I liked Reid’s previous book and was looking forward to reading this despite the mixed reviews. I will say that the first 75% of the book is just character studies. It introduces each character and sort of pulls back to give you a snippet of their life and how they ended up here. It’s interesting but it reads a bit like a character study. Nothing major happens until around the end of the book where things crescendo and there’s some good food for thought. But it requires that you have a lot of patience with this book that I think is too long for that type of buildup.
I still enjoyed my time with it and i like her writing and will definitely read her next book but this wasn’t one of my favorites.
with gratitude to netgalley and PENGUIN GROUP Putnam, G.P. Putnam’s Sons for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
I saw this book everywhere, EVERYWHERE, so i felt like I had to read it. It was sweet and I am glad I read it but it also wasn’t amazing. I am not sure why it’s on every single list.
wow. this book was unlike anything i’ve read. it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time and it was disturbing and frustrating and a really creepy book. I enjoyed it.
What an excellent, excellent storyteller Stacy Willingham is. She can weave these chilling and yet so real characters and situations that truly give you the creeps. I love reading her novels even as they stress me out.
This one was no exception. The female friendship in this book is so raw, so real, and so disturbing all at once. The frats, too. So real and so disturbing.
I didn’t see the twists coming and I just truly got lost in this book. I will think about this book for a long time.
with gratitude to netgalley and St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
I love second chance stories and I love reliving and time travel too so this one was meant for me and it did not disappoint. I woke up this morning and I was at only 2% and read it all the way through before getting out of bed. I loved the characters and I loved the romance.
I loved the women standing up for themselves and each other. I loved the slow-burn romance even as you know it’s coming. Can’t wait to read of Wiesner’s novels.
with gratitude to netgalley and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
Radiant Rebellion is around reclaiming aging. I am not a worrier over aging so I wasn’t sure I should request this book but I have read books by and taken classes from Karen before and I knew there would be wisdom here I’d appreciate. And I was right.
This book is full of stories, wisdom, insight, and practical steps you can take. But what I appreciate the most is how much Karen encourages you to go within and to be intentional with your life. She had great journaling questions to help the reader do her own exploration.
Loved this one.
with gratitude to edelweiss and Broadleaf Books for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
I loved this book. I love Lange’s writing and I love this character-driven story of a family trying to make things work as each of them hides fears and secrets and are battling their own daemons as they look out for each other. Loved it.
Wow what an unusual book this was. I don’t really even know what to say about it without spoiling anything. Let’s just say John meets a woman in a cafe who turns out to be more enigmatic than he originally thought. There’s a retired sumo wrestler and a peculiar dog.
There’s a future where deep fakes are so common that it’s causing regular disruptions in the world economy. There’s quantum coding. There’s so much in this unusual, interesting book that you’ll have to pick it up and check it out yourself.
with gratitude to Orenda Books and edelweiss for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
I seem to have liked this much less than most of the people. I thought it was good, just didn’t think it was great. Also didn’t love the ending. But others loved it more so i am the outlier on this one.
