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cill2019

cill2019

Caffeine Fiend said:
The Chestnut Spring books are 99p each today on kindle.

They are so good, if you like romance genre anyway. The first one was the worst imo but various diff tropes with cowboys 🤠 yeehaa.
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Do they have a good story or is it purely spice? 🤣 I’m still conflicted if I’m a spicy girl despite loving Butcher and Blackbird 🤣🤣
 
LydiaDeetzHat

LydiaDeetzHat

Lord help me The Ice House is so boring i had to tandem it with a fast paced modern book about NYC to palete cleanse so I don't end up in a reading slump
 
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Caffeine Fiend

Caffeine Fiend

cill2019 said:
Do they have a good story or is it purely spice? 🤣 I’m still conflicted if I’m a spicy girl despite loving Butcher and Blackbird 🤣🤣
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No they all have storylines! Out of maybe 35 chapters there are maybe max 7 with spicy scenes per book?

Theyre cute reads though, not like B&B.
 
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wishiniwasskinny

inksmear said:
I finished Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I adored it. 5 out of 5. Possibly my favourite book of the year so far (although perhaps that is shared between that and Demon Copperhead so far this year). What a wonderful book!
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These are both very high up on my anticipated TBR lists!
 
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HoGi

HoGi

My preorder copy of John Marrs The Fanily Experiment arrived early!

Devoured it in a day.

Same format as his other speculative thrillers, multiple POV, news articles interspersed between chapters etc. It was quite as edge of your seat as some of the others but still 5*

Edited because phone played up and pressed post too soon 😪
 
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Caffeine Fiend

Caffeine Fiend

I have once again not cancelled my audible sub and have 5 credits. I really need to cancel it but I dont know what would be good to use the credits on.

I think Im definitely going to get Listen For The Lie. I am hopeful it has 'none of this is true' vibes in regards to the narration/performance.

Ive already listened to Butcher and Blackbird on audio and used a previous credit for that. However there are some accusations flying around about Joe Arden and I feel so icky about it now. So nothing he narrates please.
 
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tp1986

I've just finished the short story collection by Naomi Wood' 'This is why we can't have nice things' - I saw someone on here say they had it and nabbed it from the library the other day. Mixed feelings on it. Enjoyed the short story format with motherhood as the theme (albeit that most stories were focused on pregnancy or young children - would have been nice to see this age range extended)

The writing was sharp/witty and made me wince in places! Didn't think the BBC competition winning short story was the best in the collection but I'm not sure literary fiction is my preferred genre so maybe I'm not the best judge.

One thing though a personal preference... I HATE when stories end with no resolution - all of them were more of a snapshot if that makes sense. I'd give it a 4* overall, very readable.
 
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Katykatykaty

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HoGi said:
My preorder copy of John Marrs The Fanily Experiment arrived early!

Devoured it in a day.

Same format as his other speculative thrillers, multiple POV, news articles interspersed between chapters etc. It was quite as edge of your seat as some of the others but still 5*

Edited because phone played up and pressed post too soon 😪
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Ooh I was already excited but now I’m even more so! I love his dystopian stuff.

I just finished One by Eve Smith which has a similar starting point to The Family Experiment (over population, economic crisis etc) but it was pants. Eve Smith just can’t create worlds like John Marrs can. The idea of her book was great but I found I was just skimming it to get it over with. I don’t know why I keep returning to her books as I’ve never rated one higher than a 3 which is my code for “I liked the idea and really wanted it to be better but it wasn’t so terrible that I had to give up”.
 
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Libbylulu

Libbylulu

Caffeine Fiend said:
I have once again not cancelled my audible sub and have 5 credits. I really need to cancel it but I dont know what would be good to use the credits on.

I think Im definitely going to get Listen For The Lie. I am hopeful it has 'none of this is true' vibes in regards to the narration/performance.

Ive already listened to Butcher and Blackbird on audio and used a previous credit for that. However there are some accusations flying around about Joe Arden and I feel so icky about it now. So nothing he narrates please.
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Before My Actual Heart Breaks was an excellent audible
 
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mindlessness

@Caffeine Fiend are you at all into radio plays or sci-fi? I have a slightly weird recommendation. I believe Audible has the original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy BBC radio plays. They’re so good. I’m not a big audiobook person (or actually much into sci-fi!) but Hitchhikers is a real favourite.
 
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Caffeine Fiend

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mindlessness said:
@Caffeine Fiend are you at all into radio plays or sci-fi? I have a slightly weird recommendation. I believe Audible has the original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy BBC radio plays. They’re so good. I’m not a big audiobook person (or actually much into sci-fi!) but Hitchhikers is a real favourite.
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Sadly not to sci fi :( its the one genre I just cant do or horror I guess. I dont like it on TV / Film either. Mr CF loves all of that sort of stuff too 🙊
 
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HoGi

HoGi

Katykatykaty said:
Ooh I was already excited but now I’m even more so! I love his dystopian stuff.

I just finished One by Eve Smith which has a similar starting point to The Family Experiment (over population, economic crisis etc) but it was pants. Eve Smith just can’t create worlds like John Marrs can. The idea of her book was great but I found I was just skimming it to get it over with. I don’t know why I keep returning to her books as I’ve never rated one higher than a 3 which is my code for “I liked the idea and really wanted it to be better but it wasn’t so terrible that I had to give up”.
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I love how JM drops little easter eggs/links to his other books.

I think it also helps that he doesn't take things too far in terms of dystopia. The marriage act with devices that listen and report back, we already have alexas and phones that listen. The meta verse already exists. I love that there is a little moral undertone to his stories too.
 
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Honeystar

Has anyone read The List? I finished it this weekend and it wasn’t what I expected at all. I struggle with books that are “too current” and packed full of social media and current culture references (this even had a name check for Joe and the Juice) but equally it was all relevant to the story. I enjoyed it though and gave it a solid 4 stars
 
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ToxicPony

I've just finished The First To Die At The End and I am a MESS! I thought the first one was good but this...I'm just here sobbing my eyes out.
 
Gem_woody

Gem_woody

I'm on holiday at the moment and yesterday I started reading The Last One At The Party.. Wow its so good!! I can't put it down and I've nearly finished it already. Think I might go for The Stranding next
 
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inksmear

wishiniwasskinny said:
These are both very high up on my anticipated TBR lists!
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Honeystar said:
Has anyone read The List? I finished it this weekend and it wasn’t what I expected at all. I struggle with books that are “too current” and packed full of social media and current culture references (this even had a name check for Joe and the Juice) but equally it was all relevant to the story. I enjoyed it though and gave it a solid 4 stars
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I’m hoping to start this book this evening!
 
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Libbylulu

Libbylulu

Honeystar said:
Has anyone read The List? I finished it this weekend and it wasn’t what I expected at all. I struggle with books that are “too current” and packed full of social media and current culture references (this even had a name check for Joe and the Juice) but equally it was all relevant to the story. I enjoyed it though and gave it a solid 4 stars
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Who is the author
 
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