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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Booklikes, Goodreads, and NetGalley.

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Book Felt Up and Down While Reading

What I Remember Most by Cathy Lamb

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Trigger warning: Depicts incidents of physical abuse of a child So this one was my least favorite out of my Cathy Lamb reading spree. I think the problem is that the main character (Grenadine) doesn’t even sound similar to the headstrong girl and then young adult we hear about via CPS reports and then court proceedings. I think that Lamb didn’t think that through enough when she set this up. She wanted I think to have a book about a wife in hiding from her soon to be ex and had a whole story about her past. It didn’t help […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:263 |

Dragged Too Much

The Language of Sisters by Cathy Lamb

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Trigger warning: References to rape So this was just okay to me. I think the biggest reason why I couldn’t give it more than 3 stars was that the whole big just got so bogged down in the Russia plot, the sister dealing with a serial killer case (yep) and then the heroine’s constant repetitions to herself to keep a secret that I just didn’t care in the end about any of the characters after a while. There were some bright spots, but a couple of things that happened stuck in my craw (the outing of two men via video […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:262 |

Went on Cathy Lamb Reading Spree

My Very Best Friend by Cathy Lamb

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Trigger warning: Rape Dealing with some repairs at my home since Monday so since Sunday evening I have gone on a Cathy Lamb reading binge. I am also almost done with the two Clare Mackintosh books I have right now as well. I should have just kept up to date with reviews, but honestly hit a wall of not wanting to post any of my reviews. So today I am sucking it up and getting caught up. First up, “My Very Best Friend.” So I read Cathy Lamb years ago. I got annoyed by one of her books so badly […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:261 |

Sweeping Story of the Brodrick Family

Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier

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So this to me is not a typical Daphne du Maurier novel. There are hints of some Gothic elements here and there with a curse being flung about. But other than that, du Maurier just follows along following five generations of the Brodrick family from 1820 to 1920 following five of the male characters from the Brodrick family. I have to say that from beginning to end the tale of “Hungry Hill” is going to grab you. And you start to wonder if a curse is really what is affecting certain members of the family or is it simply fate? I […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:260 |

Almost Perfect Collection of Short Stories

Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman

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The only reason why I didn’t give this collection 5 stars is that not all of the stories grabbed me the same way as “The Red Garden.” Also though there is the linkage of the Blackbird House, we have so many loose endings with the people who come and live in that house. I loved “The Red Garden” because many of the people in those stories popped up as young children and then as adults or were referred to in some way so you know what happened to them. That said, I thought the magical realism of the blackbird that […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:259 |

Welcome to Blackwell, Massachusetts

The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman

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So this was a really great book to choose for the Sleepy Hollow square. Taking place in a small town in Massachusetts, Alice Hoffman follows the town founders and descendants of Blackwell, Massachusetts. Mixing in historical incidents as well as some magical realism, the town and the residents feel like a very real place after a few chapters. The flow between chapters is great and sometimes a person you read about as a child appears in a short story later. I do wish that a family tree had been included so you could follow those you read in the stories […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:258 |

A Kinsey Installment Looking at Family

M is for Malice by Sue Grafton

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I ended up finishing this book last night and found the overall story to work quite well, while also providing us more details into Kinsey’s maternal family as well as her relationship with Dietz. I was surprised by the ending though since I honestly couldn’t figure out who the murderer was, and when we understand what happened and why I felt pity for the character of Guy Malek. Grafton is often able to write a victim of a murder in such a way that you get a pretty sense of them. She does the same thing here for Guy Malek. […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:257 |

This Book Was Too All Over the Place

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

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I DNFed this book at page 103 last night. Life is too short for a book that is making your brain seep from your ears. There was too much being thrown at me and none of it made sense. McGuire writes this book with no world building so you are just thrown into a book where alchemy is a thing and so is putting body parts together to make a person. I can’t even get into this split soul thing and what that means and the “Impossible City.” They are now words that I just don’t want to read anymore. […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:256 |


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