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Quiver

Julia Watts

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Set in rural Tennessee, QUIVER by Julia Watts is a brilliant YA novel that focuses on the unlikely...

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Recursion

Blake Crouch

8.3 (7 Ratings) Rate It

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What if someone could rewrite your entire life? "My son has been erased." Those are the last...

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Deborah Feldman

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Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s...

Kristy H (1252 KP) rated The Push in Books

Nov 11, 2021

The Push

Ashley Audrain | 2021 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Thriller

8.3

(4 Ratings)

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I realized I need a book project to keep me reading the books on my shelves… so I’m turning to the ABCs again. This time, it’s authors. The only rule is the book can start with either the author’s first or last name, and I’m trying to prioritize BOTM books to meet my goal of reading twelve this year. Let’s see how I do!

My first choice was THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain (two As and a BOTM!). This was a mesmerizing psychological thriller about a woman, Blythe, who has always feared motherhood, based on her own childhood. After giving birth to Violet, she becomes convinced there’s something wrong with her. Violet doesn't act like other kids. Her husband Fox says it's all in her head. When their second child, Sam, is born, Blythe has a wonderful connection with him--motherhood is finally everything she's wanted. But then it all changes in a devastating moment, and Blythe must face the awful truth she's been fearing.

THE PUSH offers a very honest and brutal look at motherhood. It definitely kept me flipping the pages! It starts off with a bang, then dragged a bit for me in the middle. It's certainly serious and sad, and, at times, a mystery as well. THE PUSH will keep you thinking long after you've turned that last page. 3.5 stars.

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Sisters of Castle Leod

Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard

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**Finalist in the 2022 American Writing Awards** Millions are fans of Diana Gabaldon’s popular...

Historical Biographical Fiction

Merissa (12854 KP) rated Dominic and the Dolphin (Land and Sea: A Shifter Series, #3) in Books

Oct 3, 2023

DOMINIC AND THE DOLPHIN is the third book in the Land and Sea: A Shifter Series but the first one I have read. In no way did this affect my enjoyment of the story, apart from now wanting to go back and read the first two as well.

I love Shifter books and if they have Mpreg in there, all the better. But what I got with this was unexpected! And I loved that. You see, usually in Shifter books, if there is a fated mate, it's BOOM, all hands on deck. But not with this one. Oh no! Instead, the author had me laughing out loud as these two have no idea they're fated PLUS they enjoy snarking at each other.

Add to that a hint of danger for both of them (in different ways), friends you can count on, new found family, plus the most amazing pregnancy/nesting/birth scenes I have read.

I loved every word of this story and am so glad I took the chance on it, even knowing it was the third in a series. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by me.

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* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book; the comments here are my honest opinion. *

Merissa
Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
Oct 3, 2023