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It's a Love Story
by Annabel Monaghan
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Quick read. Strong characters/ Funny and easy to read. Needed to keep reading... Love this author.

the silent patient
by alex michaelides
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A disappointment. There has been so much hype about this title. There is no way a therapist would be able to engage in the investigative actions that Theo did. It is too bad - i waited a long time to read this.

Marriage Be Hard
by Kevin Fredericks & Melissa Fredericks
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book especially getting the opportunity to hear both the perspectives of the wife & husband. I really appreciated the sincerity of the topics discussed and the advice given accompanied by a little jokey joke here and there. I would recommend for married couples of all stages; engaged couples; and single or dating readers who eventually would like to be married.

Family Reunion
by Nancy Thayer
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Good summer reading book, setting on Nantucket. All about family, relationships & communications. Especially love the grandmother/granddaughter relationship.

Housemaid's Wedding
by Freida McFadden
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There isn't much to this short story. It tells the story of Millie and Enzo's wedding day. Of course, Millie is getting death threats and there are strangers watching her. The Housemaid's Wedding is meant to take place between The Housemaid's Secret and The Housemaid is Watching. Maybe it has more impact if you have just read McFadden's Housemaid series. Really don't bother unless you love Millie.

Woman, Eating
by Claire Kohda
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4.5 stars I found this book to be very relateable in a sense. The way how Lydia, or Lyd, would view herself, based on her mother’s views. How she tries to grow from that experience, but still finds ways to go back to old habits. There’s something about the way Lydia thinks. It reminds me of myself. Even the way she was assssing Ben in the beginning of the book was so me. Smooth and perverse in a sense. Aware to details. The was she describes people, like Ben for instance, is an intimate yet sickly sweet way that adds onto the experience of this book. Her akwardness is also a familiar feeling, being out of place and not knowing how to piece your feelings…The way she views her art and how it relates to her trying to find her human side through the demon is another interesting element. The way Lydia just describes the feel and sensuality of human skin and blood is so intimate, and disgusting but beautiful at the same time. My only reason I’m rating this 4.5 stars instead of 5 is that I wish there was more detail or background to be fleshed out in certain parts. One thing I have in mind was Gideon and her interactions with him. But overall I’d recommend this book to anyone.

A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
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It took me 5 MONTHS to read this meaning there’s 5 months worth of tear stains in the majority of the pages erm….I understand why Jack Edward’s said this should be a classic, with the human condition, depression and suicide, love, and relationships. I swear it’s so good. [This part is my Goodreads review]: It took me 5 months to finish this book, and it’ll take me 5 months to get over this book. I know I’ve said I’ve resonated with a character, but I’ve never felt that I was striped bare—blood, bones, guts, and all—the way I have reading A Little Life. Hanya wrote more than what people on social media talk about: this book is love, art, grief, assault, depression, pain, anguish, desperation, life and death itself. What it means to love someone, that feeling that might be hard to describe: Hanya captured in 814 pages. The fear of losing creativity, fear of missing out, fear of fear itself. The fear I felt myself, in which I felt seen. I understand Jude, and I understand Willem, Malcom, JB, Harold, Julia, Andy. I myself or my friends have been in similar predicaments, we just try to keep on. I cried throughout, yet the end broke me. One thing I’d like to point out is that this book, though heart-wrenching, has beautiful commentary on art, on being a creative and togetherness: companionship and teamwork. These elements, my most favourite elements, are topics most people reading / reviewing this book tend to leave out and only focus on the heartbreaking moments. I just want people to know that in the dark, there is light, no matter how hard or how long it takes. It is the end that will dictate how I treat others, as well as myself: “And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”

Lies He Told Me
by James Patterson
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This book was an easy read. It had a good flow with the action. Somewhat predictable but did finished it in 2 days.

Goal
by Alexandria House
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Goal is a passionate, raw second-chance romance wrapped in the vulnerability of Black love done right. It doesn’t shy away from hard emotions — grief, resentment, longing — but it also doesn’t leave you stuck there. The tenderness feels earned, the love feels grown, and Alexandria House gives us heat with healing.

Warriors #6: The Darkest Hour
by Erin Hunter
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The book The Darkest Hour by Erin Hunter is very intriguing and appealing to the reader. The book is the last in the original series of The Warriors books and before the series The New Prophecies. This book states how Fireheart the main character has to undergo a new type of job by being the leader of Thunderclan after the previous leader Bluestar dies. He has to fight against Scourge the leader of Bloodclan and emerges successful.
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