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2025 Reading Challenge

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Blake Dodge

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Born

in The United States

Website

https://www.blakedodgebooks.com

Genre

Thriller, Historical Fiction, Classics

Member Since

September 2023

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Blake spent her upbringing in a small town in Minnesota. Her love for writing was developed early and her love of reading was encouraged by her mother who is a third generation bookworm herself. After years of heavily traveling France and other European countries, Blake returned to the USA to establish herself and her business in the Food & Wine Photography business.

Her debut novel "The Chemist's Daughter" is the first book of "The Emerald Network" series.

Book Two " The Smuggler's Son" is set to release in early 2025.

Blake currently lives in Reno Nevada for half of her year, splitting her other half with her family-in-law, in the South of France where she continues her studies in French viniculture, language and cuisine. ...more

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Average rating: 4.44 · 75 ratings · 49 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Chemist's Daughter 4.38 avg rating — 50 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Smuggler's Son 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emerald Cut 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Book Review : The Road

The book club pick of the month was The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

My mother was the one to select this book, her reasoning? Being a book reader who gets through 200+ books in a year, this was one of the only books that has ever made her cry in over 15 years. Plus she remembers the entire plot line, after fifteen years.

When I went to GoodReads to see what the general public thought of this book, I

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