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Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

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emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was a wild ride from start to finish. While the murder plot was thrilling and kept me wondering the entire time, the drama and comedy kept me enthralled. I wasn’t expecting to actually laugh out loud while reading a murder mystery novel. 

On the actual whodunit, I wasn’t expecting it to be who it was, which is mostly a good sign that the story was good. It’s definitely a book I’d recommend. 

What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

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dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

My jaw is permanently glued to the floor. The plot twists at the end were cruel, brilliant and well done. The story reminds me of something Gillian Flynn, my favorite author would write. 
1922 by Stephen King

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

‘1922’ has all of Stephen King’s usual trademarks. It was disturbing, dark, and gritty. It didn’t have any specific triggering or overly horrid scenes like some of his longer books (such as Under The Dome) and that’s not to say that this book doesn’t have dark scenes. I just wasn’t left with a disgusting feeling afterward. 

I will say that this book, despite being 120ish pages, is rather long-winded and slow. The writing is good though and it pulls you into the story. I didn’t put down the book until I finished it. 
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

They’re not going to last more than five years. 

It was a cute little romance and honestly, I have to agree with the title, they deserve each other. Mainly because I don’t think anyone else would put up with them. 

The pranks and sabotage did feel a little one-sided though. Almost the entire novel Nicholas was trying to fix things between them while Naomi spent half of it sabotaging. I don’t usually think this but I do believe that this story would have benefited from duel POVS.
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Annie Bot is like a cousin to The Stepford Wives, which is a book that I love. It was utterly captivating from start to finish. 

I had no idea what this story would really be about because the synopsis is a bit vague but I was pleasantly surprised. It’s a good character study of autonomy, freedom, and emotional abuse in a relationship. It was rather surprising that a book about a robot that’s made for sex and companionship is a good example of what it is to humans. 
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Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Overall I thought ‘Fierce Fairytales’ was good. I enjoyed the usage of the fairytales and folktales that are both well-known and perhaps may be lesser known, to get the author's point across. It created a fantastical bubble with topics that everyday people face. 

However, after a certain point, it felt repetitive, and some of the poems had a clichè way about them or a tackiness that broke the bubble that the overall book built. 
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

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adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Turns out that the true vampires are actually capitalism and the expectations of society and family. 

Vampires of El Norte was just okay. I neither loved it nor hated it but I’ll probably forget about it after a few days. I expected something else and maybe more than four scenes with the actual vampires. 

When it comes to the relationship between Nestor and Nena, I think I would have been more invested in them if we got flashbacks of them together as children but this book is very much tell and not show. 

The ending was also very abrupt. 
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

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emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I’m not quite sure how a book so full of hope has left me feeling so sorrowful but here I am crying. 

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

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adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

At first, this story reminded me of a modernized version of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot books, but boy, was I wrong. As much as you try and try to guess the answer the the original mystery, you’ll never guess it. Not because it’s all that hard but because there are multiple characters with many many secrets. 


I devoured this novel. I enjoy a good mystery novel and a whodunnit at that but between the way it’s written and the complexities of all of the characters, ‘The Paris Apartment’ is hard to put down. Surprisingly, my least favorite character was the main character Jess, but like I said this story is filled to the brim with fleshed-out and interesting characters. 


As for the mystery itself, it just gets bigger and bigger and deeper and deeper. Originally it is a search for a missing brother but it becomes so much more as more secrets are brought into the light. 

Exile by R.A. Salvatore

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adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I merely tolerated the first book with the promise of a friend that this trilogy gets better and luckily, I believed them and continued to read on. 

Exile does away with most of what I found frustrating in the first novel. Drizzt, while he still has morals and a tendency to want to see the best in everyone, isn’t blindly naive anymore. The characters that accompany Drizzt throughout the book don’t just make the story and adventure better but help to round out Drizzt’s character, too. 

Exile was the adventure story that I had hoped ‘Homeland’ would be and that I hope will continue in ‘Sojourn’