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WTAF? So nice to wake up to the news that the US has captured Maduro and his wife and spirited them out of the country. Now what?!?

#Readingbracket2025 #BookBracket2025 @Cseydel
Can't just pick one book! Here are my reviews for these! #January2025
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578206614
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404860879
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578782099
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578201795

The last book I read in the summer and never wrote a review of before now.

Three kids that are each other half siblings and cousins grow up before the war with dead and/ or absent parents. They parent themselves and grow tight bonds. As they reach adulthood, WWII starts and they are ready to fight for their country

So much more than a spy novel, Gabriel‘s Moon is a book about humans being - or not being - who you think they are. Gabriel Pax is a likable enough protagonist, but thematically, espionage is the real character here. We‘re on a need to know basis, and Boyd makes sure the reader discovers things at the same time Pax does. Side note: my lungs and liver hurt just thinking about the excessive nicotine and booze contaminating Pax‘s body.

July was a bit of a low month reading-wise, but I did enjoy the first in Boyd‘s series featuring reluctant spy Gabriel Dax

#12BooksOf2025

Here I come again...like the song, trying to review all the books I read in 2025 task to be completed by tomorrow😱In 2026 reading goals this will be improved. Good news, I didn‘t read much this year😅
May 2025 Book #1 I started the book the previous month but finished it on May. Like this author‘s writing style. Stories are inspired on real facts and it‘s interesting to search for the real facts while reading. I liked the twists and ending. 4⭐️

#November #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks

#ISpy My #October List @TheAromaOfBooks

Next year, all 12 boards all year! (plus the bonus boards). Also --- probably my first BINGO of the year with his one (I did October, November, and December for three months).

This was packed with so much information that at times it felt more like a recitation of names and dates. With all of the smuggling and secret police, it should have been more engaging.

Just finished the second book in the Gabriel Dax series and hoping the author has a third on the way.