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American Dirt

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸβž• Finally getting to this incredibly well-received book, it’s clear what all the praise was about. This is an incredible read β€” a saga really, about love and loss and what a human can bear. When the absolute worst is your new reality, how does one envision hope, then reach…

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Needle Lake

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The second book I have read from this author, each of which I have loved. β€œNeedle Lake” is surprisingly tender, intensely atmospheric, and utterly compelling β€” with a main protagonist as heart-tuggingly authentic as an imagined character can possibly be. Based in a small town north of Seattle, Washington,…

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A Death on Corfu

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An utterly charming and mostly unexpected treat, best described as the love child of β€˜The Durrells’, β€˜Pride and Prejudice’, and an add-your-own-favorite cozy mystery. Set on the idyllic island of Corfu in the year 1898, the story is told by Minnie Harper, a smart and restrained thirty-three year old…

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A Dark Death

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A lively cozy mystery featuring the colorful cast of characters introduced in the first Meredith Island mystery, β€œSecrets in the Water”, also reviewed by this reader. The series is set amidst a charming Welsh remote island inhabited by a tight knit community, including Kate Galway, a retired teacher and…

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Young Fools

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Filled with passion and angst, this is a book tailor-made for anyone who has ever aspired to write - or rather, to be a β€œwriter” β€” a seemingly innocuous label that, for those in the literary β€œknow”, carries an inordinate amount of weight. A label that can invoke literary…

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Killer on the First Page

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A charming cozy mystery, the third in a series featuring Miranda Abbott, and the first experienced by this reader. Miranda Abbott is a former TV detective, a sort of everyone’s favorite Jessica Fletcher, who traded in her sophisticated acting chops to star in a blissfully cheesy, but highly popular,…

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You Belong Here

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Is there anything more terrifying than a panic-laden run through a dark and desolate woodland, heavy footsteps not far behind? This fast and dread-inducing literary run leads us through two timelines β€” the first encompassing a horrific crime, twenty years ago, irreversibly damaging to the victims, participants, and all…

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How to Lose a Lord in Ten Days

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An absolutely charming regency romp, hilarious in parts and thoughtful in others, that totally captured the heart of this reader. In an early nineteenth-century era when women are chattel (beholden to their male counterparts), when Lydia Hayworth, the low-born daughter of a now-wealthy gentleman, finds herself β€œaccidentally” betrothed to…

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Finding Grace

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A really interesting premise that comes out of nowhere, messes with a readers brain, and leaves one more than a little awed at the creative mind that inspired it. With a writing style that reminds this reader of Joanne Trollope, this story is a blend of family and relationship…

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The Safari

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« An engrossing and immersive trip to an exotic South African safari-compound, β€” Leopard Sands β€” second-home to an uber-wealthy family from Florida, that is teeming with things that creep, stalk, and kill (and I don’t mean the wildlife). Family matriarch Odelia Bach is in her sixties, undoubtedly a narcissist,…

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