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Sugaring Off
Sugaring Off | Gillian French
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A dazzling and evocative novel about love and loss—with a dash of thrilling mystery—for fans of Mindy McGinnis and Courtney Summers. Left partially deaf by an early childhood tragedy that ended in her father’s incarceration, seventeen-year-old Owl is now a tracker, an explorer, a wildlife enthusiast, and always her freest self while hiking the steep forested acres surrounding her aunt and uncle’s maple sugar farm, now her home. Owl and her aunt and uncle never speak of the brutal attack that brought her to them. On the day she confronts a stranger trespassing among the maples, Owl’s sheltered existence is blown wide open by Cody—the magnetic, dangerous young man hired to help with the sugaring off. Cody seems to see her, the real her, in a way no one else does. Together, they challenge each other, learn to question their preconceptions, and risk a romance their families are desperate to stop. But when Owl learns that some part of Cody is compelled toward self-destruction, she must make a difficult decision about their relationship at the same time she’s grappling with her father’s recent release from prison. And when a seemingly motiveless local murder draws attention to Cody, Owl realizes that Cody is in far more serious trouble than anyone knows—and it’s followed him to her mountain.
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Kappadeemom
Sugaring Off | Gillian French
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I wish I loved this book because the cover is beautiful. The story is about a partially deaf girl who lives in the wilderness with her aunt and uncle. They make maple syrup and the grandson of a neighbor begins to work at the maple farm. Some very light hanky panky starts happening and then it quickly ends. This book was very slow and I had to make myself finish reading it.

TheLudicReader Too bad. I have enjoyed other books I have read by this author. 14mo
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Kimberlone
Sugaring Off | Gillian French
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I made an Instagram reel featuring all of the Goodreads giveaways I‘ve won that I want to try to read in 2023!

You can view and follow my #bookstagram
@ readerlykimberly

Laughterhp How do you win so many giveaways?!?! 2y
Kimberlone @Laughterhp honestly I just enter a lot! I was surprised once I started trying, it was easier than I thought and I won way more than I expected to! 2y
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Kimberlone
Sugaring Off | Gillian French
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We came back from our vacation to a stack of book packages. I was excited but my fiancé wasn‘t so generous. I tried to defend myself since I didn‘t buy them, but they were all books I won from Goodreads giveaways!

It is true that I have run out of shelf space…

Would anyone recommend one of these books?

LeeRHarry Can‘t recommend any but the tagged book sounds right up my street - gorgeous cover too 😊 2y
TheBookHippie My daughter asked me to preorder Adelaide if that helps 🙃. 2y
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MaggieCarr
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I'm always drawn to books with Deaf and/or hard of hearing characters. Owl's deafness is the result of a violent assault from her father when she was a child. Rescued and adopted by her paternal uncle and Native American aunt she grows up in a small community on a maple sugaring farm. A lot of this story reminds me of Katie McGarry's Only A Breath Apart mixed with Lauren Brooke's Heartland (books/tv show).