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The True Love Experiment

Christina Lauren

Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hollywood love story and take both of their careers to the next level—but only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole thing off script. Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is lost. Sure, she’s got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she’s asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn’t been practicing what she’s preached. Fizzy hasn’t ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can’t-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she’s spent her career encouraging in readers starts to feel like a lie? Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker and single father, loves his work in large part because it allows him to live near his daughter. But when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, putting his job on the line, Connor is out of his element. Desperate to find his romantic lead, a chance run-in with an exasperated Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution. What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see? Fizzy gives him a hard pass—unless he agrees to her list of demands. When he says yes, and production on The True Love Experiment begins, Connor wonders if that perfect match will ever be in the cue cards for him, too. The True Love Experiment is the book fans have been waiting for ever since Fizzy’s debut in The Soulmate Equation. But when the lights come on and all eyes are on her, it turns out the happily ever after Fizzy had all but given up on might lie just behind the camera.

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Killers of a Certain Age

Deanna Raybourn

Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills. When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize they've been marked for death. Now to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization, relying on experience and each other to get the job done, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival. They're about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman--and a killer--of a certain age.

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What's everyone's current read?

I'd love to know what is everyone reading I am currently reading Vicious by VE Schwab. I've had this on my TBR for so long, but never found the motivation to pick it up until now. I am enjoying the story as well as the main character. I am also reading Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, or more like trying to since it has taken me two years to get to page 90 XD i have soft DNFed it thrice now at this point but because i spent a good amount of money on it, I do want to read it.

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Do you collect special editions?

Lately I've been so obsessed with special edition books, to the point where if I finish a book and I really enjoyed it, I'll immediately be on the lookout for any special editions that are released in the future 😭. I try to only either buy special editions if I can find them really cheap on second hand websites or only buy special editions of books that I reallyyyy liked and find special to me, as much as I'd like to buy special editions of a lot of books, they tend to be quite pricey and I just can't afford it lmao. Do you tend to collect special editions? If so, what's your criteria, like do you buy them cause you found them pretty or you've already read the book and liked it or any other reason?

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The True Love Experiment

Christina Lauren

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They Both Die at the End (Death-Cast, #1)

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Apr 15, 2025

2.5

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 2.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 1.5

ugh. this book was actually looking like it was going to be good for so long, but the ending was just so stupid. some of the twists were really predictable, and then the author just twisted them again in such outlandish ways. the ending just kept getting more and more ridiculous and stupid. i loved the vibes of the book, and there was still a lot i enjoyed. but.......

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I'm so in love with this book. I love Aiden and I love Lucie. I don't know why but it reminds me a lot Emily Henry style, especially Funny People. People 'forced' to be together who instantly become friends and slowly become lovers. I'm so here for it!!!

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I know that there are so many characters I should be more doubtful/suspcious of, but from the limited introductions to the staff, they all seem so lovely!

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The Only One Left

Riley Sager

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother’s happy life It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything. “It wasn’t me,” Lenora said But she’s the only one not dead As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.

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Trouble finishing series

Does anyone else have a problem finishing a series they love? I’m finding I’m just not ready for it to end and my tbr is filling up with series finales!

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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region. Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemí’s dreams with visions of blood and doom. Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness. And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.

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There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love

Kelsey Crowe

The creator of the viral hit "Empathy Cards" teams up with a compassion expert to produce a visually stunning and groundbreaking illustrated guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain.When someone you know is hurting, you want to let her know that you care. But many people don’t know what words to use—or are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. This thoughtful, instructive guide, from empathy expert Dr. Kelsey Crowe and greeting card maverick Emily McDowell, blends well-researched, actionable advice with the no-nonsense humor and the signature illustration style of McDowell's immensely popular Empathy Cards, to help you feel confident in connecting with anyone experiencing grief, loss, illness, or any other difficult situation.Written in a how-to, relatable, we’ve-all-been-that-deer-in-the-headlights kind of way, There Is No Good Card for This isn’t a spiritual treatise on how to make you a better person or a scientific argument about why compassion matters. It is a helpful illustrated guide to effective compassion that takes you, step by step by step, past the paralysis of thinking about someone in a difficult time to actually doing something (or nothing) with good judgment instead of fear.There Is No Good Card for This features workbook exercises, sample dialogs, and real-life examples from Dr. Crowe’s research, including her popular "Empathy Bootcamps" that give people tools for building relationships when it really counts. Whether it’s a coworker whose mother has died, a neighbor whose husband has been in a car accident, or a friend who is seriously ill, There Is No Good Card for This teaches you how to be the best friend you can be to someone in need.

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notsolocaltheatrekid

Apr 07, 2025

2.0

Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 2.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 2.5

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It's very rare that I read a book where all my first thoughts when thinking back to it are negative. This falls into the category for me of books I mostly seem positive or neutral opinions of but I just really don't like. This one more so in dislike than the others for me. I really didn't like the writing style of Rufus' character - I liked that the author wanted a distinct narrative voice, but felt like he was trying way too hard with the language and dialect in it, that there were so many points that just felt superficial or were funny when it really shouldn't have been. I do think for that this would have been better as an audiobook but I would have DNFd it if it was I think. I knew there was a romance aspect, but if I didn't, I would have been VERY confused when it got introduced because the only way I could see the foreshadowing to it was because I knew it was there. Felt really out of nowhere, and their relationship after admiting their feelings was just so weird and made no sense in the rest of the context of the book. It felt just added in there for the sake of it and not as well thought out - I think the book would have been more powerful if they remained just friends, but then, a lot of the ways the deaths worked relied on their relationship. Speaking of, I thought the ending was stupid - I think I would have enjoyed the very very end if I had liked the book more, as it was a clever way to end it, but with how I felt already, I just found it stupid, and the main death was so ridiculous. I really liked the concept of the system, and I do wonder if I would like the prequel more, as that one seems to cover the introduction of the system more, which I like the idea of. I also liked the overlap of narratives and really loved Lidia. It was also very easy to read, and the short chapters were very motivating. But mostly just very disappointed by this one.

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Apr 07, 2025

2.0

Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 2.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 2.5

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Would you want to live in a world where Death Cast exists?

I can absolutely see how people would find something like this beneficial, however I would want no part of it. It feels like this would essentially make the whole point of living to die. Your life would literally revolve around dying. I genuinely think it would shift the world so immensely. Literally who would go to sleep before midnight, not knowing if they will be woken by a call telling them they will be dying today? Genuinely, I think people would become more nocturnal and change life as we know it. That doesn’t even take the mental health aspect into it! I am an incredibly anxious person. If this existed, I would spend everyday thinking that I actually was dying but my call got missed. Or I would push off doing my work each day because “I’m probably dying tomorrow so what’s the point?” Life would literally revolve around death and I don’t think that’s healthy for anyone. Curious to hear others’ thoughts!

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