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Parts of two series

Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren

Dirty Rowdy Thing by Christina Lauren

Dark Wild Nights by Christina Lauren

Skin by Dale Mayer

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  The Wild Seasons series by Christina Lauren is a 4-book series. I’m reviewing the first three, and won’t likely be reading on to the fourth. This in no way means that the first three aren’t great. Sweet Filthy Boy is the first in the series. Three childhood friends have just graduated college and take a weekend in Las Vegas to celebrate. Mia is the main protagonist of this installment. She has a distant relationship with her parents and is dreading moving to Boston in […]

Two Stories, Rethought

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

Thor Vol 1: The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron

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  I’m a big Jane Austen fan and Pride and Prejudice is my favorite of her works. Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld is a modern-day retelling of this classic story that stays pretty faithful to the spirit of the original. Elizabeth Bennet is here re-imagined as a writer for a women’s magazine. She is 38 and living in New York City. She and her elder sister, Jane, unexpectedly return to Cincinnati after their father has a heart attack. They find their family and their childhood home […]

I’m still thinking through this one

When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

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I’ve been piecing my thoughts together on this one for a week now. I’m still not sure I can say anything coherent or incisive. Some good, some bad, some icky and some baffling choices in this book. When We Were Vikings is the story of Zelda, a young adult woman who was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. She lives with her brother, Gert, who has been helping to care for her since the death of their mother. Zelda is high-functioning but has very focused interests. […]

An old favorite

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

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I read all of Agatha Christie’s books in the years of elementary through high school. Hercule Poirot heavily influenced my idea of what a Frenchman should be, and I read all of his lines in my head through the filter of my French teacher in 5th grade (Miss Marple sounds like my grandmother, but stuffier, in my head). I haven’t picked up one of her mysteries for at least twenty years but my daughter has recently started to be interested in mysteries so I was […]

Strange and stranger

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

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  I received Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor through the CBR Book Exchange (thanks again!). I absolutely loved this book. It is fanciful and beautifully written. Lazlo Strange is an orphan with dreams of a bigger life than he has. He escapes the drudgery of his early years by pretending to be a mythical warrior from a magical land. One day, the name of this land is lost, and Lazlo knows that there must be magic involved. He eventually finds his way to the […]



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