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A.B.’s 2025 Year in Books
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Criminal by K.B. Hoyle - Blog Tour! #amreading #giveaway
K.B. Hoyle is a fantastic author. I adored her Gateway Chronicles fantasy series geared toward young adults, and I also loved her first foray into the New Adult genre titled Breeder. You can take a look back at my review of Breeder here. I was recently blessed with an advanced review copy of Breeder's sequel, Criminal, in exchange for a fair and honest review. Criminal picks up right where Bre Read more of this blog post »
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More than anything else this is an ode to a neurodivergent MMC and while the story isn't bad, it's a bit OTT in that regard for my tastes. For the record, I do enjoy stories with neurodivergent characters, but I prefer when that's a character trait r ...more |
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DNF: 45% The FMC's mother is an addict. This may have been mentioned in the trigger warnings (I don't read them since I don't have triggers), I'm not sure, but I hate when addiction is used as a guilt inducing or blackmail plot point. Moot point. Alien ...more |
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“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love…and then we return home.” - Australian Aboriginal Proverb”
― Lifeboat
― Lifeboat
“...I’m tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I’m tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped out of my chest every damned day. I’m tired of waking up in the morning, and then remembering...”
― Lifeboat
― Lifeboat
“I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.”
― The Beacon
― The Beacon
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| Aussie Readers: The place for all your Aussie Authors for 2013 | 51 | 144 | Aug 25, 2013 09:06PM | |
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“My skin also blue tinted from the cold, and completely spent, I let go allowing the current to do what it longed to do since I’d entered the river.”
― Lifeboat
― Lifeboat
“Why was it always easier to say the things in the dark, you couldn’t say in the light?”
― Lifeboat
― Lifeboat
“On this one long, blessed night we refused to worry, allowing only hopes and dreams for the future of the human race, held in the miniscule hands of these newborns.”
― Lifeboat
― Lifeboat
“Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire of a thousand suns, burned through my belly. I tried to squirm away from his hands, using mine to push him away.”
― Lifeboat
― Lifeboat
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Thanks for your friendship here on Goodreads, Cheryl. I look forward to reading your updates. Cheers Jill
Hi Cheryl,Thanks for supporting my gutsy memoir, Me and Her.
Good luck in the Giveaway.
Cheers,
Karen :)
Cheryl! Thanks for the friendship and for adding Drawing Free to your to-read list!
