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I have them and they look stunning but I’m still confused about why they’re so small?! 😅

They look amazing!! And that sound top top

Im about to start the second book and I was so shocked when Dylan betrayed Amari. Does he become mean to her in the second book?

I think you should change the title of this video and add “spoiler warnings”. You’ve spoiled many things that aren’t in the description of the book.

Ola! Queria subscrever a illumicrate ou a fairyloot mas estou um bocadinho preocupada com as taxas de alfandega… As tuas caixas costumam ficar presas na alfandega todos os meses? E e muito caro desalfandegar? Desculpa isto ser tao random mas es o primeiro portugues que vi com estas subscription boxes 🥹

I discovered your channel through this video (via Facebook, btw.) Happy Reading! 😎📚👍

Missing Pieces By Tim Weaver Review 2 out of 10. I’ve listened to about halfway and I’m gripped. so, why have I only given it 2 out of 10? Read on and you’ll understand. It begins as a well written suspenseful thriller, a gripping present tense story of Rebeka, a medical doctor and mother, trapped on a small island in the Atlantic off the North American coast in winter and her gritty struggle for survival. It’s also a murder mystery, artfully interwoven with her reflections on the backstory, which slowly provides the reader with the context of her physical circumstances, how she ended up trapped on the island afraid for her life, while also contextualising her psychology. We’re drip-fed information and simultaneously told a ripping yarn. So far this is great stuff. So far, there have been a few few sections written from the perspective of a New York missing persons police investigator who feels, as he approaches imminent retirement, that he can’t let go of a particularly mysterious case. But, as yet, there’s no apparent link between this case and the circumstances of the main protagonist. We just sense that there must be a connection… The main character is believable and she is the only fleshed out character in the first section of the book. Although other characters who are important in her life are well described in her thoughts, the focus is entirely upon her in the first half. This exclusive focus on her thoughts and actions places us firmly in the intense headspace of a lonely woman’s struggle for survival. Rebecca is both believable and empathetic. My only grouch at this point is that a few of her actions are surprising. She is surviving on her wits and demonstrates some hard headedness. However when she finds a speedboat she succeeds in launching it before provisioning it or even checking it’s fuelled and functional and then allows her only realistic means of escape from the island to drift off overnight because she hasn’t teathered it securely. This doesn’t fit in with her other practical behaviours. There’s also the issue of changing the wheel on her vehicle, because she finds an old tyre that matches. There’s no explanation of how she got this replacement tyre onto the wheel. A matching tyre just becomes synonymous with a replacement wheel in the narrative, as though the writer hasn’t realised there’s a difference, because there’s no explanation of how she got this tyre onto her wheel and inflated it. These may seem minor practicalities, but, because they are significant for her survival effort, they matter to the reader. One makes her uncharacteristically stupid, the other just makes no sense in the practical description. However, I shall read on. I hope the police investigator’s perspective is as exciting. Later on the story gets more implausible. I’ve read further now. She’s had months to plan her bid for freedom. She’s trained for the moment. She has her attacker within her power and she fails to act. A second blow of the wrench and she could neutralise the threat and pick up his weapon to defend herself against the second man. She fails to do either. She leaves the first man capable of getting back up and leaves his gun on the floor next to him. These are omissions of such total stupidity that I lost interest in her as a character at this point and stopped listening. Also she forgets that the tyre on the jeep was slashed and so leaves a big clue for her pursuers, because she replaced it with a new one. The reader anticipates this and it makes little sense that a smart character fails to do the same. I think most of her stupid mistakes are simply clumsy contrivances by the author to ratchet up the jeopardy. But in the process we loose sympathy for the character of Rebeka. At this point I wanted the author to just put her out of her misery and have the villain shoot her. As, with four whole hours left of the recording, he wasn’t about to do this, I had to do it for him and free myself from this miserable experience and do something more rewarding. Of course, macho heroes like Jack Reacher are equally implausible. But they at least have the advantage of being the hero we all wish we could be. So although he achieves absurdities, we at least get the feeling that he’ll give it his best when it matters. But the happy medium for me has been the Rory Clements books, and his hero Tom Wilde. These contain a sufficient amount of realism in character and plot, have the interest of being of a 1930s-1940s historical setting and have a main character who is sympathetic, developing, has real personal struggles, often fails, often succeeds because others save him, but in the end he’s not an idiot. It’s really hard to sustain interest in an idiot. So the book gets its two rating because it grabbed me from the outset and I respect this. And the mystery itself is intriguing, if implausible. But that’s it. The failure of the author to engage intelligently with the practical issues that challenge the survival of our protagonist is annoying. The failure of the character to do so at key moments is not only deeply frustrating but erodes our tolerance for her as a character. And without our investment in Rebekah’s character, there’s nothing to make us want to read on to find the answer to the mystery.

LMAO Natalie's face when hugo disappeared 😂

I also found their journey on the island to be repetitive. That was probably my least favorite part. The sequel is one of my favorites though!! 💖 I enjoyed your video!

Please buy the 1st 3 books in the Pandava/Aru Shah series by Roshani Chokshi. 🙏🏽 Found new authors: Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, Kevin Van Whye, Anchee Min, Kika Hatzopoulou, Emily Tesh. I also highly recommend The Nightingale. World War 2 set in France is the theme of the novel.

I finally read Great Hunt in 2023. It was fine, but I am excited to head towards Dragon Reborn. 🐲

Well, at least you saved money on not buying those second books in the duologies? 😂😂

I had a couple of disappointing books written by Tahereh Mafi too. 🫤 I call most of Tahereh Mafi's books in the Shatter Me series as dystomance.

Hi 👋🏻 New subscriber!! I also have The Gilded One on my TBR. And I read The Song of Achilles and had to soft DNF it about halfway because I just was not feeling it. But then I picked it up a few months later, finished it and bawled at the end! It's so good!!

Where’s Percy???

yassss we hunt the flame 😍

I *think* that you can check adrenaline concentrations in the body, which would tip off if the person was scared or not before the heart attack. Not sure if I'm remembering wrong from my forensics class or not, as our lesson on this was ages ago.

Adorooooo

AMEI "the couple next door". Nunca mais me esqueci dele. Bem, pela tua review, nem sei se vou ouvir...

I read Caraval a few years ago, and I didn't like the book at all. Especially not the misogyny. The so called strong female main charterer just needed a man to help her with everything. It annoyed me beyond I don't know what. Also, very flat world building. No, not for me. I ended up not reading the rest of the series.

This edition is so pretty!!

Lindooo

I'm absolutely not going to count my physical TBR anytime soon. 🤣

Girl PEH-LEASE read Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Great review 🫶🏽🫶🏽

I absolutely enjoyed this memoir i read it in 3 hours britney spears is truly a remarkable woman to survive what she went through ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ooo Radium Girls is so good! Also those editions of She Who Became the Sun and the sequel are gorgeous 😍

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So pretty

I read Dead Silence last year and really liked it was a 4 ⭐ for me

That sucks that so many didn't live up to your expectations

My most disappointing read was ZA 8 Sorrow & Starlight 😢 I fell in love with the series but now I’m just angry lol And then there are some KU romances that I DNF’d and gave 1 🌟 to but that’s to be expected I think 🤔 🫶🏽

Sounds like some great reads. Best wishes for 2024.

I’m a Silver Nitrate STAN but I can understand a bit of disappointment bc it’s really not a horror novel. It has like some horror aesthetics but it’s not frightening

Totally jealous of those Tomb Raider comics lol Great video. It was a lot of hard work but the Bookish Advent Calendar videos were a lot of fun to watch 🎉🎉 🫶🏽

How fun. Hmmm been thinking about starting The Wheel of Time series as well 🤔 Got some great books for my birthday and Christmas which was nice 😊 🫶🏽

The music playing in the background 😂😂 Yes do the other one too please! 🫶🏽

So jealous of all the gorgeous editions 😍 🫶🏽

“January is the theme for One Murder One Room” 😂 Hell ya make it work 🫶🏽

I really enjoyed Paris memoir growing up i always knew that the Paris people saw was just an act im glad that she's using her voice to help other victims she's truly a survivor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

lol not bad. I’ve never done a TBR for the year and that’s cause I would fail miserably 😅 🫶🏽

My plan is to focus on series I’m in the middle of and finish them or catch up to latest book. I also want to tackle Way of Kings 😅 🫶🏽

I’m reading dead silence too it’s been on my TBR forever lol and of course I’m So (Not) Over You. Yay travel plans how exciting!! 🫶🏽

Ooo yay you are joining us for dead silence!? It's so fun already

Hugooooo it feels like EVERYONE was sick I'm December 😢

I wanted to feel better about how many unread books I own - now I feel better, haha! Love those painted spines.

I really enjoyed thus book i have read most of Margaret Owen books she's truly a gifted writer

Oooo hope you love We Free the Stars when you get to it!

I buy a lot of books secondhand, but normally I use the library. So glad Norway has good libraries.

Whoot whoot I love these videos. My favorite this year was probably Malice by John Gwynne. I read it at the beginning of the year and I still think about it and I need to continue the series asap 🫶🏽🫶🏽