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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley.

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Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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This one I stopped and started a few times. I just could not get into it. This is the second Brodesser-Akner book I have read and at this point I just need to hard pass. I think this could have worked if I cared about any of the characters. But I ended up despising Ruth and Beemer. And I found Nathan and Jenny exhausting. The book just felt so long and I got tired of reading about the Fletchers. I know that Brodesser-Akner was going […]

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

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How I have missed you, let me count the ways…. Seriously though, I got told to read “Fugitive Telemetry” first and then circle back to The Murderbot Diaries, #5 and then #7. FYI, Wells has a new book or a novella coming out in 2026 called “Platform Decay.” We have Murderbot still protecting humans. This is set before “Network Effect”. Murderbot is stationed at Preservation Station and then discovers a dead body. Murderbot knows what to do in this situation, but also they know that […]

Another Man’s Poison (George & Molly Palmer-Jones #5) by Ann Cleeves

Another Man's Poison by Ann Cleeves

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I think every book I read this weekend was a three star read. Nothing Earth shaking at all. I think I am disappointed with this one because the prior George & Molly Palmer-Jones books were really good. This book’s reasoning behind the murder just didn’t make sense because Cleeves in my opinion did something I don’t like with mystery writers, just tossed out information on something you would not get to until they tell you. It just came out of nowhere for me. Also, for […]

The Children of Eve by John Connolly

The Children of Eve by John Connolly

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I don’t know guys. I love Charlie Parker but this was just not that great. It’s definitely not in my top five of this series. This is even more filler (why is Parker so important—the world will never know) and the main plot is just very unsatisfying. I just felt like there were too many holes and not enough people for me care about outside of Charlie, Louis, and Angel. We do get more of Charlie and his daughter Sam which I appreciated. I wonder […]

An Irish Summer by Alexandra Paige

An Irish Summer by Alexandra Paige

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This was just boring. I wanted there to be something interesting about this one, but there just wasn’t. You cannot have the heroine or hero be straight up insufferable in a romance book unless you are doing enemies to lovers IMHO. Unfortunately, the heroine in this one, Chelsea was insufferable. I really needed to know what everyone else saw in her, because she complained throughout this book, acted […]

This Is Where We Die by Cindy R.X. He

This Is Where We Die by Cindy R.X. He

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  Hey, I am always going to be down for a homage to “And Then There Were None.” The author, Cindy R.X. He I think does a great job of turning this into a young adult version but with a contemporary spin that really does work. The only reason that it didn’t get 5 stars for me and received just 4 is that I think the jumping back and […]



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