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Book 41 of 2023!

When Jess‘s best friend Angie gets a college-age girlfriend, she is plunged into a world of jealousy she didn‘t anticipate. When a party leads to a murder investigation, she finds herself plunged into an entirely different world. Overall, I felt like this book suddenly changed directions from being a story about jealousy, toxic relationships, and identity to being a murder mystery and I didn‘t quite love the change. #LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks

Wow!!!! I am floored by this epic package from @sharread so many amazing books and goodies and that plaque from VE Schwab made me squeal I‘m such a fangirl! That movie looks really good maybe we will watch tomorrow! Thank you so much for this #hhs swap package! @wanderinglynn #hauntedhallowsswap

This was a fine read nothing remarkable , but not terrible either. It felt very forced, the whole artsy, angsty love triangle thing. And it was fairly predictable as well. I will say I did really enjoy the parts about Jess's comic book and thought that was really well done. I love reading about artists and the things they create. I think my main problem with this book is that I thought it was going to be a dark and twisty thriller, but it was not.

While I didn't give up on it & I did finish it I can't say I really cared for this book at all. I didn't enjoy any of the characters and & the story just dragged. There was really nothing about the book I like.

New workout audiobook. Don't know much about it so fingers crossed it'll be a good one.

I think it‘s safe to say that I liked this (total book insomnia last night because of it and overslept for clinic!), but there are a couple of things that have bothered me. Because of the abrupt format change in the middle, I feel like we are missing out on what could very well be some interesting character building opportunities. Also, none of the girls were really all that likable 🤷🏽‍♀️ Still enjoyed the read tho!

Love, jealousy, secrets and lies. The first part of this teen lesbian love triangle is told from Jess Wong‘s POV, an unreliable and intriguing narrator. Then someone is murdered and the pace of the story speeds up, switching to police interview transcripts and 3rd person narration. An unsettling, quick read. #Audiobook narrated by Jennifer Lim. #LGBTQ #OwnVoices #YA

The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark.

I totally picked up this book because of the super creepy cover. The mystery was good but the release of information was slow. I found my mind wandering a few times while I was reading it. I liked the end but it took a long time to get there.

The last read of 2017?

Thank goodness for audiobooks, because the most frustrating thing about migraines is not wanting to use my eyes, and audiobooks make it so I can still read when my brain hates me.

I got to see Malinda Lo and Kate Elliott in convo last week and ended up reading this in a sitting later that night. I want to read it again. It was great reading it after a conversation that touched on "unlikeable female characters" and what girls/women are allowed/expected to exhibit to be considered likeable. That said - I really liked the protagonist - Jess is trying to figure out so many things - and I just couldn't not feel/root for her.

This is my only October weekend with significant time allotted to read. Trying to make the most of it.

TBH, I was expecting this to be better. Very awkward POV switch two thirds of the way through, flat characters, and just a general not great grip on thriller genre conventions. You can't just have a first person narrator omit a crucial scene but share everything else so that the reader doesn't have that information and then say, aha, look at what you didn't know! That's not how you structure a mystery or do an unreliable narrator.

#inMyEars (love that cover)

#RiotGrams Day 4: Current read

I‘m just waiting for the ball to drop...😧

"The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark."
I got the best #BookMail today! An arc of queer YA author Malinda Lo's recent book! #QueerBooks #QueerYA

These goodies showed up today from Penguin Random House Canada! @PenguinRandomCa Thank you!! 😍
#arc #ya

About a month ago Inhad Dark in the #coverlove #yaedition. Now I have my own galley. I won't lie I don't care for the cover as a galley buts it's a slick cover meant to be temporary. I would love to see the hardcover version with different finishes. What's funny, it looks better in this pic than IRL. (Ps we are working on kitchen lights so you get to see something besides the dining room table. #bookmail

Creepy cool? Ink? Representing blood? No idea, but it has me intrigued. #coverlove #YAedition

Madly in love with this cover. 🖤🖤🖤