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L’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at L’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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L.J. Engelmeier
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Not sure how to feel about this one. Reminiscent of Sharp Objects in a distracting way. There’s more sex than mystery (or plot) in this book. The sex doesn’t really move the story forward. It’s just there to make you uncomfortable, which seems like th ...more |
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"Another disappointing thriller because it wasn't really thrilling at all. This book is more about the characters than the plot, but I didn't particularly care for any character. The twist at the end was shocking enough, but it then negates the logic "
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| Feels like the author would rather be writing a family saga than a thriller. Those portions of the text are lengthy and vibrant and the only scenes with any life to them. Everything else is dull in comparison, so much so those scenes feel like summar ...more | |
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| Nothing really happens until the end. Mostly just a bunch of people sitting down having conversations, and having some variation of the same conversation on repeat. There are several writers out there who have taken inspiration from the Slenderman ca ...more | |
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| Pace is very slow. Seems like the sister will be entirely forgotten until that plot line reappears toward the end, and the sister returns in a rather odd way? Just kind of shoehorned in there. (view spoiler) ...more | |
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“Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.”
― Demon in My View
― Demon in My View
“We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”
― Imajica
― Imajica
“Nothing ever begins.
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
― Weave World
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
― Weave World
“Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.”
― Galilee
― Galilee
“That which is imagined can never be lost.”
― Weave World
― Weave World
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