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Duck Heist!!!! #CBRBINGO – Bird

Flying Solo by Linda Holmes

November 3, 2022 by narfna 1 Comment

This is a silly, inconsequential—one might almost say *cozy*—book that is largely about the retrieval of a wooden duck, and I liked it very much. I really love Linda Holmes. I’m in for her whole thing, after this book. I was hoping Evvie Drake Starts Over wouldn’t be a fluke, and it wasn’t. While I didn’t like Flying Solo as much as I loved Evvie Drake, this was a really good time. You don’t often get stories from the POV of a woman who isn’t […]

“She looked down at her palms and understood – her being was implied, her potential thoughts and feelings coursing through her body, the names of everything she knew and those she didn’t yet, all in the perpetual existence in her fingertips.”

True Biz by Sara Nović

November 3, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a really interesting read, but the ending left me unsatisfied. This is probably a book that a majority of the US population could stand to read for the topic alone, but for me, the story arc left just a little to be desired. I don’t necessarily need a happy ending, but I do need that feeling of completion you get with a well-told story, and I was missing that here, even if the book leading up to the ending was very well done […]

I wish I would have known Chloe was based on Paris Geller and Kat Stratford before I read this.

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

November 3, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

As nearly always happens with me upon reading a book that generates such strong opinions in both directions, I am puzzled by the negative reactions here. I’ve seen so many people saying they hate Chloe as a main character, and I’m like, why? She’s just a teenaged girl. Granted, one that is inspired by, among others, Paris Geller and Kat Stratford, so she’s a bit more intense and difficult than your average teenager, but she’s still just a kid, and kids make dumb choices. I […]

“None of us are what we were.” #CBRBINGO – Question

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

November 2, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I literally just wrote a review for the book I finished a day before I finished this one where I could barely remember what had happened or how I felt about it, and then comes this book where I feel like I just read it yesterday and it’s vividly imprinted on my brain. And yet I gave them the same rating. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe I’ll bump this one up to 4.5 stars. It really was very well done. Fantastically creepy. I was already scarred for life […]

Food and smooching.

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

November 2, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Oh, dang, this book has fallen out of my brain since July. I remember that I was really charmed by it upon finishing, but it hasn’t really stuck with me. I’m sure if I picked it up again, the reasons why I liked it so much would come back to me, but it does justify for me not giving this five stars on the first go-round, because a five-star read really should be “sticky”. Our two main characters in this here romance are Delia, newly […]

I enjoyed this book so much that I am upset on behalf of the author that it isn’t more widely read. #CBRBINGO – Rec’d

Three Part Harmony (Plot Twist, #2) by Holley Trent

November 2, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

I never go in expecting too much from romances written by new to me authors, because I never know what I’m going to get, but I should have trusted Emmalita’s taste, because this book was really lovely. (Though it does bother me that the dude on the cover does not resemble either male love interest.) Our three characters are: Raleigh, a book publicist with trust issues; Everley, the daughter of Raleigh’s boss, who everyone sees as having it easy just because she’s the boss’s daughter; […]

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Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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