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The Unlucky Ones

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Edgy and raw, this is Book 4 in the Black Harbor series, and the first this reader has had the pleasure to read. Hazel Rydelle, our first-person POV narrator, is an ex-police-transcriber and and ex-occupant of Black Harbor, Milwaukee, β€” by her accounts a terrible place; black at heart;…

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The god of the woods

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Beautiful and intricate, this is both a character-driven novel and a tantalizing mystery, β€” and one of epic proportions, in every way imaginable. A haunting story that unfolds from multiple perspectives, all centering in and around the inhabitants (local or summertime) of a tiny rural town in a wild…

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The Country That Lives Within Me

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A thoughtful and penetrating look at multicultural identity - the not-so-simple task of blurring and integrating who we feel ourselves to be, as we assume new roles in new countries, and in doing so, both chip away and attempt to fortify elements of our deepest being. When a young…

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The Night in Question

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸβž• Absolute perfection, this is a book that simply could not be better. Best described as the comfortable puzzling of Agatha Christie meets the sweet, gentle protagonists of Alexander McCall Smith - but thicker, more immersive, with characters and imagery so evocative, layered, and expertly drafted you absolutely know these…

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What Strange Paradise

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A read for my library book club, I found myself reading this gorgeous novel pretty much straight through. A story that sharply, without apology or sugar-coating, cuts through it all β€” our global predilection for NIMBY-ism, hate, and hypocrisy, underscored by generations of war and conquest β€” to lay…

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Count My Lies

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A well-written and engrossing read, with just enough twists to make it special. Sloane Caraway is a liar. At thirty-three years old, Sloane is not unattractive, but finds her own life (a nail technician who lives with her ailing mother) boring and not in the least exotic. And so,…

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Zero Stars – Do Not Recommend

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A totally unique Sci-fi/Thriller mashup that will make you laugh, quake, shake your head in wonder, and most of all, keep on reading as the story takes you into places heretofore completely unimaginable. Dan Foster- our third person POV narrator, is a twenty-nine-year-old lovable angst-ridden loser β€” who also…

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Mirror Me

🌟🌟🌟🌟 An ambitious and interesting novel, with a unique premise and a narrative voice totally unlike any other. Eddie Asher, a startlingly handsome bi-racial man and our third-person POV narrator, was adopted as an infant by a white family, granting Eddie loving parents, and an older brother, Robert, that he…

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The Ministry of Time

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 How much of our future is beholden to our pasts? The people we are β€” our perceptions, ideas, beliefs, and thoughts β€” how are they first developed, and then enacted, to create our eventual futures? This mind-numbing book examines all of this, and more, in a crazy, twisty, often…

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City of Secrets

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« Book four in the Margaret Nolan series, my first by this author, (but definitely not my last) β€” this is a complex, well-drafted police procedural packed with likable and interesting recurring characters, all revolving around a multi-layered plot, itself teeming with action, twists, plenty of bad-guys, and of course,…

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