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LeslieO
The Helsinki Affair | Anna Pitoniak
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kelli7990
The Helsinki Affair | Anna Pitoniak
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Bailedbailed

Here‘s my review.

#hailthebail

Texreader It looks good to me. I may check it out, carefully. I‘m not a fan of slow books. 1mo
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kelli7990
The Helsinki Affair | Anna Pitoniak
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I‘m only reading this book. Simon & Schuster sent me a physical ARC of this book when I was in their influencer program but I never read it. I‘m listening to it on audio right now. I‘m not enjoying this book. I don‘t think it‘s for me but I‘ll keep reading it. If I can‘t get into it then I‘ll DNF it.

#weekendreads

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kelli7990
The Helsinki Affair | Anna Pitoniak
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I started this book when I went for a walk to the park today. I just listened to the first chapter. I don‘t know what to think about this book. The weather was nice and I enjoyed my walk but I really wish I could‘ve taken my dog Toppy with me. I was planning to take her once the weather got nice again. It felt weird not having her there with me. I cried when I got home. Well at least I got to take her for a walk before she passed away.

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TracyReadsBooks
Real Tigers | Mick Herron
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Pickpick

This series is the only exception to my “read it before you see it” rule. Gary Oldman is phenomenal as Jackson Lamb—I love the way he plays the character—and having now read three of the books, I can say that the tv show does a great job of adapting already great stories. Laugh out loud funny, tense (even though I knew what was going to happen), and filled with more flatulence you would expect in a spy novel, this was another fantastic story.

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TracyReadsBooks
Real Tigers | Mick Herron
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I mean, that‘s sort of an emergency in my home…

😬😂

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 2mo
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TracyReadsBooks
Real Tigers | Mick Herron
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Starting the weekend with Jackson Lamb!

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Robotswithpersonality
Joe Country | Mick Herron
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Mehso-so

Oh, Mick, you were doing so well in making each entry in this series a tensley-plotted and craftily-resolved story, with maybe a hint about what might be raised in the next novel. This alone provided an experience that had me coming back for more. This book, however, while containing as much tension and as many twists and turns, raised so many concerns, not enough of which were resolved, and those that were, were not very satisfactorily done. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The big showdown with River and his father is nothing more than a cliffside scuffle, and a few pages at the end suggest Harkness's multi-book pain-in-the-assery is now dealt with, no justice or face-to-face closure for his son?! Or Harkness is not dead and this a bullshit misdirect. 🙄 Coe's literal worst nightmare is, for all the reader can tell, how he spent his last moments? 2mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? Emma, the only person who after wrongfully being pushed out of a promising career track, tells Taverner to fuck off, rather than go Slough House, and helping out when it wasn't her job anymore, ends up dead?! The entire book is one long torturous descent of an innocent man into the depths of isolation and depression at the whims of bad actors and at the end he's scarred and his foes' fates are glossed over or pending? 2mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/5 It's obvious it's set up for the next novel, which hopefully will be that much more explosive as a result, but 6 books into a series is pretty deep to start bringing out the type of cliffhanger-adjacent endings which I loathe. 🙎🏼‍♂️ Oh, and if it's possible, even though it's standard that people die and are betrayed in each book, I think things actually got darker than usual. 😕 2mo
Robotswithpersonality 5/5 Either the next book will redeem the series, or it will be the last one I read. 😡
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Robotswithpersonality
Joe Country | Mick Herron
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Super fun road trip! 😆

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