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This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Tilt by Emma Pattee

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challenging emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

📚Review📚

5⭐️

Keeping up with my short and sweet reviews, check out my thoughts on Tilt below👇🏻

Read if you:

✨Can relate to being pregnant/motherhood

✨Want to read something emotional

✨Enjoy contemporary and literary fiction

My Thoughts:

To me, Tilt was so much more than a pregnant woman wandering the streets of Portland after a massive earthquake. It was a metaphor for motherhood while using pregnancy and a natural disaster as the overarching themes. Motherhood is tumultuous, it is earth shattering; it is an earthquake to your identity. It splits you open and leaves you to figure things out alone. Sure we may have people there to help us along the way, but at the end of the day motherhood can feel like incredibly lonely journey. I feel like I’m rambling a little but I just connected with this story so so much and I hope that I’m getting my thoughts across in a concise manner.

Tilt is raw, emotional, and perfectly paced. It’s one of those stories that drops you in the middle of a characters life and takes you out just as abruptly. I don’t cry from books often but this one had me crying, I felt this one with every fibre of my being.

Thank you so much Simon and Schuster Canada for sending me a complimentary finished copy in exchange for an honest review 🫶🏻

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

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dark emotional tense slow-paced