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Run by Blake Crouch
dark
reflective
medium-paced
2.0
It pains me to rate this so low. Crouch is a solid 4-5 star read for me every time. An always recommend if someone is looking for sci-fi. I would be so bold to say a favorite author, because he USUALLY can’t miss. This book is not that man. We all have work that isn’t our best, the publisher just chose to rerelease his and bring attention to it 😭🫠
The last 20ish% there was a GLIMPSE of the master storyteller we have come to love but by that point we were too far gone and there was no saving this train wreck.
When Crouch titled this book Run I didn’t think it quite literally meant the entire novel was just them moving, nothing else happens for the first 50%.
Drive
Get attacked
Cole is a complete dumbass (I know he is 7)
Sleep
Repeat
You just read the first 50% of the book
There was so much potential for this story line, and Crouch has proven that he can write it phenomenally so to rerelease the story in this state is utterly confusing.
This is just a gripe to gripe. Tell me why the spelling of Naomi’s nickname went from Na to Nay halfway through the book??? Did the editor read this before slapping the rerelease up or?
****SPOILERS****
Honestly I could have probably let the monotony of the story go but on top of that the amount of lucky breaks and perfect moments this family had was astounding! They were complete idiots and they somehow managed to kill everyone they came in contact with and minimal life threatening injuries. Dee is quite literally shot in the femoral artery at the end and lives.
And then Cole is affected by the Aurora but waits until 60% to divulge some hella important information about him being able to tell who is also affected? Like I said, he is a dumbass. He is 7. That kid would have been talking about seeing lights nonstop the moment he saw them floating around heads. Kids don’t have a filter.
I will say Naomi being the one in the prologue, chefs kiss. The very beginning and very end is what saved this from being a 1 star.
****END SPOILERS****
In conclusion; Run away from this book.
The Murder After the Night Before by Katy Brent
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
5.0
Fun mindless whodunnit
What the Wife Knew: A Novel by Darby Kane
Book Dynamics✨
fast-paced
3.0
Book Dynamics✨
Multiple POV
Nonlinear Timeline
Whodunnit
In true Darby fashion I was hooked from page one but unfortunately this ended up being a little lackluster.
I had it figured out from page 1 which isn’t usually the case for a Darby book - if you exclude her last which I like to forget exists 🙃
I can look past a predictable thriller if it’s fun while it plays out but damn was this repetitive. And it wasn’t repetitive in the way that we needed to build the plot, it was just repeating the same things over and over for no reason I had to start skimming towards the end bc I just couldn’t do it anymore.
The meat of the story is great. It’s a very fun take on a whodunnit and very what the fuck as you would expect from Darby. It’s just not dialed in like it should be.
The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
As much as I love these characters some books aren’t meant to have sequels and I feel this is one of them.
This is cute but not living up to the original so I’m going to allow The Guncle to live as a standalone in my mind since it’s a top book ever for me.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
As much as I love these characters some books aren’t meant to have sequels and I feel this is one of them.
This is cute but not living up to the original so I’m going to allow The Guncle to live as a standalone in my mind since it’s a top book ever for me.
Tragic by Devney Perry
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
5.0
Kaines story destroyed me and then put me back together again 😭🥹🥰
The Women by Kristin Hannah
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.0
“Thank god for girlfriends. In this crazy, chaotic, divided world that was run by men, you could count on the women.”
Book Dynamics✨
Two Parts
1 POV
Third Person Narration
I want to be clear that I did LOVE this book, but compared to Hannah’s others it’s not a 5 star read. It lacked emotional punch for me and felt very predictable.
I would read a user manual for how to watch paint dry if it was written by Kristin Hannah so I still ate this up. The writing is beautiful and the story is well paced and thought provoking. I know I am very much in the minority with a lower rating.
The first 200 pages felt fast and chaotic and I know that is purposeful bc we are in the midst of war but it made it devoid of any depth for me. Once Frankie was stateside Hannah does a great job of showing the emotional turmoil of Frankie’s PTSD but I still didn’t feel connected to her character. I just found myself cackling at the predictability more than anything. Which I think is what contributed to my lack of emotional connection. I still had a damn good time reading it. I can’t get in to specifics without giving anything away though.
In true Hannah fashion the friendships make the book. They are why we’re all here and why we keep coming back. No one does female friendship like her! 🥹👏🏼 Barb and Ethel are down ass bitches and WE LOVE THEM!
Overall: if you like Hannah’s other books or historical fiction in general grab it you won’t be disappointed