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Clare-Dragonfly
Pride and Protest | Nikki Payne
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Bailedbailed

There‘s nothing wrong with this book. I just don‘t have any enthusiasm for it. And why bother spending time on books I‘m not enthusiastic about?

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Hooked_on_books
The Paris Express | Emma Donoghue
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Bailedbailed

I typically really like Donoghue, so this surprises me. And I‘m honestly not sure if this is me, the book, or the format. I found the audio reader hard to hear somehow, and that certainly didn‘t help. (I think the performance was fine and the mixing just needs to be adjusted.) I may try it again in print just because of the author.

squirrelbrain I started this but only read a tiny bit before all ‘the lists‘ came out 🤪. I wasn‘t particularly drawn to it yet. 2d
TheKidUpstairs I've been told this one starts really slow, but when it picks up, it's a good read. @squirrelbrain 2d
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain I made it about a third of the way and was so bored. But @TheKidUpstairs you give me hope for the print! 2d
squirrelbrain Thank you @TheKidUpstairs - I‘ll push on through once I get back to it. 1d
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5feet.of.fury
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Bailedbailed

Bailing. I‘ve followed the author on insta for a while. She describes it as a “why choose/reverse harem inspired by ACOTAR with spice from book 1” & I was like “ok I ❤️ trash, let‘s go” but 50% in aside from the fae being divide into “Starlight, Forest courts, etc.” nothing is like ACOTAR, the worldbuilding isn‘t luscious, the characters aren‘t strong, the dialogue is terrible, &the spice finally arrived with the FMC witnessing a very unsexy orgy

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Amor4Libros
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Bailedbailed

I‘n doing a bit of cleaning up on my “Currently Reading” shelf. This has been on it for too long and I find myself not reaching for it anymore.

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Amor4Libros
The Coin: A Novel | Yasmin Zaher
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Bailedbailed

You know how sometimes you‘re reading a book and thinking: Is this a waste of my time? Well, this felt like it. I just couldn‘t get where this story was going…And don‘t get me wrong, I don‘t mind reading about a character‘s day to day, but this just felt like it was leading nowhere.

Bailed at 25%

ChaoticMissAdventures Such a bummer. I had high hopes for this, but people are not enjoying it. I have it out from the library now, so I might try a chapter or two, but it is not looking good! 5d
IMASLOWREADER love the power of DNF 5d
squirrelbrain You‘re right to bail - it didn‘t go anywhere and got considerably weirder as it went along. 5d
Amor4Libros @squirrelbrain Glad I went with my gut instinct! 4d
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booklover3258
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Bailedbailed

Sad that I wasn't able to finish this book. It was all pictures of his writings/documents and a few photographs. What I did read was boring to me and didn't want to continue.

For the rest of my review, visit my Vlog at:

https://youtube.com/shorts/QEVL8VF4KbA?feature=share

Enjoy!

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Hooked_on_books
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Bailedbailed

I was glad to have seen some of the somewhat ambivalent reviews of this from other Littens, because it made it easier to bail when it wasn‘t working for me. I gave the audio about an hour and a half and I was just so bored.

squirrelbrain Of course, I listened to the whole thing because it was ON A LIST. 🙄 6d
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Blueberry
Crow Mary: A Novel | Kathleen Grissom
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Bailedbailed

Perfectly fine book with a great author but I am just not into it right now. I'll finish it some other day.

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OutsmartYourShelf
55 | James Delargy
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Panpan

Police officer Sergeant Chandler Jenkins is manning the rural station in Wilbrook, Western Australia on edge of 100s of miles of unexplored wilderness. It's the usual kind of day until a dishevelled & injured man stumbles into the station. His name is Gabriel & he was abducted whilst hitch-hiking by a man named Heath. Heath had driven Gabriel to a remote cabin before telling Gabriel that he was to be victim no. 55, but Gabriel managed to escape.

OutsmartYourShelf Chandler has never dealt with a potentially big case like this before & has to call in the higher-ups, including Mitch, the man who used to be his partner whilst training who has now made the rank of Inspector. Chandler is making sure he has all his bases covered when a second man appears. Also dishevelled & injured, he says his name is Heath & he was abducted by a serial killer named Gabriel..... 7d
OutsmartYourShelf The synopsis to this was immediately intriguing to me & the premise is really good. Unfortunately the execution of it was not so good - the story became bogged down around Chandler & Mitch's antagonistic working relationship. There seemed to be no real reason as to why Mitch was so nasty to Chandler & it just made him seem like an ass. Also police procedure seemed to go out the window & one of the suspects escapes police custody TWICE! 7d
OutsmartYourShelf The worst thing though was the ending - what the heck was that? 2⭐

My thanks to #NetGalley & publishers, Simon & Schuster UK, for the opportunity to read an ARC & apologies for the very late review.

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3941916271
Read 21st - 24th Mar 2025

#ReadAway2025 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
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Littlewolf1
Untitled | Untitled
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Bailedbailed

I want to say I gave this book a fair chance, because I picked it up three times since February, but I couldn‘t make it past page 15. This is definitely a NOPE for me. On a positive note, I‘m getting my Kindle cleaned up from all those stuff your Kindle events I did last year. #Roll100 #82 from February.

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