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A European who at 37 still doesn't know that the first thing you buy after a plane ticket to the US is travel health insurance should probably have his passport revoked. Just saying.

"At the rate this planet is going, an alien invasion might feel like a rescue."

Amen.

Sure, GR, I'm to blame for not coming around as much as I used to, but it does make it a little difficult to be social in social media when you don't get notifications of messages received...like, ever, for months now.
And if you happen to see them by chance while scrolling your feed, it doesn't matter if you reply, because the person you're talking to most likely won't ever get a notification and see your reply.

I'm not even a native speaker and that hyphen in every no one is still driving me crazy since I started this book. Why ruin a good thing with something so avoidable? Why?!

Umpteenth reread, but it's my first time on a buddy read... I'm jumping up and down for the excitement!! 😁

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The percentage is only to mark where Kaje Harper's short begins. That's the only one I've read so far (and the main reason I bought this anthology). As long as she keeps writing in the Hidden Wolves universe, I'll read whatever she puts in front of me in any way, shape or form.
This one wasn't up there with my favorites in the series/universe, but it was still well developed for such a short word count.

It's hilarious that Torin's able to predict Quaid's reactions better than Aslan. 😂

"You're a normal person. An engineer, even."

Yeah...the two aren't necessarily synonyms, just saying.





(Happy New Year to you too, GR, and thank you for taking away the progress update function for 2 days and forcing me to choose between never posting this or doing it days later, after I've finished the book. It might be a new year, but some things never change.)

"Just because I'm an engineer doesn't mean I don't enjoy literature."

*thank you*

I've actually been at 38% since the day I started, because that's where the story ends and the short stories begin. I'm updating now because I need a "bookmark" while I go back to the beginning and start my reread.

Yeah, it's that good.

I blame (in this order) Xia, Linda and Teal.

Because once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three is Sit Up, Pay Attention and Read the Damn Book Now.

Hence, I'm blameless, I couldn't do anything different.

Also, I blame all of the above and Rosa because how could I resist a BR with these premises? Again, I'm an innocent victim of circumstances.

I'm afraid to hope... 🤞

Yes, please, this. Keep going and don't disappoint me now, author, it's about time.

More than 4 years since my last read, it's about time I refresh my memory. 😃

You know how distance and time make you remember bad things more kindly? You think about that awful thing from your past and give it the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it wasn't so bad, after all.

Not the new book page. It's just as awful as I remembered it.

“You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know"

Harsh, but true.

(the percentage is estimated, since it's an audiobook)

I woke up thinking I might write a year recap after all, despite my recent less-than-stellar attendance rate on GR, only to find out that not only that's not possible anymore, I can't even comment on my friends' reviews.

To all my friends, if I've liked your review, it means I've read it, tried and failed to comment, and I'll just wish you a Happy New Year and many great books here.

To GR, f**k you very much.

For the second time in a few pages, I thought I knew what was coming and I was already struggling to rein in the eyeroll and instead... well played, author.

"We opened another one in North Beach but the Italians burned it down."
"They what?"
His good-natured expression soured a little. "The Italians didn't want any Chinese in their neighborhood so they torched the place."

We make friends everywhere we go since the times of the Roman Empire.