Laura Drake

Writing this with tears in my eyes. A hard-hitting subject, handled beautifully. The writing is excellent, the characters SO real. Heartwarming and wise...this book will stay with me a long time.

I love Hammer's books, and this was no exception. Great set up, clever situation, but mostly, I love her voice...her characters are happy, sad, guilty and beautiful - just like real life.

Sigh.

It was good. Kept me engaged, and the stories were interesting.
But it was billed as a comp to Station Eleven, and it was good, but not as good.

I love Picoult. Her writing is as sparkling as ever - no one is better. This subject is great.
But it's like she wrote all the scenes, threw them up in the air, and put them in the book wherever they fell. It made the book confusing and hard to follow. It didn't need to be - it was great without that. Almost abandoned, but her fantastic writing held me captive, and I'm glad I finished it. But honestly, Jodi, just write the book. Playing games with the reader doesn't help.

I love the characters and the adventure (the school!) but this one wandered far afield, and I thought we'd never get back to the original story. I like adding new elements, but this one went overboard. He's now going places that are too numerous to remember. We don't need to know every step to a warrior's movement. That whole section could have been summed up in two pages.

Don't get me wrong, I like the story, but it rambled waaaaay to much.

Will I get the third book in the series? Haven't decided. There are too many good books to spend a thousand pages of waiting for the good stuff.

I started this book at 10 am and put it down for the first time when I read the last word at 7 pm. Wow. What a genre-bender! Twists and turns I didn't see coming kept me turning pages - that the writing was wonderful. I felt like I traveled with the flawed characters on that roller coaster. The ending will stay with me a long time, wondering what I would have done.

Highly recommend it!

Copy given by the publisher for an honest review. This is that.

I SO looked forward to this! I was even okay with spotlighting the villain of the Hunger Games Series.
But. The character wasn't likeable, and didn't change from the beginning to the end. He was entitled, superior and morally questionable at the beginning, progressing to a more mature, morally bankrupt person at the end.

Why would I want to read about that? There's enough depressing things on the news to shake my faith in humankind, thanks.

I recommend this book to every woman who's ever worked in business. You're going to cheer for the women who learn to stand up and stand together against abuse and discrimination in the workplace (and outside it).

Cameron's debut is a keeper. I wish for the day that a young woman will ask her mother, ‘This stuff didn't really happen to women of your generation, did it?' And the mother can truthfully say, ‘Of course not, dear. It's fiction.'

I'm torn in my opinion about this one.

It was good in that it kept my attention, and it was scary.

But it had every horror trope known to man. It rained, almost every single scene. They're scared in the dark, most scenes. There was very little break from the harrowing (couldn't resist), so the darkness and scary stuff gets less scary, in repetition.

Would have been more understandable if this was written a long time ago, but it wasn't.

BUT, that said, I finished it, and was glad I read it.

See? Torn.

Tightly written, a great one

I love courtroom novels and police procedural. But so much out there is weak.this one had more twists than a coiled rattlesnake.

Loved it. Going to get his others...

No spoilers here. A page turner - I read it in two days. But the ending was .... oddly unsatisfactory. A few loose ends were never tied up, so the ending seemed rushed.

The author clearly has skill. Except for the ending, it was good.

Don't start unless you have a whole day to read, because you won't put it down. Serious Wow. The tension had me squirming in my chair, and my husband got a can of chili for dinner last night, and it's all this author's fault. Fantastic edge-of-your-seat stuff here. Highly recommend.

Love Everhart's books. Tough to read sometimes, but so real. I loved the complexity of the main character - I read in the acknowledgements that she hadn't meant to write about eating disorders, but it so fit the character, and the book.

Highly recommend.

I know this will be the best book I read all year

If you liked, Where the Crawdads Sing, you will cherish this one. You will come to know the prairie of Wyoming, and the people who live with it. I'm sad to leave them, but they will stay with me.

Highly recommend.

I just finished Stay. I've read probably 10 CRH books, but I think this is my favorite. She has a way of stating the truth, then digging so deep into that truth that she gets to that place in your head where you live with that truth. And she says the words you knew, but have never put into words. The stuff that you have a hard time admitting, to yourself, much less other people.

And you know what? Her doing that gives you validation. As if truth meets truth, and for a few hours, you don't feel so alone.

I can't give a higher accolade than that.

A strong, thoughtful book, that will make you question your own beliefs, not only about art, but about yourself, as a woman.

A tightly plotted mystery, great characters, and laugh-out-loud writing. Love Coben.

A sparkling debut. I'm not a crier, and I just went through 2 napkins and a half roll of toilet paper (in the very best way).

It's about work and old and new love and screw ups and teenagers and friendships and pain and grief and memories . . . life. It's about life. And it's so bittersweet-just like the real thing.

Best book I've read all year, I kid you not.

The twists and turns kept me reading. I can't imagine the horror I'd feel in this situation, but I feel I understand more for reading it. I recommend this book!

Her best yet. Seriously awesome. This book will be the John Denver of Alaska - people will put it on their bucket list, because she describes it so amazingly well. The audio version was mesmerizing.

I may be in the minority, but I think her books would be stronger, 1/3 shorter. Tons of repetition. That said, I loved it.

It was interesting, finding out Shirley's mind, through her short stories. But I expected horror, or at least creepy, and almost none were.

No spoilers - Suffice it to say that I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! Many uncomfortable places - this is not for the faint-hearted.

Some plot holes, but I really enjoyed it!

Beautifully fascinating

A richly written, fascinating novel. It captured my imagination and pulled me in until I finished it. So different, in a cluttered market. I'll be thinking about this one for days.

Excellent new author. I really loved the heroine, not to mention her tiger! The emotions were true, the story fast-paced. Can't wait for the next book in the series!

When you're blind, with a amazingly terrifying ‘gift', you have to trust someone. But who?
Loreena's been sheltered by her pastor uncle. But when her brother returns, how can she turn her back on the closest person to her? Even if he's ‘gone astray'.

This wonderful, real, fully rounded character makes me wonder what I'd do, faced with both a blessing and a curse, wrapped up in one package.

Wow. Great book. It'll really make you think