📚 “Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them.”

👍A historical fiction set in France during the plague. It gave me Pillars of the Earth mixed with The Decameron vibes. I enjoyed following the MC’s on their journey and the character development. There were some consequences and some absolutely bonkers depictions of demons and Hell. The ending had some nice symmetry.

👎 The final boss fight was slightly anti climactic. I feel like after such a long journey, I needed more.
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📚 “I sing for her and think wildly that I would compose symphonies if only for her to speak to me.”

👍 What a great ending to the series! I binged this in a day, I was addicted! I loved finally getting to know Joel and Key better and Dusty was a dynamic FMC. Of course, I’m happy we got to see Becks x James and Dave x Izzy some more too 💜 I think I hated Simon from book two more than Logan, but at least Logan got the punch in the face I wanted to give Simon LOL

*Thank you to the author for gifting me an eARC in exchange for an honest review*
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👍 A very rich narrative. I would say this was more a Romantasy than a historical fiction. Taking that into account, the ending made more sense compared to what happened historically. I did appreciate the explanation the author gave at the end too.

👎The book could’ve been a little shorter imo.
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📚 “People disappear all the time in Germany. We are almost as famous for that as we are for strudel.”

👍The audio was utterly gripping to me. I think WWII is a common setting in historical fiction but this book focusing on the Olympics and the lead up was refreshing.

👎The ending was kind of weird. I can’t say much without spoilers but it just kinda lingered 🤷‍♀️
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Another book edge painting foray! This one was a lot of fun, but I did learn that it is possible for the gouache to be too thick. Some of it flaked off when I went to go break part the pages and trying to touch it up was NOT fun 😂
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📚 “All may be fair in love and war, but this is ornithology.”

👍 This author is an insta-buy-and-read for me. Holton must love gag anime because that’s how this book reads; I’m just so smitten with all her works!

I absolutely adored this story, and the travels of Beth and Devon were so precious. It was so pure and yet purely Victorian. But now I wonder if Gabriel survived his cousin’s antics!

Meticulous and ridiculous and hilarious, just please: READ THIS BOOK.
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👍This was a super twisty thriller. The formatting counting down to the FMC birthday increased my anxiety SO MUCH. Every time something bad happened, I kept wondering how things could get worse and they did 😂 The book had a classic Sarah Pinborough twist (if you have read Behind Her Eyes or seen the Netflix show then you know what I’m talking about)
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The epilogue tied this book to that book and I am HERE for it!
Off to go see if there’s other books that feature them!
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👍 SUPER brutal cat and mouse thriller involving a serial killer and a medical examiner. I loved the reveal at about 70%. I appreciated the Hannibal references bc this book made me think of Silence of the Lambs 😂 The book was pretty short, (on audio it was only about six hours) so I finished in a day.
PSA- this ends on a cliffhanger!

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