Tag: Review
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The Worst Hard Time
Storyline: 4 Stars Analyzing a story can be somewhat difficult for an informative nonfiction book like this one. However, I think this book was an exceptional piece of nonfiction literature. It was interesting, informative, but it still told a story. So many nonfiction books are boring and get bogged down in the details, but this… Read more
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The River We Remember
Storyline: 4 Stars I was going back and forth between 4 and 5 starts for this one because was really that good! I settled on 4 stars because 5 stars is a high bar, but I think 4.5 stars is the perfect rating for this book. I grew up in Minnesota, so this book was… Read more
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Sunrise on the Reaping
Storyline: 4 Stars Of course I had to read The Hunger Games prequel. I was obsessed with the Hunger Games when I was younger. I read them and watched the movies and was completely obsessed with them. I was not the biggest fan of the last prequel. A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, mostly because… Read more
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The Gilded Wolves
Storyline: 4 Stars I read this book for book club, and to be honest, I was a little disappointed. I thought that the idea and characters were really cool and interesting, but I thought it was a poor execution of the overall idea. There were so many puzzles and moving parts that did not connect… Read more
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An Ember in the Ashes
Storyline: 4 Stars This book had been on my list for years. I remember when the first installment came out and I put it on my list. I have a general rule that I don’t start series unless the whole thing has been written because I have been burned too many times, which is why… Read more
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The Last Murder at the End of the World
Storyline: 4 Stars When I first heard this book was coming out, I was excited. I read another of Turton’s books in 2020 and I loved it! I was excited, and then when I started seeing books reviewed about it, I was less excited. The ratings were fairly low on Goodreads for the book. However,… Read more
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Migrations
Storyline: 4 Stars I read this for my book club, and we had never heard of this book before searching for it on Goodreads. We pretty much went in blind, and I was pleasantly surprised. Sometimes it is good to go off the normal path and not read all the the popular books on social… Read more
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Beneath A Scarlet Sky
Storyline: 4 Stars I read this book after a friend recommended it to me. My favorite part of the book was getting an Italian perspective on World War II. I know that some of the details of the book are fabricated, but it is based on a real person that was interviewed by the author,… Read more
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The Grace Year
Storyline: 4 Stars I read this for my book club, and it was an unexpected good book. I didn’t know much about it beforehand, but one of the book club members suggested that we read it. I think I especially appreciated it because it was a good book that was not overhyped on social media… Read more
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The Cruel Prince
Storyline: 4 Stars This trilogy has been on my radar for several years, and I finally got around to reading it. I remember when the first book came out, and I decided to wait until the whole series was out to read it. I have been burned too many times in the past with good… Read more