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"It had potential, and I liked Keeble's sardonic voice, for a bit, but after awhile it all got repetitive and the story got overly complicated and hard to follow. This book was purely for research purposes and it was a struggle to get through, kind of like, Summer Reading 👍."  1 Star Pros  Keeble's voice is sardonic and offbeat and I appreciated it, at first. It eventually started to grow old though. Like, her obliviousness just became tedious eventually.  Cons:  So much was happening in this novel, all of it at the same time and it all just got very confusing. It needed to focus on just one thing/The protagonist is so unforgettable that I had a hard time remembering her name for this review.  Full Review Xanthe Jane Green loves Vampires. She's a read all the books, seen all the tv/movies, knows all the characters, all the myths, all the legends. Vampires are her life. And when she wakes up in a coffin and realizes, through a befuddled conversation with her app...

"The final book in The Expanse series, Corey brought everything to a nice, solid conclusion. There were mind bending hallucinations, shared consciousness and all the insanity that comes along with the Protomolecule but it's the end game and James Holden is determined to see everything through to the finish. I'm glad I got the chance to follow the crew of the Rocinante on their truly epic journey." 4 Stars Pros:  They got the band back together/The pork pie hat 🤫❤️/It was a satisfying end to the series.  Cons:  Proto-Molecule, who killed the creators, like, super epic, far flung, mind bending kind of stuff at points, very trippy to read.    Full Review Extreme measures are being taken to get Teresa Duarte back in the hands of Laconia. She’s shipped on the Rocinante for a year and to Jim’s surprise, has become an integral part of the crew. But through all of it, they're still on the run from the strongest military force in the history of time. Jim knows a ship is...

"I think the lesson of this book is "think before you speak." Other than that, I felt like it was the author trying to show off her knowledge of different religions but Marlowe, the protagonist, wasn't smart enough to realize how to interact with these different Pantheons. And she never, ever learned. This was just a poorly written, badly edited, underwhelming book and I just wasn't impressed. " 2 Stars.  Pros:  The book itself was beautiful, the pages were bound with blue edges but the story was severely lacking.  Cons:   Dial back on the melodrama can we please? Marlowe's first reaction of, pitching a fit and telling Caliban to go away, that she never wants to see him again, leads to him disappearing, DUH. You have to think before you speak when dealing with humans and deities.   Full Review Marlowe grew up dirt poor, never had any friends and was raised by an overbearing, abusive, religious zealot of a Mother. The only comfort she finds is in the form...

"A simple, honest, touching story about a boy and his dogs, hunting raccoons in the foothills of the Ozark mountains. It has faith, love and loyalty and it hit just as hard as an adult as it did when I was a kid."  3 Stars Pros:  Billy's love for his pups, Old Dan and Little Ann is the most pure and genuine love there is and there's never any doubting it/Touched upon the idea of God/Heaven/Faith in a tender and respectful way.  Cons:  I had trouble with the passage of time in this novel, I was unsure of how much time had passed between chapters, so all of it seemed to happen very quickly, it was a little jarring at times/I do not approve of hunting unless you're using all parts of the animal and need to kill said animal to survive, even then, I'm not a fan of it, so the whole constant hunting of small woodland creatures was a bit cringe-worthy.  Full Review One night, on his way home from work, Billy Coleman witnesses a dog fight. He, at first, can't help ...