Smashbomb

"Full disclosure: Lena is one of my best friends, but this was a film that I latched onto and loved long before I even met her. I see it as The Graduate for my generation of girls. The first time I watched it, I felt so dragged and so seen, as though my post-collegiate neuroses were just laid bare and my illogical chaotic feminine misbehavior just strung up for everybody to see. Dead-end jobs, complicated mother-daughter relationships, complicated sister-sister relationships: Dunham explores these things with a mix of levity and fearless vulgarity that makes her work feel so true and so to the gut."

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Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Dorthe Nors

6.3 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's...

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Covered (Gold Hockey Season 2, #7)

Elise Faber

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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She’s his best friend’s sister. He’s going to keep her anyway. Getting caught in bed with...

Contemporary Sports Romance Ice Hockey

Keep Your Family Close

Annette Dashofy

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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When a badly decomposed body is found in the basement of an abandoned warehouse, Erie police...

Amy Christmas (171 KP) rated My Sister, the Serial Killer in Books

Feb 4, 2019

Short and sweet (1 more)

Characters are well built and easy to connect with

The ending (1 more)

Lack of retribution

Infuriatingly good

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I loved this book, in fact I read it in one sitting I just couldn't let the anger it infused in me settle.

Korede is our main character, she's a nurse and her sister is a narcissistic selfish serial killer. The book opens with Korede cleaning up one of her Ayoolas messes.
At first you might be mistaken thinking that Ayoola is just nïave, you'd be wrong. We come to learn that she knows exactly what she's doing and it is killing Korede, the big sister that will forever love her little sister, even if it pains the reader.
Korede is fine with her sisters killing it's seems though the last one unsettled something within her,raising a question that must be answered; should she tell the police?
Most with siblings might say no because they're family, this is at first the stance Korede takes. However when Ayoola, possibly trying to make up for inconveniencing her sister via a dead body visits her at work and settles her eyes on Tade.
I loved Tade to begin with. Slowly you learn he's just as much of an arsehole as the next berating Korede for being mean to her sister, even when Korede warns him she's dangerous.
While all of this is going on Korede confides all her secrets to a coma patient it calms her, but when he wakes up who knows what he's remembered.
In the end the question of whether to turn Ayoola in or not returns, and this is where the story went downhill for me, as Korede herself allows Ayoola to manipulate her, only to bring home a new man the next day.

Will I read it again?
Maybe, who's to know?

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The Other Alcott: A Novel

Elise Hooper

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Elise Hooper's debut novel conjures the fascinating, untold story of May Alcott-Louisa's youngest...

Kelly MacDonald recommended Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life in Books (curated)

"This book is a series of letters that a young Nina wrote to her sister back home after she became the live-in babysitter for an astonishingly interesting London family in the 1980s. She’s hilarious about the goings on. And Alan Bennett was their friend and neighbor. ‘Nuff said."

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