2)
Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper #2)
Christopher Moore | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+, Paranormal, Science Fiction/Fantasy
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
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This book picks up a year after the last book ends. If you haven't read the first book it would help but you don't have too, although you might be a little confused about the Squirrel People. (If you choose to read "A Dirty Job", go ahead and read "Coyote Blue" too)
I dislike the main character, Charlie, a bit in this, he's a bit of a prick in this book even if it is slightly understandable it is annoying.
I admit I came quite close to throwing the book across the room and if I said why I'd have to hit the spoiler button.
A good read that has some witty moments but is a little more meandering than his other books. I read it on vacation so I was able to easily pick it up and put it down without getting confused or losing my spot.
All in all a good book but not his best.
  
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ClareR (6157 KP) rated Wreck in Books

Feb 18, 2026  
Wreck
Wreck
Catherine Newman | 2026 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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We’re back with Rocky and her family - this time at home. It’s two years after their Cape Cod holiday, and things have changed. Rocky and Nick’s son, Jamie now lives in New York; Rocky’s widowed father has moved in; Willa, their daughter, has moved back home after finishing college.

Rocky has become obsessed with the death of a young man from Jamie’s school year - as if she hasn’t enough to deal with, with her own increasingly perplexing medical issues (and I thank the NHS that our system is nothing like Rocky’s experiences!).

I love Catherine Newmans’s witty, clever, heartfelt writing. One minute I’m laughing along, the next moment I’m empathising with her and reminiscing about her (my) children when they were small - and feeling as emotional as she does! Ahh, menopausal motherhood!

This book just seemed to finish far too quickly for me - I enjoyed everything about it.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for my copy. All opinions are my own!
  
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ClareR (6157 KP) rated Cursed Daughters in Books

May 13, 2026  
Cursed Daughters
Cursed Daughters
Oyinkan Braithwaite | 2025 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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What must it be like to grow up with your family believing that you’re the reincarnation of the aunt that died on the day you were born - and you’re the spitting image of her? What makes it even worse is that everyone believes that your life will follow the same trajectory - even down to the way you will die.

Not an easy legacy to live with, made worse by the fact that Eniiyi buys in to the family curse, despite the fact that in every other way she’s a modern woman.

This all sounds very serious with curses and deaths, but it’s actually witty and looks at the line between family expectations and free will. I did wonder if these women were trapped by their own superstitions, turning the “curse” into a self-fulfilling prophecy. They believed it would happen, and so it did.

And that 30 year old dog - I’d love to know THAT secret!