A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3.5 stars
Interesting story. I thought it had a great start and was thought provoking all the way but then the ending left me confused. It felt like it was unfinished somehow….
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3.5 stars I picked this up earlier this year but wasn’t in the mood for it. This week, I kept looking for other books and finally decided to pick this up again. I’m glad I did. It was fun and entertaining.
This book was an experience. The whole book feels tense as Cady starts unraveling with the death of her twin sister. The thing that’s unnerving is that the unraveling is slow and steady and feels almost like it could totally happen to anyone. She starts letting go of all the bits of her life she worked hard to build. Her business, her marriage, and becomes obsessed with this woman who experienced grief on the same day she did. She becomes obsessed. She starts lying, she descends so far in that it becomes impossible to find her way back. And this book is narrated so well that it keeps you wondering where this can possibly go. And then that ending. Oh the ending….you’ll have to listen to it yourself to find out. with gratitude to Macmillan Audio and netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
incredible on audio. truly can’t recommend enough. this is a really hard to read and sad story about a marriage that falls apart after a truly horrible incident. the wife tells the story from the past, the husband tells the story of the present when the criminal is finally caught. It’s a character study. It’s quiet and hard to read. but really really excellent. one of the best I read this year.
also took me a while to get into this one. i don’t know if it’s my attention span or these books are hard to listen to. either way loved the way it came together and kept me on my feet the whole time.
lovely, sweet, moving and just so so glad i read this one.
4 stars for being unlike anything I’ve read before. this one was hard to keep track of and only got crazier from there but also one of a kind.
3.5 stars interesting, funny but also too over the top? trying to hard maybe? I might have come into this one with too much hype making it harder for me to love it.
It took me a while to get into this story and follow all the characters. but once I did, I could not let it go. O’Farrell really is an excellent excellent writer. This book finally helped me make the decision that I have to read all of her stories now. How lucky am i?
For reasons I don’t know, I kept postponing reading this novel. But when i was in a slump this week i finally picked it up and i am so so glad I did. It’s excellent. Grimy like crosby tends to do but also excellent, well-developed characters, fantastic writing and a great story.
What a lovely ode to books, mysteries, and cozy books! This lovely story is about Rainy March who can hop into books and solve mysteries that save them. She follows strict rules and can’t stay in the books. Until the book her mom left her goes missing and so does her grandfather. Now all bets are off and Rainy does whatever she needs to, to find them. This is a super fun, super sweet story. If you love books, romance, mystery, classics, and like curling up with a book, you will absolutely love this one. with gratitude to netgalley and Ballantine for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
Oh my goodness this book. This book. Semple has put in everything into one book and has woven it together so it’s hilarious, tender, sweet and also a whodunnit. I have no idea how she’s managed to do all this in one book but she’s just a star. This book starts with a hilarious aging-single-woman coven story. Which would have been hilarious on its own. But then it covers divorce, marriage, parenthood, sexism, comedy, international mystery, rich people, crazy lives in NYC and so much more. I don’t want to give any of it away because it’s just so much fun to uncover it all yourself. Trust me, this one is awesome. with gratitude to netgalley and G.P. Putnam’s Sons for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review |
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