By Taylor Jenkins Reid 355 pages, HardcoverFirst published March 5, 2019Mi Rating: 3 Stars My daughter really wanted to get me a book for my birthday. She knows I like to read, and it has also rubbed off on her. We were in a boutique bookstore in Hamilton, and my husband was “find something tell
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By Fiona Lucas Paperback: 432Rating: 3.5 stars Three years ago, the love of Anna’s life Spencer was tragically killed in an accident while going to the corner shop to get milk. For the last three years, Anna has really been existing. Everyone keeps telling her to move on, but how can she when she lost
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By Lynette Noni Book 1: The Prison HealerBook 2: The Gilded CageBook 3: The Blood Traitor Genre: Fantasy, Young AdultRating: 5 Stars One of my 2022 reading challenges was to read a best seller and a trilogy. After a quick google search, I came across the Prison Healer Trilogy on Dymocks books recommended list. I’ll
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By Cass Moriarty Paperback: 304 PagesGenre: Australian, Contemporary, Rating: 4 stars The story of an older man and a 10-year boy on a suburban street in the city of Brisbane. While we never learn their names, we do learn their stories. For the purpose of this review, I’m going to call the old man Robert
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By Kim Lock Paperback: 368 PagesAudiobook: 9hGenre: Australian, Contemporary, Travel, Women, Mental Health Rating: 3.75 stars If you are looking for a coming of age (or some might say mid-life crisis) book about a woman in her 30s. Then the other side of beautiful is for you. Mercy has not left her house for 2
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By Adam Silvera Paperback: 368 pagesGenre: Modern Sci-fiRating: 4 stars Now you may be thinking “Sci-fi? Really?”. It’s not set in outer space, but in a world very similar to our own, with Facebook and Instagram. In this world, however, there is a company called Death-Cast. If you receive a call from them, you only
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By Nicola Moriarty Audiobook: 9h 45mPaperback: 352 pagesMi Rating: ★★★★ (4) This book is told in multiple voices: Jill (the matriarch) Darren (son) Pete (son) Tony (son) Mimi (Tony’s wife) Callie (Tony’s 16-year-old daughter) Andrea (Pete’s wife) Other characters in the book are: Tara (Mimi’s & Tony’s 10 year old daughter) Twins Elliot & James
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By Sara Desai Book: 352 pagesMi Rating: ★★★ (3.75) I don’t remember the last rom-com (romantic comedy) book I read. It was most likely something by Sophie Kinsella. If you are a fan of Sophie’s work, diversity of say Kevin Kwan’s “Crazy Rich Asians”, then this is the book for you. Daisy is an American
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By Leigh Bardugo Audiobook: 15h 4mMi Rating: ★★ (2) Imagine an Ocean’s 11, Steampunk team that lived in Holland during the 1890’s Bohemian period. That is the best visual guide I can give you on the setting of Six of Crows. Kaz (the leader of the pack), is given a lucrative but dangerous heist. If
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By A. Meredith Walters Ebook: 321 pagesMi Rating: ★★★★ (4) One day soon tells is a dual timeline book. Telling the lives of Imogen (Imi) and Yoss (named after the main character of Joseph Hellers book Catch 22). It begins in the present day, where Imogen is given a new case at the hospital. A
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