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A Novel Love Story
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Mister Magic
Kiersten White
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Loved then ending in particular, but felt the middle was a bit long for no good reason - would have preferred this one to be another novella
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This one was so fun! It's well written, and feels like a mixture between an Agatha Christie and the series Columbo, because it starts with the whole murder then we're left to discover how the detective will solve it, and what other mysteries we weren't shown in the first chapter. It left the reader a lot of hints throughout which was great because I love reading those Japanese murder mysteries as buddy reads with my brother and we stop at the same page to recap every now and then and try to guess the solution to the mystery 🤓
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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)
Elle Cosimano
Post from the System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) forum
So I really want to like this one as much as the others, but I do feel like the full-size novels are a bit less good than the novellas so far, and this one is the same. There's a good 50 pages or so of exploring an area where there's a lot of technical terms used, a lot of observation, and not much happens. I feel like it could have been a novella, cut down on those 50 pages, and been a faster read which is partially why the novellas are so good... I also wish there'd be a recap at the start of each book with maybe a glossary of characters/names.
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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Martha Wells
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Murder at Mt. Fuji
Shizuko Natsuki
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Entertaining but not as scary as the first one (Rules for vanishing) and the plot felt a bit more loose
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Mr Impossible (The Carsington Brothers, #2)
Loretta Chase
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Honestly a fun, fast paced ride, will defo pick up the next ones!
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Short and useful - with some good tips here and there, like a much more efficient version of story genius.
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Write Your Novel From the Middle: A New Approach for Plotters, Pantsers and Everyone in Between
James Scott Bell
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Our Last Echoes
Kate Alice Marshall
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Started this buddy read with my mom - the first chapter was NOT for us lol, there's a lot of chaos, basically you're introduced to the main character who is a MESS, can't handle her kids, has a horrible ex-husband and doesn't seem to have a backbone to save her life, so I was very worried starting this book. BUT chapter 2 already more exciting, gets the plot started, and my mom who is halfway through the book confirmed the MC is way better after ch.1 and we don't see her like this again so it was a weird fluke that gets better after!
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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)
Elle Cosimano
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Holy shhhh*t holy sh*t what a RIDE this book was! Some of the best twists I've ready, ever. And so entertaining, from beginning to end - lots of action, without it being at the detriment of well-crafted and interesting characters. Bit gruesome in places, beware if squeamish.
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Empire of Shadows (Raiders of the Arcana, #1)
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