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every @cleowade book feels like a love letter and a warm embrace, like she’s the friend who always knows just what to say or when to just hold space and let the feelings speak for themselves. this one found me at the perfect time, when i needed to be guided back into love, away from the weariness of worrying and wondering endlessly about things out of my control. it was a balm and a beautiful offering of poetry and light. ✨

thanks to @randomhouse for my #gifted copy — this was a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ fave for sure! #radfivestarfaves

if you’re a fan of @rudeassenneagram or want to be read to filth while also being helped (kind of like how really good therapy feels), this is the book for you. it had me like hahahahashutupyesthatsrealwowokaySTOPthathurtthankyou every page BUT IN THE BEST WAY, ya know? swipe for some pages about being an #enneagram1 — i can’t stop thinking about pursuing alignment over perfection. what a life-giving shift!!!

big fan of this one. (and i think many enneagram things are silly these days so that’s saying something.) it hits hard and is wholly honest and hella helpful and really good.

read it and grow.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️— amazing.

big thanks to @convergent_books of @randomhouse for sending a copy my way! #gifted

queen anne did it again. she brought her signature wit and warmth and wisdom packaged in a pretty punchy gem of a book that made me laugh and cry and highlight a bajillion passages and just feel so glad i’m alive at the same time she is. the way that woman wraps words around what it mean ms to be human is unlike any other!!! a GIFT. a spunky, sassy, stunning, sharp gift. i love her so much.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️— amazing. (as per usual.) and thanks to @bookshelftville for my signed copy! 🥰

april’s pick for our #alltheradreadsbookclubwas this haunting and all too real story of native girls going missing, by @nickmedinawrites, member of the tunica-biloxi tribe. it’s part mystery, part thriller/horror, part family drama, part crime novel, and i flew through it as the chapters jumped through time to piece together when and how anna’s sister went missing and how it all happened on the rez and in the hotel where they worked. 

i really appreciated the author’s note in this one, with his thoughts about the reality and tragedy of how so, so many native girls and women have gone and still go missing without enough (if any) care, coverage, police involvement, awareness, and ultimately, resolutions, reunifications, and, ideally, prevention of it happening in the first place. it’s devastating and such a display of racism and white privilege and colonialism and so many other sicknesses in our world. i’m glad stories like this exist to help make more people aware and to help turn the tides toward a safer, more just world where this doesn’t happen and all of our sisters and daughters are safe. (lord, let it be so.) 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for this one that will stay with me!

AITA for not loving this one?!?? (iykyk) 🫣

i’m bummed to say my streak of giving all of abby’s books five stars has come to an end with this one. it just didn’t hit for me, unfortunately, and as much as i love her and have thoroughly enjoyed her books in the past, this one felt one-dimensional in ways i couldn’t click with. i wanted more and was disappointed! truly, this was one of my most anticipated reads this year. 😔

with side characters in this one (aka the mothers of the main characters) having such deep and complex storylines, i wanted there to be more nuanced exploration of the effects of their lives/choices/the trauma they caused or for them to not be included in the story at all. what we got was just not enough to feel believably authentic but also too much to ignore. 

i really just want everyone to go to really good therapy and take a LONG TIME to heal!!! like, please!!! 🤍

oh, and if you’re a fan of easter eggs and characters from other books showing up, you’ll love this one — familiar faves from abby’s other books make appearances! (i’m ready for a whole new cast, personally.)

OKAY PHEW this is tough to say and i encourage you to read it yourself to form your own opinions because maybe it really is just me!

i’d love to hear: what are your thoughts on this one?! 👍🏼, 👎🏼, or in between?

🫶🏼 tw for a parent going to prison, foster care, parental neglect, mental health disorders, a house burning