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Started The Good Daugher by Karin Slaughter - it's really good so far but I'm barely a 100 pages in.

Happy New Year!

Finished the Brazilian about the guide dog and her owner. Loved it.

Started A Question of Trust by Penny Vincenzi on Blush's recommendation

Reading The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall (I think I got the recommend from Blush). I like it a lot.

Needed something light, so I grabbed a Elin Hilderbrand

Finished The Good Daugher by Karin Slaughter. I liked it but felt like there were too many attempts at twists at the end.

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman - I just loved it. This is a prequel to Practical Magic, which I haven't read, but of course have seen the movie. I curious to read it now.

Next up is The Vanishing Season.

Blush, I liked The Bookseller. I love parallel universes stories.

Read a Brazilian short story, a sequel to a YA novel I read a while ago. It was cute.

Finished A Question of Trust. It was good, in a trashy sense. I was *furious* because the blurb gave away something that only happens in the second half of the book! What kind of moron thinks that's a good idea? I was bored through most of the first half because I knew what was coming. Anyway, I'm sure I'll read more by her. Blush, have you read that trilogy? I think the first one's called No Angel? The Spoils of Time, that's what the trilogy's called.

Not sure what's next.

The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen - it was decent. I figured out what was going on about halfway through.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman - pretty sure I'm going against the grain but I HATED this book. Eleanor, as a character, is completely unrealistic. So many things didn't make sense.

I think Bonfire by Krysten Ritter is next

Bonfire by Krysten Ritter - Decent. It wandered a bit in the middle but was good, quick read.

Next up is either Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng or The Rooster Bar by John Grisham

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman - pretty sure I'm going against the grain but I HATED this book. Eleanor, as a character, is completely unrealistic. So many things didn't make sense.

This was my favorite book of 2017 and when I saw you'd started it I was like "uh oh" This is precisely the kind of book we tend to disagree more about.

I started No Angel by Penny Vincenzi. So far I'm enjoying it more than A Question of Trust.

Sílvia wrote: This was my favorite book of 2017 and when I saw you'd started it I was like "uh oh"

I laughed when I went to goodreads and saw that you had rated it 5 stars.

And because I just assume I'll love the next one I never read the blurbs

I don't think I trust any authors that much! I've at least liked everything I've read by Isabel Allende, for example, but I wouldn't skip the blurbs.

Mellen, I should definitely put all your 1-star books on my to-read shelf.

Seems that I'm also reading The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld. I bought it before I started the Penny Vincenzi, got to 25% and didn't like it, was going to return it, but then thought "what the hell, it's so short". I thought it was going to be a thriller, but so far it's a drama with very little suspense.

On to the 3rd book in the Elin Hilderbrand series. Good fluff reading!

Couldn't get into The Rooster Bar.

Finished LIttle Fires Everywhere. It was good - the ending was a little convoluted.

I read a bunch of books on vacation.

Operation Hailstorm by Brett Arquette - I think this is self-published, the author messaged me on Goodreads and offered me to download a free copy in exchange for reviewing it. It was actually pretty entertaining, although it had some self-published quirks. My favorite line was "He thought about accidentally poking her in the eye to see if she was wearing contacts, but he couldn't think of a way to nonchalantly pull that off." LOL. Anyway, the plot was good, and I enjoyed it.

All Stories are Love Stories by Elizabeth Percer - This was really good. It was set in San Francisco during an earthquake.
Fitness Junkie by Lucy Sykes - This was laugh-out-loud funny in parts. Overall it was light and fluffy, a fun beach read.
All by Myself, Alone by Mary Higgins Clark - Mystery set on a cruise ship. Not bad, but not great either.
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - Another mystery set on a cruise ship, LOL. I enjoyed this one more than the Clark one.

Everyone I know has given 4 stars to Little Fires Everywhere, so I think I'll give it a shot. I found her first book very well written, but so depressing. Have you guys read it?

I'm still reading No Angel by Penny Vincenzi. Page 470, I think. It's entertaining, but SO soap-opera-ish.

Finished The Job of the Wasp by Colin Winnette - what a weird book. It was a mystery/thriller that never truly made sense. It was short so I kept reading but it never really came together.

I'm about halfway through Red Clocks by Leni Zumas - It's a dystopian novel - abortion is illegal in the US, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo (taken from goodreads). The writing is very different and sort of choppy but I'm enjoying the story. It's taking me a looong time to read though.

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas - I ended up really loving this book. The writing is intentionally choppy so it's something you'd have to be in the right mood to read it, I think.

I'm about halfway through The Cruel Prince by Holly Black - It's about mortals living among faeries in their world, which coexists alongside the mortal world. It's pretty decent so far.