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How can I find him and save him?

Forever Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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If I were a man in a Taylor Jenkins Reid novel and I realized this, I would RUN, because she is gunning for husbands and would-be husbands. This is my second Reid “widow” novel, and I should have realized going in that’s where we were headed based on the title, but when the husband gets on his bike in the opening scene, I knew he was about to get it. So in the novel, we have a recently married couple and by recently married I also mean they’ve only been together for a few months too. So like I said, […]

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12/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:669 |

4.5 Stars for Audio and 3 Stars for Actual Story

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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So, I have to say that all in all, I really enjoyed “Daisy Jones & The Six.” I am so glad many of my friends suggested I listen to this via an audiobook. I can definitely understand why many readers DNFed this book though. The interview style format would be a much to try to read. Same reason I gave up trying to read “War World Z” that’s another book you have to experience by audio. The voice actors in this one killed it, and honestly that is what makes this book so compelling. Decades later you can hear the […]

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11/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:309 |

CBR Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse, I Love This and Reader’s Choice

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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CBR 11 Bingo- Not My Wheelhouse 99 Percent Mine – Sally Thorne I chose a romance novel, Thorne’s The Hating Game, for last year’s Not My Wheelhouse and while I enjoyed it the romance genre floodgates were not opened for me so I chose another kissing book for the same square this year. Darcy Barrett and her twin brother, Jamie, inherited their grandmother’s tear-down of a cottage which has caused some estrangement between the siblings. Their childhood best friend, Tom, has been hired as the contractor to flip the house before sale as well as something of a go-between for the […]

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10/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:102 |

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Earlier this year, Taylor Jenkins Reid published Daisy Jones and the Six, which has generally been very well received critically and keeps popping up on “Must read” lists. In several review of that book, I saw this, Jenkins Reid’s previous release, from 2017, highly recommended. Several people who were so-so on Daisy Jones and the Six claimed to prefer The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and as movie stars seemed more intriguing to me than rock stars, I decided to give it a try. There are multiple narratives in this book.There’s the framing story of magazine journalist Monique Grant who is pretty much hand […]

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10/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:72 |

A merely OK book made much better by the voice cast

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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From Goodreads: Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do […]

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9/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:68 |

And maybe that’s ok.

Maybe in Another LIfe by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Another Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, and I’ve started seeing some cracks in the formula. One thing that Reid likes in her novels are those irrevocable choices and how they might split narratives based on which path was taken. This book takes that idea and runs with it. Hannah is back in town, recently out of a relationship with a married man, and testing the waters on her second night with her high school boyfriend. The novel splits on two fronts: she goes with him or she doesn’t. When she chooses not to go with him, she gets hit by a […]

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9/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:529 |

But no one else seemed to want to vomit around her.

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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This novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid finds our narrator and protagonist in entirely unique, but oddly familiar situation. As in After I Do, we find our narrator facing down the most important decision of her life. After years and years of love and marriage, she has to decide whether or not the things she once wanted are what she still wants, now asked to decide again, in her her thirties. That’s the familiar part. The unique part is that Emma is engaged to Sam, who she knew as a teenage and who went out of her life for more than […]

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9/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:527 |

I don’t respond.

After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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A very solid and entertaining novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, of Daisy Jones and the Six recent acclaim. This novel is about a married couple, eleven years into their relationship having met in college, and about 5 or 6 years into their marriage, in a rut. The novel begins with a fight or tense dispute in the Dodgers parking lot that leads to eventual breakdown in their communication and their trust for one another. But the novel takes a long detour into the full body of the relationship, beginning with the energetic and enthusiasm courtship, the loving development of their […]

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8/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:493 |


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