So lovely, intricate, sad, positive, perfect.

As good as I remembered from my childhood!

Fizzled out at the end, unfortunately

God I love these books.

Loved everything to do with India and her immigrant experience. But I didn't care for the over-writing in the parts having to do with her daughter. Still, I love this woman!

Huh? This really wasn't for me. I started out liking it but then it turned into nonsense and I didn't care about it at all.

I was really looking forward to this since I loved my first Slaughter book, however this one just didn't click for me. Some good suspense, but lots of cliché and overwriting and repetition.

Hoo-boy this shit is DARK

Pretty good...my first Leonard. How does someone write almost no detail or description and yet the world is so vivid? (Dialogue. The answer is dialogue.)

Argh, I figured it out. And I'm not saying that to brag, I'm disappointed. I love love loved the first part of the book with all the characters in their revelations. But the end was flat for me.

More funny and cute than profound, though the last part made me cry.

Ok so I *think* I might understand why so many people liked this book...however, for reasons similar to Crawdads, it just wasn't for me. Also, yikes 1990s views...

This book is interminable. End already.

Truly one of the most unique, stunning, and beautiful books I've ever read.

Good but waaaaaaay tooooo looooonnnngg. Somewhere between so-so and a pick.

Kate Morton's books are like getting lost in an English country hedge maze: You're very confused for a long time, but you don't mind because it is so utterly beautiful and intriguing, and then everything comes together in the end. (And Joanne Froggatt--Anna on Downton Abbey--is an amazing narrator!)

Super duper funny while also being insightful!

Loved it. Spoke to my soul.

This book...

Damn I wanted to love this. First chapter was awesome. Setting is incredible. But I just didn't connect. Maybe it was the translated prose? Or the staccato style to the chapters? Still, I'm intrigued by the Icelandic setting to try another one of his books.

Really liked it! A wonderfully satisfying ending. Haven't read anything like this before.

Omg so fucking funny

Love love love this. So perfectly spot on and just what I wanted to hear right now.

God I love French's writing. Didn't love this as much as In the Woods, but still really great.

Absolutely delightful ❤️❤️❤️

Lovely and happy (but also bittersweet), a joy to read in this time. Short and sweet, and I plan on giving it to my 12 year old daughter now. (That's Lexi, my 4 year old Bernese Mountain Dog.)

Surprisingly profound. Really really liked it.

Ridiculous and over the top and escapist. Exactly what I needed right now!

While I was impressed with Bardugo's descriptions, nothing about this book clicked for me by page 176 and so I'm putting it down. I don't understand what's happening, I don't like the characters, I feel like I've read similar things, it feels forced...I'm so disappointed. I wanted to like it so much.

#unpopularopinion...1. GORGEOUS writing 2. I know the story of the Trojan War so there was little to no surprises or AHA moments. 3. But my biggest issue? A first-person narrator should be so compelling I can't shake him when I close the book. The only thing I can say about Patroclus is that HE'S REALLY REALLY IN LOVE WITH ACHILLES. Otherwise he has zero personality.

1. Disappointing
2. Yep!!! From Anderson's Bookshop I ordered the rest of The Promised Neverland manga, the first Locke and Key, and the 2nd And 3rd Five Nights at Freddie's books....all for my 12 yo daughter

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Solid mystery/domestic thriller!

This was a doozy. A true "family saga." Extraordinarily written and raw. Expansive yet oh so deep. Will be thinking about for a while now.

Though probably too wordy, it was nonetheless a gorgeous book, whose ending had me tearing up and clutching my heart.

What a beautiful book!

A lot of stuff in this I "knew" but he presented new spins and angles that got me thinking differently and ready to share even more.

The best way I can describe this book is "cinematic." It is fast-paced and very focused on creating crime-scene, insane criminal, and police procedure visuals. For me, though, it was done at the expense of any subtlety and felt kind of generic. Which disappoints me bc I was really looking forward to this one.

Foster kitten Apollo (who is apparently a girl??) is telling me I need to read more.

I commend the author for tackling such timely and difficult subject matter, however I don't think it was executed as well as it could have been. The writing felt basic at best and cliche at worst. The structure also felt rambling in places where it should have been tighter, and not detailed enough in places where depth was necessary.

My heart hurts. Mostly because I recognize so much of her thinking....

Read this little gem on the plane home from Utah.

Funny and honest and filthy and entertaining (did I mention filthy?) 🤣😁

Afraid I have to put this down about halfway through. I'm not sure who her target audience is (tween girls maybe???) but the writing is one exclamation point and all-caps word after another. It reads like an overly long blog post talking down to people who want to be creative. I applaud the concept behind this book, but the exercises are quite dumb. Perhaps they really would work only on young people. It's too bad. Day can be entertaining.

Erm, I feel like this was rambly and its only point was to talk at great length about her affair with Harrison Ford. BUT, I do quite like her writing and I found the actual journal entries to be intelligent, profound, and sad.

My 2019 year-end roundup list!!!

Really good. So smart. Almost....too smart to listen to on audio? Haha I feel the need to buy print just So I can re-read it and fully comprehend her insightfulness.

I am in a terrible reading and creative slump. Holding a book and following words has been difficult. As has been creativity. This was a helpful and delightful (and short!) read in needed times.

1. Um. Hmmm. The most accurate is stay-at-home mom, but I'm currently trying to start a calligraphy business and revive my publishing career. Neither will pay jack squat.aa
2. A Bernese mountain dog, Lexi. A b/w cat, Oreo
3. Fantasy
4. Jacqueline Carey, Liane Moriarty, Kate Atkinson
5. Books? Haha
6. Every damn day
7. Both
8. Absolutely
9. Deep dark midnight blue

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I liked this! It was like a thoroughly entertaining BBC mini series with twists and surprises in every chapter. It was a satisfying onion of a story.