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My most recent is Done and Dusted!

Darling Venom by Parker S. Huntington ripped my heart out.

The Midnight Library.

Laws of love and logic or A Good Anima

The Last Words Series by Shari J. Ryan.

Mayluna by Kelley McNeil made me an absolute emotional mess, but also was the best book I’ve ever read!

After the Fire by Will Hill

Drinker of Ink by Shannon Castleton … if you read it and don’t love it with all your heart, come back here and tell me. I will Venmo you the cost of the book.

I've got three:
Right of Answer by Hilary Llewellyn
Once Was Willem by Mike Carey
The Book of I by David Greig

Kim (binge reading to avoid reality and the fall of US democracy) wrote: "Drinker of Ink by Shannon Castleton … if you read it and don’t love it with all your heart, come back here and tell me. I will Venmo you the cost of the book."

Oh, that's making a strong case. *runs to check it out*

JayC wrote: "The Midnight Library."

I have read it. If it's about books, I usually pounce. lol

Hunger Games. Obviously. It’s a classic

I just finished the Brit and it’s was 5 stars … no notes!!

Lydia Michaels “The Order of the Vampires”; anything by Sierra Simone! Sherilee Gray “The Thornheart Trials”; Katie Delahanty “Waiting For a Girl Like You”; absolutely anything written by JA HUSS is next level perfection too!

Stephanie Garber's Alchemy of Secrets was great!

Fredrick Backman….👍🏻

i recently read The art of feeling by laura tims. Its a story about a girl who had an accident and constantly has pain in her legs and a boy who cannot feel pain.

Here's an excerpt:

Over half of all sufferers die before the age of three. The rest often do not make it past twenty-five years. . . .
 . . . can’t sense heat or cold, so heat stroke and febrile seizures are common . . .

Most people with CIPA have some form of mild mental problems, but not all. . . .
 . . . statistically the most fatal kind of the seven types of hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy . . .

Six-year-old Eliot Rowe is one of about a hundred people worldwide affected by a rare genetic disorder that prevents him from feeling pain.

“Infections, injuries . . . we never know something’s wrong unless it’s obvious from the outside,” said his mother. “He broke his elbow and we didn’t realize for two days. Once he almost chewed off his tongue. Not to mention all the tests. . . . It’s beyond exhausting.”

As a baby, he rarely cried. Researchers have studied him and are attempting to develop more effective painkillers via gene sequencing.

“It’s fascinating because we get to observe the relationship between physical and emotional pain,” noted a psychologist who has been working with the family. “Will his emotional development be stunted?”
Eliot’s older brother, sixteen, offered a counterpoint: “When our dog got run over, he cried for a week.”

“A normal kid who touches a hot stove once will never do it again,” continued his mother. “Eliot doesn’t understand what the problem is. He looks at us like we’re crazy when we tell him no.”
Children with the condition often experience repeated injury. Pain serves an important evolutionary purpose: it teaches avoidance.

“What do you think when you see someone in pain?” we asked Eliot. He shrugged and said, “Ow.”
“What is ow?”
After seemingly thinking about it, he couldn’t answer us.

Georgia wrote: "Fredrick Backman….👍🏻"

I read Beartown and was so traumatized that he scared me off his other books. LOL Because he's so good and I felt everything. But I was in a pretty bad headspace at the time so maybe I'll try again.

Into the Blue by Emma Brodie

not a fiction book but: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
by Cory Doctorow