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13 reviews

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill

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4.0

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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4.5

Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey

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4.0

The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 34%.
Didn't grip me as well as it did in the first few chapters. Things slowed to a weird halt and I found myself slogging through it
Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 13%.
Got tired of lack of quotation marks and the world building wasn't doing it for me
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 2%.
Feels weird to read this book knowing it was the imagination of some poor woman desperately trauma bonded to her psychologist and trying to please them
Slash Them All by Antoine Maillard

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 3%.
Main character gets visual evaluations by male characters on par with Patrick Bateman.
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

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hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

2.0

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The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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