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The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton

March 13, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

This is one I probably should sit on the way I usually do with reviews, as I probably wouldn’t be as rapturous in description if I sat down and examined all the holes in this book (and it has plenty). But man, that ending. Those of you who have read my posts and commented before know my thing with endings: I usually hate them because they’re so predictable and inevitably disappointing. And the ones that shock usually do so gratuitously. I appreciate an ending where […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: LGBTQIA, prep school, Religion, Tara Isabella Burton, The World Cannot Give

Jake's CBR14 Review No:36 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: LGBTQIA, prep school, Religion, Tara Isabella Burton, The World Cannot Give ·
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Prep school drama

Drowning with Others by Linda Keir

December 11, 2019 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I love books like this.  I feel like it’s a common writing style these days, and I like it.  We flip back and forth between the current time when two high school sweethearts are visiting their daughter at boarding school.  There’s a presentation of a new writer in residence who’s teaching a journalism course.  They learn that the teacher plans to have his class investigate the death of a previous writer in residence whose body was newly discovered. Unfortunately the parents (Andi and Ian) knew […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Linda Keir, prep school, teacher love

kfishgirl's CBR11 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Linda Keir, prep school, teacher love ·
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