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Limetown
Cote Smith, Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie
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From the creators of the #1 podcast Limetown, an explosive prequel about a teenager who learns of a...
Big Little Lies - Season 2
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It seems all of the ladies of Monterey will have drama to contend with in the new season, as HBO's...
The Home For Unwanted Girls
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Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets,...
Historical Fiction 1950s
Her Druid Desire (The Amber Druid Series #1)
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At the tender age of sixteen, Nadia Morales loses both of her parents in a car accident caused by a...
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Debbiereadsbook (1749 KP) rated The Underhanded (William Dresden #1) in Books
May 3, 2024
William is a professor of history, and he gets dragged into the world of espionage, full of secrets about him and his family, and an attempt to destabilize Europe. Followed by an attempt on his life, and William is running for that life, while trying to get the truth.
For the most part, I enjoyed this book, but a couple things, for me, knocked that 4th star off.
The book is full of long dialogues, explaining things in minute detail. I got bogged down reading those pages, and in some places, I skipped ahead.
And it takes a long LONG time for the plot to come together. I very much wanted to dump it in places, I was so freaking confused. It made for a hard-work read, and I'm not sure this book was for me.
It's well written, though, and I didn't see any editing or spelling errors to spoil my reading. It really was the long winded plotting out loud, and the long plot line.
Some twists, and they were not seen coming, so well played there! And once things start coming together, it moves fast, so you gotta hang on there!
Many bonus points for not, not once, calling William, Bill. Big thumbs up from me for that!
First I've read of this author, and I think I'd like to try a shorter book, if there are any. I just struggled a bit with this one.
3 good stars
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The Virgins of Venice
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In sixteenth-century Venice, one young noblewoman dares to resist the choices made for her Venice...
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ClareR (6197 KP) rated The Safekeep in Books
Jan 26, 2025
Isabel lives a very rigid life. Not religious as such, but close to the Calvinist religion that their mother brought them up in. She’s paranoid about things going missing from inside the house, she constantly counts everything and tries to keep the house as her mother would have done. It becomes clear towards the end why she does this.
Isabel clearly doesn’t want Eva to stay. She wants to be alone in the house. Isabel also doesn’t want the attention of a rather over-enthusiastic male “friend”. She goes on dates with him, barely tolerating his company.
As Isabel and Eva’s relationship develops, we see another side of Isabel, and in the latter half of the book there are diary entries that explain a lot about her (I love a book with diary entries). This is a love story, but also a story about what happened to the property of returning Jews after WW2. It’s a psychological novel with a lot of secrets at its heart. It must have been a tough call for this book NOT to win the Booker in 2024.