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Heartless Hunter (Crimson Moth, #1)

by Kristen Ciccarelli (Goodreads Author)

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"I just can’t get invested. There’s a severe lack of chemistry and the dialogue feels more like people saying a line than conveying actual feelings.

The framework is there. But the rest is lacking and it makes me not care for the characters or where the story is going. The stakes don’t feel high and the romance doesn’t grip me despite a theoretical good setup" — Sep 16, 2025 06:27AM

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“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

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“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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