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Flamingos of Long Island Run Wild? Hmmm.

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

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Alright, this was some seriously creepy stuff, and I’m always in for a catastrophe that isn’t quite clearly explained.  Like you are only getting bits and pieces and nobody is ever going to actually lay it out for you.  Draw your own conclusions.  But that being said, I did have one caveat regarding it all.  But more about that later. Amanda and Clay, along with their two adolescent children, are renting a vacation home for a few weeks in a thickly wooded area of Long […]

Getaway Short Story Collection

Uncharted Waters by Sally Hepworth

His Happy Place by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Stockholm by Catherine Steadman

Belle Mar by Luanne Rice

Catch Her in a Lie by Jess Lourey

Shell Game by Rumaan Alam

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So I read through all of the “Getaway” collection the other day and thought some stories hit harder than others. Per usual, here’s my rating per story in the collection. “Uncharted Waters” by Sally Hepworth (3 stars)-Yeah this one shocked me too. Probably because I have pretty much loved most of Hepworth’s mystery novels set in Australia. This one is also set in Australia, but follows a married woman named Ella who is going on a cruise without her husband Mac. While on the cruise […]

I’m a sucker for books set here

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That I enjoyed this book is directly related to it being set here in my city. I live in Washington, D.C., and I love every minute of it (go Caps?) and here this book fell in my lap and they talk about Mass Ave and Sidwell and Woodley Park and I almost fell for it. But aside from the location, this was not my kind of book. It was a slow book about people and their slow lives and set anywhere else it would have […]



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