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What are you currently reading?
I started both of these this morning. Icebreakers should be a quick read and I’m already invested in the FMC (female main character) landing the lutz and I’m only five pages in.
I meet with my book club on Monday and but I only need to have half of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue read. I’m hoping I love this but I’ve been putting it off for so long because I’m just not sure if I will or not.
What have you recently finished?
Based on the hype I thought I would love Tender is the Flesh but I ended up giving it two stars. It was boring and never really gripped me in any way. The concept of this story was great but the execution never reached the potential it could have had. Also, I’m annoyed that I kept reading this book despite not liking it because I saw various reviews that said the last few pages were shocking. And I didn’t find it shocking or great at all so I wish I had just trusted my gut and DNF’d it.
Another book that sounded good but was ultimately so boring that I did DNF was 1222. My all time favorite trope is an isolated closed circle thriller or mystery and that’s exactly what this book is. However, it was so boring and rambled on about nonsense that had nothing to do with the story. It was mostly a book for the author to reveal all their opinions on Norwegian society and politics and those topics were not handled the best. Also, there was barely any care or focus put on the victims or the crimes which makes me question how this is the eighth book in a Nordic crime fiction series.
One book that I did love was The Naturals. I have been wanting to start this series for awhile and I was so happy that I finally did. I gave this four stars because while the premise is already unbelievable I did find the twist at the end to be so unbelievable that it took me out of the story. A group of super smart teens who are naturally gifted at solving crimes and profiling people all living in a house together seemingly no longer receiving an education other than what pertains to their gift and solving cold cases is about as far as I was willing to go to get into the story. But I’m definitely hooked and I was bummed to realize only the first book in the series is on Kindle Unlimited. As soon as I can get my hands on the other books in the series I will be continuing on.
This past weekend was the latest round of The Final Book Support Group and it was pretty much a fail for me. I DNF’d Don’t Open the Door because it was way too repetitive and nothing was happening. Thankfully, it was the second in a duology so that’s a series marked off the list.
I also picked up the final book in The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and while I’m happy that I finally finished the series I can’t say I liked the book too much. It was a very dark and bizarre way to send off the character. I gave it three stars.
What do you think you’ll read next?
I’m not too sure on what my next read will be but based off the strategy that my team has for Escape the Readathon I will be picking this one up relatively soon.
The bestselling international sensation, coming soon to Netflix, now in English for the first time—a dark, sexy, haunting novel of two very damaged teens who are taken in by the same family and forced to reckon with a destructive love that could be the undoing of them both
Growing up in a ghastly orphanage run by an abusive matron, Nica coped in the only way she could—by retreating to her imagination, where she lived out fantastical stories, especially about the Tearsmith, the man who makes tears, a terrifying figure who forges all the fears that dwell in people’s hearts.
When she’s finally taken in by an adoptive family at seventeen, Nica thinks she’s leaving the group home, its torments, and her prison of otherworldly tales behind her. That is, until Rigel—a young man raised from birth in the same dreadful orphanage—joins her new family.
Rigel is as mesmerizingly handsome as he is troubled, and he and Nica have a long history of distrust and hostility. But as they come to live together again under one roof, the deep shared trauma of surviving such vicious circumstances sparks something magical, and Nica begins to fall for Rigel’s forbidden love.
Before any relationship can become reality, though, they’ll have to face the darkness of their past . . . and the dangerous stakes of pursuing a future together.
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