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#StorySettings Day 28: The #Island is one of the most disturbing picturebooks for young people that I often recommend. At the very core of this book is an overwhelming fear of those who are different. The storytelling straightforward, the plot crystal clear with a continual build-up that puts a growing lump in the reader‘s throat as one witnesses the extent of the many atrocities people tend to commit in the name of fear. https://wp.me/pDlzr-40F

Loved the setting, plot was good, but the story just failed to really capture me. It was so slow to pick up that when the turning point happened I was just ready to be done with it. Not her best 😕

Pretty slow start but develops into a nice mystery. I thought it was a pick but then realized I had forgotten I had even read it within 3 days of finishing it. I can‘t even remember the ending. On the Book of the month scale, it would be a “liked it.”

I loved All The Missing Girls but cannot get into this book. The second one a I have DNF'd. She's just not clicking with me, lately. I'm not even going to attempt The Only Survivors. Probably, try to read them another time.

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Finish:
Library book: Last To Vanish

Start :
Audiobook: Faithless in Death
Kindle ARC's: Deadlock
Dark Corners
Library book: The Only Survivors

2023 read little slow getting into it but got better lots of twists and surprises! 5/10

I didn‘t end up enjoying this that much but I did finish it so I‘m giving it a so-so rating. It took a long time for anything to happen. I think I may have liked it more in print. This was the most monotone narration I have ever listened to, and that made the book seem more plodding. Not the best by Megan Miranda in any case.

I‘m enjoying this book but as a North Carolina native my teeth are set on edge every time the narrator says Appalachian.

This book is set in North Carolina and here we say App-ah-LATCH-un. Not Appa-LAY-shun. I just had to get that off my chest. It‘s a pet peeve.

I have heard about this book for a long time and after recently hearing the author on a podcast decided to read the young adult version. While it's not the most uplifting book, it is hopeful. Progress of prison reform, while painfully slow, is being made thanks to the author's organization the Equal Justice Initiative (EJL).