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“So she’s a mystic autistic?”

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

July 30, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith 5 Comments

That title is the question my fiancee posed to me when I ranted to her about this book. Honestly, I’d say she’s not necessarily wrong. Although Willow is never confirmed to be autistic, probably in large part due to her family situation being so everchanging and her school counselor being an abject failure, she clearly is, and the book seems to just be her, through some voodoo magic, causing drastic shifts in the lives of everybody she comes into contact with. Like she just exists […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: autism, Counting by 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan, House Rules, Jodi Picoult

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: autism, Counting by 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan, House Rules, Jodi Picoult ·
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This is the one I’ve been waiting for

House Rules by Ruby Lang

December 13, 2019 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Ruby Lang is one of the authors I started reading and fell in love with in 2019. I have enjoyed every one of her books, but I think House Rules is my favorite. It is a second chance at love romance between a long divorced middle aged couple who become roommates because real estate costs in New York City are awful. I received an arc from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Many years ago, Lana Kau and Simon Mizrahi were married. They were in the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Contemporary Romance, House Rules, NetGalley, Romance, Ruby Lang, Uptown series

Emmalita's CBR11 Review No:87 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Contemporary Romance, House Rules, NetGalley, Romance, Ruby Lang, Uptown series ·
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