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Oh no, I just read some reviews 🥺

There are 3 times the amount of F words in book 20 as there are in book 1. It doesn't add to its literary quality, that's for sure.

Harry is a great writer! Maybe a little better than his mom. More concise for sure.

Oh my gosh finally getting to the end of this sloggish book. Really enjoying the past in Ireland but that's about it. One character will not say what is going on in her head even though people keep asking and it's INSANE.

This book is so long, and the premise is that a family of adopted sisters is missing one, and the one they're missing is already adopted by another family. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND why the missing sister would even want to go lay a wreath on the watery grave of a man who not only wasn't her father, but she didn't even know him! I wish the editors had insisted on shortening this book. I'll read it. But I'm not convinced.

I'm sad to start this book because it means I'm almost at the end.

Just the escapist palette cleanser I needed.

This is an oldie, and it kind of shows, but it's a total goodie! I am answering the questions and doing the prompts for prayer and self analysis, and it's absolutely working. Sue Eenigenburg is an underappreciated GIFT to global workers.

Taking this super slow, one devotional at a time, and so far I really like it but I feel kind of dumb. It's pretty intellectual.

Have cried through every profile of the victims. These poor families. This is a well written and sensitive account of what happened, and I feel like I am being respectful of the families by reading it.

Every two paragraphs, my heart breaks for this woman!

oh my goodness FINALLY this book is out. I've been waiting for this story since book 1

Read almost half this book in one sitting (yes I should have been doing other things) and can't wait to come back to it. Whoa!

Really enjoying this book although it's more cerebral than the junk I've been consuming, haha.

I hate this book! There's no romance ("his dimple made me smile" is the extent of the crush 80% in), these teenagers are lying to their parents about a secret, impromptu trip to Ireland when they should be in Italy, not to mention the fmc's brother is excellent at football but hates it and no one knows how into music he is. So unrealistic for 15 year olds. Also I've been jetlagged so it's taking forever to finish.

The format of this is UNIQUÍSIMO 😍

I'm desperate to be done with this book and going to take a long (permanent?) break from Elisabeth Elliot.

Just getting started with this thanks to the author and Netgalley. Already loving it. Sarah makes a life that seems impossible (quiet, studious, beautiful, enraptured with God), accessible.

Now I'm over half way through and I still do not like Clara. She is so dense. I do not like dumb female main characters. She doesn't know she's burned out at work, she doesn't know what a good friend is, she doesn't know she's grieving her parents' divorce, she doesn't know that Mack loves her, she doesn't know that pregnancy is not the climax of parenthood.... She's just dumb and I hate her.

Barely started this book and already hate the main character, who is such a feelings-averse workaholic she can't take a 5-day paid vacation her boss insists she take so she can be better at her job. Is this really the reputation millennials have? Do we really think the world will fall apart if we're not holding it? This better get better.

With the exception of vacation to London in July, I've read every day. Was hard to catch up but I think I'm back.

Just started this. I'm elder, and not feeling like a millennial at all, except for the challenges I've faced do match up.

I put this book off for weeks thinking it was going to be dark and sad. The trigger warnings are loud in summaries and reviews, and there's even a content warning at the beginning because the book deals with suicide and sibling death.

But it's beautiful. The characters are absolutely stunning, and this is a story about two traumatized enneagram 4s falling in forbidden love. I can't wait to see how it ends.

I want to love this book because I love Kate Clayborn, but it's falling a bit short. It's so slow, and Jess is sullen (the MMC says stormy), which I don't love. But the mystery is interesting so I'm going to keep going.