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Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
Did not finish book. Stopped at 4%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 4%.
Already lost in less than twenty pages. No thanks.
The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie
The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie
Release Date: April 2, 2024
QUICK SUMMARY
Sarah Greene and her friends have a knack for Escape Rooms in town. But her struggling parents receive a foreclose notice leaving Sarah with the very real possibility of leaving her friends when he family will be forced to live with her grandparents until they're back on their feet.
Feeling helpless, Sarahs friend mentions a treasure rumoured to be in the walls of an abandoned fun house that was never opened.
Sarah and her friends decide this is the only way to save Sarahs family from being forced to move. The quickly realize they're in the toughest Escape Room ever.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Thank you @NetGalley & SOURCEBOOKS Kids for this copy of #TheMysteryOfLockedRooms by @LindsayCurrie.
This book is now in my top three faves by Lindsay, it was so much fun even though I felt my age with some of the comments from these kids.... SOMEONE NAMED INDIANA JONES?!
This book is filled with puzzles and mysteries and some tough topics done in a way young people can understand. I love the friendships of these three kids, they're real and they're so relatable to kids that age.
I also just found out today, there will be a book two to this series so even better!
4.75
Beware of wrong choices; for those you shall pay. Be wise and choose carefully; strategy saves the day.
The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie
Release Date: April 2, 2024
QUICK SUMMARY
Sarah Greene and her friends have a knack for Escape Rooms in town. But her struggling parents receive a foreclose notice leaving Sarah with the very real possibility of leaving her friends when he family will be forced to live with her grandparents until they're back on their feet.
Feeling helpless, Sarahs friend mentions a treasure rumoured to be in the walls of an abandoned fun house that was never opened.
Sarah and her friends decide this is the only way to save Sarahs family from being forced to move. The quickly realize they're in the toughest Escape Room ever.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Thank you @NetGalley & SOURCEBOOKS Kids for this copy of #TheMysteryOfLockedRooms by @LindsayCurrie.
This book is now in my top three faves by Lindsay, it was so much fun even though I felt my age with some of the comments from these kids.... SOMEONE NAMED INDIANA JONES?!
This book is filled with puzzles and mysteries and some tough topics done in a way young people can understand. I love the friendships of these three kids, they're real and they're so relatable to kids that age.
I also just found out today, there will be a book two to this series so even better!
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
2.25
“History always tends to fall prey to revisionists”
Devil’s Creek by Todd Keisling
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
In the 1980s a church burnt to the ground right after mass deaths leaving six children survivors.
Now thirty years later, this is all but forgotten until one of the six come back to town after their grandmothers death.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
This book started out pulling me right in and then quickly lost me with its million side quests.
The book defiantly needed a good round of editing, because the story is there and it would have been a good story if not for so much going on.
By the end of the book I didn’t care what happened because I was lost somewhere way back.
Devil’s Creek by Todd Keisling
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
In the 1980s a church burnt to the ground right after mass deaths leaving six children survivors.
Now thirty years later, this is all but forgotten until one of the six come back to town after their grandmothers death.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
This book started out pulling me right in and then quickly lost me with its million side quests.
The book defiantly needed a good round of editing, because the story is there and it would have been a good story if not for so much going on.
By the end of the book I didn’t care what happened because I was lost somewhere way back.
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
3.0
I just need to stop trying to pretend that I am going to enjoy lit fic.
I mean this is beautifully written and hits the feels but its just not my vibe.
I mean this is beautifully written and hits the feels but its just not my vibe.
Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
QUICK SUMMARY
It's been over a decade since the lights went out that ended life as they knew it. With the resources dwindling in their little piece of land, the community must make the hard decision to leave the land and make the long way back to their homeland.
FINAL THOUGHTS
I had this book preordered, and to be honest, I was scared to read it because of how much I LOVED Moon of the Crusted Snow. I was scared I would be let down by this sequel. Oh was I wrong.
I LOVED this book, for many of the same and different reasons as the first. Waub has a way with storytelling that I felt it in my bones. What an amazing sequel to an amazing first book.
5.0
They sent us there to disappear. They didn't want us to survive on that land. They wanted us to die.
Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
QUICK SUMMARY
It's been over a decade since the lights went out that ended life as they knew it. With the resources dwindling in their little piece of land, the community must make the hard decision to leave the land and make the long way back to their homeland.
FINAL THOUGHTS
I had this book preordered, and to be honest, I was scared to read it because of how much I LOVED Moon of the Crusted Snow. I was scared I would be let down by this sequel. Oh was I wrong.
I LOVED this book, for many of the same and different reasons as the first. Waub has a way with storytelling that I felt it in my bones. What an amazing sequel to an amazing first book.
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
4.5
“The past had taken enough from her already – she would not let it have her adult years too.”
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Pregnant and widowed weeks after her wedding, Elsie travels to the home her late husband and her had planned to share. Now she’s surrounded by resentful servants and villagers who fear the house.
Elsie has no one but her later husbands cousin for company, until one day of exploring sets them down a path of destruction.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
@curiously.katt does it again. This book was my fave of February, the creep factor was high, the story was enthralling. Told in two separate timelines, you don’t know what to believe in this Victorian Gothic Novel, and I think Laura Purcell is a new fave author for me.
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Pregnant and widowed weeks after her wedding, Elsie travels to the home her late husband and her had planned to share. Now she’s surrounded by resentful servants and villagers who fear the house.
Elsie has no one but her later husbands cousin for company, until one day of exploring sets them down a path of destruction.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
@curiously.katt does it again. This book was my fave of February, the creep factor was high, the story was enthralling. Told in two separate timelines, you don’t know what to believe in this Victorian Gothic Novel, and I think Laura Purcell is a new fave author for me.
Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie
4.0
“The MLM world is a bizarre land where incentives can range from the opportunity to buy your own ticket to a conference to earning a new rank based solely on products you’ve purchased that now sit in your garage.”
Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans.
By Jane Marie
Release Date: March 12, 2024
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Selling The Dream gives you in depth research and reporting of the MLMs that built the pyramids today.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
This was fun and a great book to trigger of MLM friends. Although if you’re familiar with the podcast some of this information is already in there just not as in depth as the book went.
I really enjoyed learning the history of MLMs, you don’t really think of it but my generation has been surrounded by them our entire lives, even if you or your family have never bought into them you know the names.
I think this is a good starting point for people who want to learn more about MLMs and why they’re not good. This book lays the ground work.
Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans.
By Jane Marie
Release Date: March 12, 2024
QUICK SUMMARY 🖊️
Selling The Dream gives you in depth research and reporting of the MLMs that built the pyramids today.
FINAL THOUGHTS 💭
This was fun and a great book to trigger of MLM friends. Although if you’re familiar with the podcast some of this information is already in there just not as in depth as the book went.
I really enjoyed learning the history of MLMs, you don’t really think of it but my generation has been surrounded by them our entire lives, even if you or your family have never bought into them you know the names.
I think this is a good starting point for people who want to learn more about MLMs and why they’re not good. This book lays the ground work.