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Her whole family was murdered and she’s not OK

Out of the Ashes by Kara Thomas

July 6, 2023 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Samantha Newsom is leaving her shift as a nurse to help assist in the suicide of her terminally ill uncle Gil at the beginning of this story. It’s quite a tone to set immediately. The next morning, Sam gets a call that her uncle has died (duh), but nobody suspects any foul play. Hot take – you should be allowed to decide when you and how you die if you’re terminally ill. But that’s a topic for another time. Sam heads back out to Gil’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: abduction, fire, Kara Thomas, murder

kfishgirl's CBR15 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: abduction, fire, Kara Thomas, murder ·
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Another Girl-Gone-Missing for Aficionados of the Genre, but the Conclusion Just Didn’t Work for Me

Little Monsters by Kara Thomas

September 4, 2021 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

I haven’t been as drawn to the YA genre as of late, but picked up this audiobook on a whim regardless. And as it turns out, it was one of the more compelling listens throughout than a lot of what I’ve been getting into these past few months. That is, until the ending: try as it might to have a big, surprising and meaningful drop, it just didn’t have the impact compared to the rest of the twists, turns, and theorizing within the novel. And […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Kara Thomas, little monsters

Lisa Bee's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Kara Thomas, little monsters ·
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Back to back 2-star YA novels have held my reviews up!

Little Monsters by Kara Thomas

The Forgotten HLittle Monstersours by Katrin Schumann

August 13, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

One of the reasons I let myself get behind in book reviews (which apparently runs in the family) is that some books are so very meh — not terrible but also really not worth talking about — that I avoid reviewing them. And then weeks and months go by, and I have even less to say but now I have tons of good books I wanna talk about (read The Collector series by Dot Hutchison!) so I’m buckling down folks. I read these two books […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: badkittyuno, Kara Thomas, Katrin Schumann

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:97 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: badkittyuno, Kara Thomas, Katrin Schumann ·
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