July 2025

[Rowan]

I finished Peter Swanson's new one, Kill Your Darlings. Do not recommend - totally phoned in and the ending sucked.

I have It's a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan up next. A romance sounds good right about now.

I also have Riley Sager's latest waiting for me in my stack.

[Korie]

Going to try again for the Hunger Games prequel (Songbirds and Snakes or something)? I have such a hard time reading in the summer lol

[Spudd]

I finished that Irish mystery novel - "Himself", by Jess Kidd. I wouldn't really recommend it. It was just OK.

Now I'm reading "The Rice Mother" by Rani Manicka. It's about a Sri Lankan girl who gets an arranged marriage to a Malaysian dude and has to move to Malaysia with this guy she never met before her wedding. So far it's not great, but I'm hoping it will get better. I think I downloaded it probably like 10 years ago when we were going to Malaysia on a cruise.

[Rowan]

I read Under the Dome for Stephen King Summer. It is LONG. It took me about 9 days to read at 1000+ pages. I actually liked it better than I expected but didn't love the ending.

It hasn't been a great month in terms of quality. I'm ranging in the 2-3.5 stars all month. I read the latest Riley Sager despite it having horrible reviews. I should have listened. It was pretty awful.

I just started Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall. It has great reviews so hopefully this will kick me off this bad reading run.