Katie

I really enjoy this series and the mix of wildlife research and mystery/ suspense. This book seemed a little thin, with a lot of the text being used to catch the reader up on past events and to catch other characters in the book up on current events. But I'll still keep reading!

This was important, horrific, disturbing, sad, and enraging. We all should be aware of what our country is doing. Even if you think you know how bad ICE is, you'll learn worse things about it in this book. Her language is at times a little overwrought, but whose wouldn't be dealing with these subjects.

The plot thickens! This was much more fast-paced than the last one, taking place over what seemed like just a few days. The longer, series-spanning mystery is getting much more interesting.

I'm not usually in to books set in this time period, but this was available as an audiobook download when I needed something to read, and I found myself enjoying it. The characters were sympathetic, and there was a nice feminist undertone to the story.

This was a huge book with so much history, memoir, and stories. Sometimes it was hard to follow, and sometimes it was hard to stomach--reading about all the horrific things white people have done to Native people. But the frequent switches from national history to personal to funny stories helped move things along.

OMG, I loved this book so, so much. It's like Promising Young Woman but for work. It's so wonderfully angry and bitter and feminist.

I enjoyed the suspense, the hiking background, and the characters in this story.

This was a ton of fun. Wildlife facts plus nature plus a thriller plus a super badass woman main character. So glad there are more books in the series!

Catherine Newman is so lovely and funny. I really appreciated the moral dilemma at the heart of this book.

This jumped around and repeated itself a bit. But it was still an interesting look inside prison.

This book started out frothy and ended disturbingly. I guess since I like both frothy and disturbing books I liked the whole thing. it was probably a 4.5 for me. The switching back and forth in time seemed a little forced and not really necessary for the plot. With four main characters to keep track of, trying to keep track of whether we were in the past or the future from the last chapter seemed too much.

This started off strong and was really interesting–full of behind-the-scenes facts about zoos and animals, and grappling with the hard choices that the existence of zoos create. The second part devolved a bit, and became more focused on the downfall of the zoo's director. This was less interesting.

This was very fun, engrossing, and interesting. Both the present-day and past stories were page turners, and I was always excited to switch from one to the other.

I liked the story-within-a-story because it allowed the author to make the main characters' romance drama last the length of the book without seeming silly or manufactured by misunderstandings, etc.

This was the perfect listen on a road trip. It kept me engaged and having fun. It did have the annoying trait some books have of the main character being clueless much longer than seems believable, but it wasn't too bad in that regard.

I didn't love this as much as I did some of her other work. I guess it's a collection of essays instead of a memoir? It's one of those where things are explained over and over again because each essay is supposed to be able to stand alone. And the essays themselves feel sort of disjointed.

I got all the way through this (audiobook) though there were definitely times I was ready to give up. I had a teacher in college say that the reason descriptions of hell are so detailed and those of heaven are not is because anything infinite is ultimately awful to contemplate. And this book felt infinite. I really stayed because I wanted an explanation for Peter's behavior, and when it came it was so wish-fulfilmenty that I was sorry I had stayed.

A fun read. Not too different from the movie.

I read a lot about AI and sometimes feel like I'm aware of all the issues that can be raised about it, but this book gave me new things to thing about, plus a fun romance, witty banter, and great characters to love or be exasperated with. A thoroughly enjoyable read with just the right balance of fluff and seriousness.

The back and forth between past and present, trauma revelations, etc. felt a little familiar in this book, but it was still a good and suspenseful read.

Loved it. Perhaps not quite as much fun as the last one since most of the action takes place after Pride & Prejudice (and one of the characters' personalities was completely changed in a way that didn't really make sense) but I still loved it and love being back in Melinda Taub's upside-down Austen world.

Maybe 4.5. I really enjoyed this book and appreciated its themes.

This was as weird as to be expected, but also insightful. And strange. I guess I'm basic enough that I mostly like to know when something in a book is actually happening and when it's all in someone's head, but with Jason Mott that's just never clear.

I wanted to love this because I love Percival Everett, but the weird sex stuff just got to be too much for me and I put it down.

This was a book about losing a child but, more than that, I think it's a book about being a parent, in all circumstances and through whatever happens. There were some truly beautiful sentences in this book.