This book will tear your heart out and stomp on it. The author captures the experience of motherhood perfectly. Relevant today because of its depiction of historical events and its representation of the way people treat outsiders.

I liked this one. I had read Throne of the Fallen before starting this series and I really enjoyed it so I figured why not go back and try this one,

Fantastic! One of my new favorite books! I love that the chapters alternate between olive and Helen as well as Hattie’s descendants!

I liked how the M person was the cat and she helped them out.

It was a really good volume but I didn’t like how Nagato, Konan, and Tamiko just immediately thought morays was great, like he was an enemy shinobi, why do you just immediately think he’s great

BSD is one of my favorite series and every volume I read builds so much for the plot, characters, and relationships. The new settings brought to ex-guild and ex-port mafia members was one of the highlights.

The Westing game is a funny, mysterious, and crazy book. Full of plot twists, this book is a great short book for free time. I highly suggest this for mystery lovers.

Ellie disappears from a party one night--vanished without any solid leads, and gone for two years. Until, suddenly, she reappears on a hiking trail. She's clearly traumatized, and thin, but without any signs of struggle. Did she escape? Was she let go? Detective Chelsey Calhoun struggles to put the pieces together, determined to save any girls she can--in part driven by the death of her sister fifteen years ago. I won't give anything away here, but the book is tightly-wound and suspenseful, and by the time I was 2/3 of the way through there was not a chance I'd put the book down until it was finished. Gripping, interesting, and entertaining book.

I think it was only an okay book, it wasn’t my favorite out of the whole series. I feel like the plot was slow and not much really happened compared to her other books.

I read this as part of an all school summer read. The two author voices create an authentic experience providing two perspectives. I appreciated the back and forth of two young people sharing vulnerabilities coming from different backgrounds, using a forgotten medium that allows for a mindfulness that I think young people could benefit from. I did think the novel attempted a lot with all the issues it covered.