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The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

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Let me state a couple of my biases upfront because they cut against this book and I think you should know how much salt to take my opinion with. First, I listened to this one as an audiobook. As a relatively new listener to audiobooks, I’m still calibrating the precise impact the format has on my enjoyment of a novel, but in general it seems harder for me to invest in fiction when I listen to it as opposed to reading it. Second, I had […]

Are you trying to scam someone? Am I gonna have to learn a bunch of facts about you so we can pretend we’ve been in love for years?

The Backup by cheeryos

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The Backup by cheeryos “Poor Ronan here might as well be celibate. How long has it been?” She whispers theatrically, “I think he’s saving himself for Vin Diesel.” Ronan shoves her to shut her up. She’s wrong, anyways. He had always wanted to be Vin Diesel growing up. Which, naturally, meant that he’d wanted to fuck Paul Walker. Now that it’s been brought up, he notices that Adam kind of fits into the Paul Walker mold, with his blue eyes and tanned face and wheat-stalk […]

“One’s your fault. The other one, you just happened to be there when it happens. Like, when you kiss him, POW, he gets hit by a bear. Totally not your fault. You shouldn’t feel bad about that. It’s not your bear.”

The Dream Thieves: Book II of The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

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I suppose I’ll get at least the next book in the series; I’m not particularly in love with it, but I don’t hate it (at least at this point) to stop reading. But I’m going to not make any decisions on buying the last book until I’ve read the third. My opinions of the characters have not really changed all that much; Ronan, Noah and Gainsey are my three favorites. Noah is weird bit likable in a harmless kind of way, Ronan is the poster […]

“Wealth is just security. Luxury is living care free.”

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

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4.5 stars CBR17 Bingo: Culture (A lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds, countries and cultures are forced together for a time during World War II) Official plot summary: January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of high society’s troubles. Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. The Gilfoyles, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, have trained her […]

“Wealth is just security. Luxury is living carefree.”

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

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I absolutely love Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle series—I find her writing very beautiful, and it’s one of a few YA series that I fully recommend to adults as well. I’ve been looking forward to reading The Listeners, her debut adult novel, since I’d heard it was going to be released. The story opens in January of 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the US into World War 2. June is the general manager of a luxury hotel catering to […]

The Raven Boys | TRC Book One

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

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Being honest, it took me a very long time to get sucked into The Raven Boys. The Raven Cycle has been on the edge of my periphery for the past seven years – give or take – and it’s always been a series I thought I’d read someday, despite never making any moves to learn what it was about, or find a copy to actually read. After finishing All For The Game, I decided it would be the perfect time to rectify that. Many people […]



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