pickAugust 2025 Book #11
Not necessarily my favorite by this author but I still liked it. This author has a magnificent way to write about family dynamics with difficult past, vulnerable environment, risky choices with fatal consequences. At the same time, even in controversial circumstances, you want to understand his characters, like Roman and his terrible choices☹️Do we need just to let people face their mistakes? Even if they are family? ⬇️
so-soAugust 2025 Book #2
I wanted to read this one because of that cover. It was inspired by a true photo taken during the Great Depression. Here the story fictionalize of what happened to that family after photo was published. The reported in the novel altered the information. Then he was assigned to follow up this story and he investigates what really happened to that family after he lied, the truth behind the photo taken. ⬇️
pickJuly 2025 Book #4
I like this author but this was not one of my favorites. The beginning was intriguing with a suspense and the twist was good but the motive to kill someone…I don‘t know. Also a little bit unrealistic of what happens in that island. Too simple explanation of why people disappears…I don‘t know why it reminds me Wonder Woman‘s home, in the island she used to live🤷🏽♀️3⭐️
pickSorry that I am continuing with my late book reviews but this a closure I must do, even if I finish it first week of January 2026. If I want to improve this task next year, I must complete it now, this one. I‘m a finisher in my races…so I will do in this task📚💪
July 2025 Book #1 second book in this first trilogy. Liked it not loved it. New family dynamics , more secrets are revealed and the story in general in so interesting⬇️
pickAnother fun episode (#11) in this series. A patient is murdered in a Dr.s office and then there are plot twists… is it due to negligence? revenge? Can the dr be held accountable for other problematic behavior? I do like this series…
pick#bookerlonglist #11
I found the first half of the book really compelling and intriguing, with the mix of marriage-bureau and saving the snails. (sounds odd but kind-of works!)
I also liked the meta-fiction elements, where the author inserts her own thoughts on the Ukraine war into the storyline.
Later on, it all started to get a bit dis-jointed and I didn‘t think the author quite nailed the ending.
pickBook #11 of 2025: “All My Friends Are Dead” by Avery Monsen and Jory John
Sometimes you have to take a break from packing to read a book.
pickKate Burkholder #11.5, less than 2 hours in length.
Two young boys go missing-one Amish and one English-and Chief Kate Burkholder is racing to find them before the bad weather claims their lives. Nothing added to the series at large in terms of plot, but these shorts are always enjoyable reads or listens while I‘m out running errands.
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