Books You’re on the Fence About - 2023 Showing 101-150 of 1,240

[Dorie - Cats&Books :)]

3* for this one, mostly for the premise, did not like the execution


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[Phrynne]

This was okay but not special.
My review of A Murder Like No Author by Amy Lillard

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[Brenda]

My review for Her Doctor Prince by Fiona McArthur

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[Phrynne]

My review of How to Book a Murder by Cynthia Kuhn

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[PamG]

I finished an entertaining, but somewhat predictable cozy mystery.
Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab.

My short 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Carol]

Review for Creature - Hunter Shea

My Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I liked the book...but it was almost too many stories going on at one time. I gave it 3.5 stars because it wasn't a total disappointment and will probably appeal to those that like horror stories.

[MarilynW]

No Land to Light On Yara Zgheib

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[Faith]

My review of All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody

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[Phrynne]

My review of Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding by Rhys Bowen
Not one of the best in the series.

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[Liz]

I just finished The Magnificent Lives of Majorie Post

Interesting story but I just didn’t care for the woman. My three star review:
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[Carol]

Review for [Grave Sight] - Charlaine Harris

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

it wasn't a bad book...just too tame. I like my mysteries to have a bit more meat to them.

[Brenda]

My review for Brimstone by Russel Hutchings

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[Carol]

Review for
Darling Rose Gold - Stephanie Wrobel

Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Faith]

My review of The American by Henry James

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[Faith]

My review of Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

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[Carrie]

Bait and Witch (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries #1)
by Angela M. Sanders
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...



Seven-Year Witch (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries #2)
by Angela M. Sanders
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...



Nanny Dearest
by Flora Collins
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Carrie]

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
by Garth Nix
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His Loving Wife
by Miranda Smith
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Brenda]

My review for Scone with the Wind by L.E. Gordon

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[Robin]

This weekend I finished listening to Just One Night by Carly Phillips.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Carol]

Review for Better Off Dead] - Lee Child & Andrew Grant - (Arizona)
Jack Reacher series Book #26


Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Liz]

The Selfless Act of Breathing was beautifully written but still fell flat for me. My review:
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[Carrie]

Opium and Absinthe
by Lydia Kang
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The Newlyweds
by Arianne Richmonde
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[Carol]

Review For Cup of Joe - Annabeth Albert
Bold Brew series Book #1

Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kat]

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[Brenda]

My review for How to Book a Murder by Cynthia Kuhn

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[PamG]

I finished Calling of Ancestors: Finding Forgotten Secrets in My DNA by Kennerly Clay.

My 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Liz]

We Are All the Same in the Dark

My three star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Dorie - Cats&Books :)]

Audiobook from NetGalley, outlier 3*

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[PamG]

I finished a paranormal romance short story: Undenied by Sara Humphreys.

My 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Phrynne]

My review of The Dead Cry Justice by Rosemary Simpson

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[MarilynW]

Last Dance on Starlight Pier Sarah Bird

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[PamG]

I finished a Christmas short story: Christmas Witch by Willow Monroe.

My 2.5 star review rounded up to 3 stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Carrie]

Meet Isabel Puddles
by M.V. Byrne
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...



Isabel Puddles Investigates
by M.V. Byrne
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Carrie]

The Girl in the Missing Poster
by Barbara Copperthwaite
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[Phrynne]

My review of Better off Dead by Lee Child

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[PamG]

I won a graphic novel in a Goodreads Giveaway that I finished yesterday. Devil's Triangle: The Complete Graphic Novel by Brian C. Hailes and Blake Casselman.

My 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PamG]

During the last week of the year, I read short stories, novellas, and a graphic novel. My last novella of the year: Fangs & Fairy Dust (Paranormal Cozy Mystery Novella Prequel) by Melissa Monroe and Kyla Colby.

My 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Carrie]

Murder Makes Scents (Nantucket Candle Maker Mystery #2)
by Christin Brecher
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The Deep
by Alma Katsu
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[Carol]

Ghostly Paws - Leighann Dobbs - (New Hampshire)
Mystic Notch series Book #1

Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Carrie]

Death in a Budapest Butterfly (A Hungarian Tea House Mystery #1)
by Julia Buckley
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...



Summertime Guests
by Wendy Francis
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[Book Concierge]

The Face of Deception – Iris Johansen – 2**
First in a series starring Eve Duncan, a forensic sculptor, whose job it is to create a likeness based on skulls retrieved from crime scenes. There is plenty of action as Eve moves from crisis to disaster to being chased and having her mother in danger. Political intrigue and power-hungry people with evil intentions further muddy the waters. Then Johansen throws in a romantic tension, with a push/pull attraction between billionaire John Logan and Eve that just didn’t ring true for me. It held my attention and kept me reading – but I’ve already forgotten it.
My full review HERE

[MarilynW]

Down a Dark Road Linda Castillo

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[Carrie]

The Inn on Sweetbriar Lane: Includes a Bonus Novella (Blue Cedar Falls Book 1)
by Jeannie Chin
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Shadow City: A Novel (City of Steel and Diamond Book 2)
by Francesca Flores
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The Ex-Husband
by Karen Hamilton
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Carrie]

Murder at Morrington Hall (A Stella and Lyndy Mystery #1)
by Clara McKenna
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[Faith]

My review of A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

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[Brenda]

My review for Imagine: A Wild Civilization by Charlie Batt

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[Carol]

Murder in the Garden] - Faith Martin - (England)
DI Hillary Greene series Book #9
3★

Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[MarilynW]

The People Next Door Keri Beevis

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Very creepy

[Dorie - Cats&Books :)]

This one didn't work for me

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[Book Concierge]

Jack Maggs – Peter Carey – 3***
I had heard that this was inspired by Dickens’ Great Expectations . I can see similarities, though the focus here is not on Pip but on Magwitch. I did get quite caught up in Jack Maggs’s story and wondered a few times how Carey was going to wrap this up. The plot is definitely convoluted in places, with many twists and turns, and I did not really appreciate the Tobias Oates subplot. Carey’s writing is very atmospheric, and the city of London is explored in some detail, especially the impoverished slums and criminal underbelly.
My full review HERE