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A Spell for Saints and Sinners by Emily Carpenter

A Spell for Saints and Sinners by Emily Carpenter

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  If you are going to promise me a gender-flipped version of You with Gothic elements you have to bring it. I don’t know what this was, but it was not that and I got to 49 percent before I DNFed this book. I just could not and would not go on. I got to chapter 32 and said that’s it. I don’t care enough about any of these one […]

An Entertaining But Forgettable Mystery

The Weight of Lies by Emily Carpenter

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Meg Ashley is the daughter of famous novelist Frances Ashley.  The anniversary of the horror novel that made her name is coming up and someone makes Meg an offer to write a book of her own – a tell all memoir about growing up with her famous yet distant mother.  As part of it, the publisher would want her to go to the island that started it all – the resort where Frances Ashley worked for the summer, and then based her first novel on […]

Semi-good audio books elevated by an excellent narrator

Until the Day I Die by Emily Carpenter

Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter

The Weight of Lies by Emily Carpenter

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These three Emily Carpenter are pretty good for what they are: thrillers, set in the South (Alabama and Georgia mostly), starring women with names like Althea and Shorie who end up in peril due (largely) to family secrets. Like Southern Gothic-light. What elevated these three for me (or at least Burying the Honeysuckle Girls and The Weight of Lies — Until the Day I Die is really pretty ridiculous) was the narrator. I listened to all three on Audible, and Kate Orsini imbues each novel […]



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