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What Beauty There Is
What Beauty There Is: Winter. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones. | Anderson Cory
10 posts | 7 read | 7 to read
Jack Morton has nothing left. Except his younger brother, Matty, who he'd do anything for. Even die for. Now with their mother gone, and their funds quickly dwindling, Jack needs to make a choice: lose his brother to foster care, or find the drug money that sent his father to prison. He chooses the money.
Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one. Trust no one. Now Victor Bardem is stalking the same money as Jack. When he picks up Jack's trail, Ava must make her own wrenching choice: remain silent or help the brothers survive.
Choices. They come at a price.
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perfectsinner
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Camping, beautiful scenery, a great book
#happyplace #camping #River #books

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perfectsinner
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Can you tell I'm on vacation? 🤓📚
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readingjedi
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Mehso-so

Annoyingly affected and cliche laden writing style. Hated the chapter intros with their semi-spoilers & deliberate vagueness, meant to tease & intrigue but just irritated. Plot was decent but full of gaping holes. Not keen on the tortured romance or the totally unnecessary death of the female MC. All a bit grim. Not the worst thing I've ever read by a long shot but a bit melodramatic for me. 14 year old emo me would've responded more favorably!

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readingjedi
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Starting on this one. Is it the first of a series, does anyone know?

It seems nicely at odds with the gorgeous weather - love it when books juxtapose awkwardly with reality like that!

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Eggs
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Thanks for the tag Lisa 🌻

🖌 yes! ☝️

🖌 it helped but I was pulled in by the summary

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! Happy Tuesday! 2y
Eggs 💗💗 2y
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CareBear
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Pickpick

I ultimately enjoyed this although it was a slow start for me…but can someone smarter please explain the ending?

AmyG Ha! I have read a few books where I just didn‘t get it. I am left thinking…what? 3y
MaGoose Been there, done that with certain endings. The Mage by John Fowler comes to mind, which I read about 35 years ago. The last few lines are in Latin!!! And this was well before Google Translate was a glimmer in anyone's eye. I just about threw the book out the window. 😁🤣 3y
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Books88
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Library book haul 📚📚📚

KristiAhlers I loved the ladies of the secret circus! 4y
Tamra I just finished the Haynes novel. 👍🏾👍🏾 4y
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BookNightOwl
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Pickpick

My heart ache for these boys who's father is in Jail and mother who is addicted to drugs and depressed. All they have is each other and Jack will do anything in his power to make it stay that way. This was definitely a hard read and you need to be in the right mind set to read this book. Trigger warnings are drugs, suicide, death, stalking, mental abuse. I gave this book an A-

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Madeleinexo
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This book rocked my entire world. Upon seeing the cover, it instantly drew me in but the story line hooked me. This story mostly follows Jack, his brother Matty and Ava. We see the struggle of these characters bond to the past, relationships between mothers & fathers, to family.. loyalties and most of all - the struggle of simple survival. It was a definite page turner and I read it in one day!

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NatureGraceReader
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I thought the book had a nice pace. It was fast and a lot of things happen that keeps the book moving forward. I was on the edge of my seat a few times. Jack has to deal with the people who are trying to find the money his father hid also. This of course gets him into a lot of different tense situations. Jack does not know who Ava really is but even with Ava‘s background, she does her best to help Jack and Matty.