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06/04/2023

A story about deceit, twisted love and lies. Entertaining at times and repetitive at others. When Cassie, a freelance writer and crime blogger comes across Lourdes' love triangle and murder story, she gets fascinated by the outcome and the loops in the story. But Cassie herself is also a recluse and victim of her own lies and flaws. Can she write Lourdes' story without biases? Or does she trust the wrong woman to save herself? Read it to find out! 📕😊

30/03/2023

Could you forgive her? A tale of demise, hopelessness, hardship, and ignorance. Can the lies of a mother be taken as protective or disturbingly maniacal and unreasonable? This novel makes you think about life, pretension, loneliness, and destitution.

29/03/2023

Have you tried Sarah Penner's books? Her latest release, "The London Seance Society" has a better title than intrigue. Lacking charm and knowledge of the paranormal, everything gets tangled with fraudulent schemes and toxic masculinity. This is not a historical fiction you will be missing much out of.....

28/03/2023

Have you picked this new release? The book is well written but its diluted character development brings the plot down.

28/03/2023

08/02/2023

This Juvenile Fiction Story is highly engaging, concise and heart wrenching. Clare is a 17 yrs old who navigates through a dysfunctional family in hopes of finding her own freedom. But the "Skeleton" in her family's closet keep coming up to remind her it will never go way and her family has no intention to change. Addiction, brute force, abuse, manipulation as well as broken family bonds are some of the things you will find here. A very good read with an open ending. Pick it up and find out what your own skeletons' are!

07/02/2023

Ready for a short and disturbing dystopia? No one can write more thoughtfully than Ursula Le Guin! The Lathe of Heaven brings topics of greed, medical ethics, and mental manipulation to another level. Our protagonist lives in a society where everything is controlled, overcrowded and rationed. When he finds himself in trouble with the law for over using his normal ration of sleeping pills, he agrees to go to therapy to avoid jail time. The problem is, his assigned doctor uncovers he possess an ability more tainting that anything he has seen before, so he devices a plan to build a machine to duplicate his brain waves and steal this ability for the "greater good". To his surprise, his appalling sense of "for the greater good" only brings everyone to the brink world chaos and destruction. A total must read!

06/02/2023

How would you label this book? Reading this from my TBR and I have mixed feelings. How to Sell a Hunted House feels like family drama with two grown up adults acting like high schoolers. Where did the grief, shock, sadness and longing went? I have no idea. One thing is for sure, people here are hungry for money and is not funny...

05/02/2023

This is a very well written Sci Fi Book for Middle Grade young readers. This story brings us closer to a 12 year old who after being launched into space to reach a new planet in hopes of establishing a new colony, finds herself alone and wondering where her family has gone to. Unfortunately, in order to survive and maneuver the new truths before her, her only weapon not to forget who she is, is the stories passed on to her by her beloved grandmother, who is now long gone along with earth.