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Lament at Loon Landing (Secrets and Scrabble, #6)

Josh Lanyon

Start date: April 4, 2023

Finish date: April 30, 2023

Discussion: Book of the Month Club

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Apr 02, 2023 Josh added it · (Review from the author)

Shelves: my-own-work

Remind me not to write books out of sequence again. :-P

But it's done, I'm happy with it, and on to the 8th and... Probably not final book. I love writing this series so much: the characters, the village, the pirates...

It's one of my only series I can see running for quite a while longer. But one book at a time.

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Apr 09, 2023 Ami rated it liked it

Shelves: mm-mystery-suspense-thriller, mm-romance-or-erotica

2.75 stars rounded up

Weird reading this because book #7 came out first (and in that book, (view spoiler)). The mystery was okay, the relationship, well ((view spoiler). Anyway, this one was MERELY okay for me. ...more

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Apr 08, 2023 Erika rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, mine-kindle, ebook

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to read this for an honest review.

These are so fun. I love Ellery and Watson and Jack (even when he’s being a turd.) If I have one gripe, it’s that there’s so much build up, and then when Ellery and Jack solve their cases, the resulting wrap up is so quick.

This one gets down to the action right away with Dylan and the festival trying to convince (bribe?) Ellery to help them figure out if the threats to Lara, the music festival headliner, are ...more

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Apr 30, 2023 Becky rated it liked it

Shelves: m-m, mystery, bought-2023, challenge-reads-2023, read-in-2023

This wasn't my favorite JL title. It was all right. The way the mysteries were resolved was a bit anticlimactic, especially the long running mystery of the poison pen letters. There were more than the usual missing word/typo type errors, although to be fair, it was still way better than most of what I find on KU. The relationship bits between Jack and Ellery felt like churning over tired ground we'd already covered before.

I see a lot of "Jack is a jerk" comments in other reviews, and yeah. I get ...more

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