Welcome to Litsy!

A blend of the Time Traveler‘s Wife by Niffenegger, the Terminator movie (solely on the element of the timeline overlapping), and the Rose Garden by Kearsley. A story with rich depth, ambiguity, and masterfully tapestry of genres/subgenres including historical fiction, science fiction, time travel, mystery, magical realism, murder, and romance. I am flabbergasted by how the author weaved a complex web of themes and genres into one beautiful story.

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I did not expect to love this book as much as I did. It reminded me a little bit of The Time Traveller‘s Wife which I also loved. It had a lot of the same elements in it, but less timelines. I loved the mystery aspect of this book. There were a lot of pieces to put together which made this book really hard to put down. The writing was beautiful and the author really capture the setting perfectly. Definitely a must read.

This was so so good! #hauntedshelf #flerken #scavengerhunt #magicalsparks #gottacatchemall #forest

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I think I‘m on a short, strange novel kick for autumn. This one is twisty, timey-whimy with a splash of romance and magic.

The heroine is brave, young, and ready to break her family‘s curse. Are all the Farrow women destined to go mad or is something else at play?

4.25⭐
-magical realism
-a family curse, time travel, & self-discovery
-murder mystery
-I was initially uncertain if this book would work for me. But once she unveiled the “door,“ I was captivated.
-a complex, emotional journey of the heart
-heat: mild
-Brittany Pressley‘s narration never disappoints

Definitely the best of August! I miss these characters ⭐️💛💫

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Gahhh this was so good!!! I sailed through it. Misty, I understand how the time travel stuff was confusing, I felt the same sometimes! But wow, what a book ♥️♥️♥️ @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks #readyourkindle

Ohhhh I have such a book hangover! This book is so beautifully written! I can visualize everything! I‘m going to miss June, Eamon, Annie, Gran, and Birdie! The time travel was a little confusing at times, but I didn‘t overthink it and just went with it! Highly recommend this one 💛✨💫

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I‘m almost done with this one! It is so good! Am I a little confused by the time travel? Yes! I‘ve never been a fan of time travel, but this one is going to be a favorite 💛💫

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Happy Caturday everyone!! What are you reading today?! 🖤🤍

I‘m reading the tagged and I love it! 💫💛

I‘ll randomly choose a name from those of you who comment on this post or our facebook post for a copy of Honey 🍯 by Isabel Banta!

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Thinking of starting this one tonight! 💛 🌟

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This audio was amazing! I loved her vulnerable voice and just how unreliable a character June is. This was just a magical story.

This one was right up my wheelhouse with a mix of mystery, family secrets, & time travel, and it did not disappoint. LOVED it! My brain struggled with some of the time travel aspects (as is always the case for me), but I mostly just went with it & enjoyed the ride. Probably my favorite read of the year thus far.

This book had way too many twists and turns for me to be able to fully follow the story. Because of that, I feel “so-so”. I do like the idea behind the story, and I‘ve always liked books involving time travel. I‘m wondering if I‘m alone when I say I got a bit lost in this one.

Started this in print, but couldn't stay focused enough to come back to it. Decided to try picking it back up in #audiobook format since I had just finished what I was listening to. Yay for smart decisions because The Unmaking of June Farrow was an excellent story. Interesting characters with a sweet dynamic.

Originally when I picked this up at the library the cover and blurb gave me Addie Larue vibes, but they are very different stories.

4.5 ⭐

I was reading another book but this one kept interrupting. I had ignored this book b/c I didn‘t like The Girl the Sea Gave Back. But the red door kept calling. (Don‘t you hate it when books get fussy & demanding that you read them?) I finally put down the other book & picked this one up to shush it. I thought I‘d read a chapter then go back to my other book. That was a few hours ago. Now I‘ve finished & I‘m wondering what the heck happened. 👇🏻

Up next: our April book club pick!

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This book started out slow and the logical part of my brain found it confusing at times, but I ended up enjoying the story. It reminded me a little of “The Invisible Life of Addie Larue“, although I liked that one much better. This one had time travel, a bit of a murder mystery, romance and strong female characters. In addition the rural North Carolina setting was beautifully captured in two different timelines. 3.75/5 stars!

I had no idea what the premise of this book was going to be before I read it and it really worked for me. It‘s magical realism and I love the way the story unfolded.

I‘m glad I picked it up because I do enjoy this author.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A fully immersive and emotional time travel story about love and family with a hint of murder mystery.

However the timelines felt a bit wonky and over my head at times lol.

Bk17 of my unending 2024 #BookMail is this small town magical romance. Jasper North Carolina, June Farrow is working in the family‘s flower farm & waiting for the curse to find her. The whole town knows of the madness that led to Susanna Farrows disappearance leading June to be raised by her grandmother. Determined to be the last of her name & never fall in love, fate has other ideas.After her grans death, a door may lead to the answers she needs.

I loved this book so much more than I thought I would. I hadn‘t read an Adrienne Young book before this one but I am going to read them asap. Going into this book I wasn‘t sure what to expect because I had seen where it was labeled as fantasy and I‘m fairly new to the genre. This book just had a way of sucking me in and not letting go. This is definitely one of my favorite books I‘ve read this year.

I‘m better get reading if I‘m ever going to get to this before it‘s due back!#TheUnmakingOfJuneFarrow#AdrienneYoung#SpellsForForgetting

This book is absolutely amazing Adrienne Young has done it again

Beautifully written and unputdownable.

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Family drama + time slip, wrapped around a past murder mystery.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4.5/5)

I‘ve always been a fan of Adrienne Young‘s writing, and this novel doesn‘t disappoint. “The Unmaking of June Farrow” is one that definitely tugs on your heartstrings as it explores themes of family and love while an unsolved murder threatens to disrupt everything. The plot was clever, and the characters with their related arcs were well written.

This book started off slow, but it really picks up a quarter of the way through.
The way the time period jumps were written is very unique and well-done!
The mystery behind June's life makes this book hard to put down. I loved all the characters in this story. It wraps up perfectly!

Here we go!

I had two 5⭐️ books for September, but this was my first place. BTW, runner up was from the Lane Winslow series (A Deceptive Devotion).

I love Young‘s books for their magical atmospheres, their unique beauty in writing and the empathy I feel for the characters. She‘s an automatic buy for me.

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My last book of 2023 was called The Last 😆. Starting June Farrow this morning. Happy New year all! Here‘s to a great reading year!🥳🎉 #lastfirst

I never posted November's adult Owlcrate. I like this edition the more I look at it. The red is very pretty. It was also one of my favorite books I read this year, though I read an ARC.

I found this a little slow to begin with. I liked the characters, though, and I thought the time travel segments were portrayed in an interesting way. I became more immersed in the story as I progressed through the book and ended up enjoying it. A good 3.5⭐️

Day 1 of my book advent!

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Another library book to read.

Not a fan of this one. I found it slow aside from ~50 promisingly exciting pages in the first half, after which things went back to a snail‘s pace. The “reveals” were entirely predictable and the fantastical elements were flimsy. The relationships weren‘t well drawn and the southern country theme was grating. Just not my cup of tea. #botm

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An atmospheric read for fall, I enjoyed this mind-bending and thought-provoking tale of the love and strength of multiple generations of Farrow women. I liked this book better than “Spells for Forgetting”, but I didn‘t have a strong emotional connection like it seems many other reviewers experienced. 🎧

Adrienne Young delivers once more! She pulls in all of her neat tonal tricks familiar to readers of “Spells for Forgetting” in this one, while offering up a fresh spin on time travel. My only gripe, which is admittedly minor, was that we are never actually told how Esther got those darn seeds.

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This had all the elements necessary for a great story—mysterious family curse/ailment/something, mystery, family secrets, epic love affair—and yet I found myself surprisingly unmoved. Just an okay read for me though my opinion seems to be an outlier.

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Book. Hangover. 😭😭😭. Omg this was amazing.

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Time travel books are just so much fun for me, I think because there are no rules. Each author gets to define the restrictions, the how, the why of travel. This one has a red door that might be mistaken for an hallucination. The rules here were intricate and I had do some backtracking before it all made sense. But yea, I easily suspended my disbelief for this set of rules!

This story made me rethink the entire idea and happenings referred to as deja vu. I read this book with this anticipatory ache in my chest and, at one point, was too scared to read on in case it didn‘t go the way I needed it to go. It was my unmaking!