The Loose Ends List: Review

This book wrecked me. I read the first third of this book and had to stop, journal, sleep, and come back to it days later. Why? Because it feels authentic. It does what a book is supposed to do. It makes you laugh and cry and shake your fist at the world. It's easy to connect to these characters because they feel like people you already know and love. I finished the remainder of the book on Monday night and had to stop at least 10 times to cry. The ending is worth it. Connect to the story. Really engage with the characters. The investment you put into this book will all be worth it. At the end, I experienced catharsis and now I feel scrubbed clean. Death is a hard subject to tackle. Death with dignity even more so. As I said before, this book wrecked me, but it was so very worth it.

Good for fans of: world travel, romance, YA, cruising

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A Simple Favor: Review

Let me start off by saying this...I don't often read thrillers. Why? I have an overactive imagination and a third degree black belt. I'm not the kind of person who needs to feel freaked out or that something is watching me. Also, why I don't do haunted houses. A Simple Favor is one of those books that you can't put down once you pick it up. It sucks you in and you just have to know how the story ends. I'm normally a pretty vocal reader- I'll laugh out loud at things that are funny, but I said a LOT of bad words while reading this book. There were so many WTF?! moments. I started reading it last night and had to put it down for the night and read something lighthearted(thanks Mutts comics) before bed. I picked it up again this morning, read for 2 hours before work, and finished it on my lunch break. Wow. The story loops and pulls and wraps you in it so tightly that you won't know who the bad guy really is or if the whole story is just a delusi...

January 2019 Wrap Up

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Top 3 Books of the Year

There is a great post on Goodreads right now about the Goodreads Team's Top 3 Reads of the Year. I love posts like that because they are so personal. Everyone loves different things for different reasons. Some of the top books are books that were written decades ago, but are new to the reader. I love those. My Top 3 Books of the Year are: -Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Mass -Only Human by Sylvain Nuevel -The Loose Ends list by Carrie Firestone What are your top 3 reads of the year? What makes you choose a book as one of your top 3 reads of the year? For me: 1. Made me think 2. Made me feel 3. Put me in the character's shoes 4. Taught/ reminded me of a valuable lesson

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