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midwesternbookrecs

Fantasy, sci-fi, and romance reader wanting to connect with others through books!

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Spring 2026 Readalong
Epic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Series
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One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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Blood Over Bright Haven
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
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Yesteryear
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The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
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    Ok, this is officially the first time I’ve hate read a book. I can’t put it down but I f’n hate this woman, her family and her whole entire community so far. There isn’t a single redeeming character as of yet. But I can’t stop reading!

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  • The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
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    Apr 23, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 2.0Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.5
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    This was very much a Hallmark movie translated into a book. It was predictable after the first 20 pages and not mysterious enough! I also don't love 1st person POV in contemporary settings, so I just found Edith to be a little annoying. For something easy and mindless I would maybe recommend this, but there's probably something else out there.

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    One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they’re unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this big-hearted family saga perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo. Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn’t told Ryan about, and Ryan has an alcohol addiction he hasn’t told Lillian about, so Georgette comes of age watching their marriage rise and fall. When a shocking blow scatters their fragile trio, Georgette tries to distance herself from reminders of her parents. Years later, Lillian’s son comes searching for his birth family, so Georgette must return to her roots, unearth her family’s history, and decide whether she can open up to love for them—or herself—while there’s still time. Told from three intimate points of view, The Bright Years is a tender, true-to-life novel that explores the impact of each generation in a family torn apart by tragedy but, over time, restored by the power of grace and love.

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    For fans of Dolly Alderton and HBO’s Hacks, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about faking it (and “making it”) as a writer in Hollywood. TV writer Caroline Neumann is thirty-four and mired in professional envy and self-hatred. Even Harry, her usually supportive therapist husband, thinks it’s time for her to press pause on her career ambitions and focus on getting pregnant, despite Caroline’s serious ambivalence about having children. When Caroline accidentally stumbles on Harry’s patient session notes and offhandedly mentions what she finds in a meeting with a producer, the momentum of Hollywood takes over. Before she knows it—and unbeknownst to Harry—Caroline finds herself pitching a TV show about the deepest, darkest secrets of her husband’s favorite patient, a woman known to Caroline only as the Teacher. Amid the indignities of the Hollywood development process, Caroline must balance her burning desire for professional validation against her own morality and the health of her marriage. And when Caroline forms a real-life relationship with Teacher herself, the lines between art and life begin to blur further, shaking up Caroline’s understanding of what it means to be the “likeable female protagonist” of her own life.

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