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The Interpreter's Quick Guide to Self-Employment by Brent Bocian, Rosemary Johnson

informative fast-paced

5.0

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan

5.0

Love Is Murder by Allison Brennan

2.5

Dracula by Bram Stoker

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madu

3.0

I'm just not sure what the focus of this book was. Also, he mentions being stabbed and shot in two or three places in the book, but never expounds on that. There's a lot of him walking around in Italy, but without seeing it, the effect isn't as strong as the author, I'm sure, had hoped.

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

0.0

I had to add like 20 content warnings that I wish I learned about BEFORE reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Confinement, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

This book would have been 100% better if the author didn't blow the ending in the first 50 pages. There's zero tension as a result.

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.

Why are you telling me the history of how West Virginia became a state? Get to the murder stuff.

Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Did not finish book. Stopped at 60%.

Feels like we're going in circles.