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Just arrived today 😍 my toxic trait is immediately wanting to abandon my current read for these. One book at a time I guess *kicks wall*

I couldn‘t resist! The book was a poetry collection by a new-to-me author, Thomas Curtis Clark.

Great storyline. Multiple narrators on the audio that were all really easy to follow. I appreciate how Baldacci‘s characters are so clear and separate from one another. While this is the third in the series, he gives you enough backstory to catch on without so much that you get bored. This character, Travis Devine, is one of our favorites. Flawed, realistic, and driven.

Knocked off several #OffTheShelf2025
@Librariana - some physical and some audio :)

#JanuaryReCap

This should have been a DNF. I couldn't make myself interested in Grace or Becker. I did love the descriptions of Eris, the remote Scottish island where a famed artist moved. All of the people involved were shallow, selfish, and petty. The second someone pursued a bit of freedom or was happy in their lives it was shown as a bad thing.

"All is fair in love and war, and friendship is love, too, isn't it? And a kind of war sometimes as well."

Oof! This is my first Follett and I think he must have owed his publisher a book. I have heard great things about his historical fiction novels, but this was not great. I was expecting an exciting “stop an outbreak” kind of book. Instead, it was rather dull. I plowed on thinking there was going to be a huge twist. Nope!

Finished January 27, 2025.

4🌟
I thoroughly enjoyed this fast-paced thriller. It was right up my alley, I love survival stories! This is the first book of read by this author and I can't wait to read more.

Dan Brown never disappoints. This 1998 thriller about NSA surveillance was clearly ahead of its time.

#7
Makes you think through the whole book as to who is doing the stuff going on

One of my favorite Booktok influencers did not like this book. Perhaps this story has been done before but it kept me hooked the entire time. What a trip! Cavanagh is one of my favorite authors by far and he did not disappoint me with this story. It took me a minute to connect one of the main characters to the entire story line and I did figure out what was happening near the end but still suspenseful! Great book!