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What I did read was alright. I just couldn’t get into it. Nothing against the story or author. I may try again in the future. I completed the first short story and never picked it back up.

R. Chernow did a wonderful service to us all by authoring this biography of Grant.

I gave it four stars because he droned on and on in parts with the improvable accusations of Grant’s drinking escapades and they added nothing to Grant’s epic history. It could have been mentioned in much less detail and only pushed me to skip those parts.

Otherwise, this is a fantastic biography that everyone should read. Not just because of U.S. Grant’s record, but because of the man he was overall.

I had difficulty putting this one down. Not a five because it kind of dragged in parts when Alice is going on and on with her self doubt in some parts. I skimmed and skipped through those parts.

Great story overall and I highly recommend to anyone into magic, history and a bit of horror.

This is a great book with many Near Death Experiences included. One of them, Ben Breedlove, shared his NDE experience on YouTube only a week before he passed away:

https://youtube.com/@totalrandomness512?si=czdiVnLHNB7wRqMh

I am giving this three stars because what I read wasn’t bad. I read up until the author got kidnapped and was holed up in various places with some others that were also kidnapped. I didn’t finish because I already know how the story ends and i just wanted to understand what happened in the first place on how he was even kidnapped. Once I read that part I was ok with putting it down. For myself, I don’t like to read about torture and all of that if it was even in the book. Not sure and I didn’t have the desire to find out.

I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. I do enjoy “Coming of Age” and a wide range of other styles of writing.
I just couldn't get into this one. I actually put it down once the insane jealousy just got too much. To each their own. This one was just not for me.

I gave it Five stars because One Eye didn't die.

Can't wait to read the next in the series!

What a wonderful series I stumbled upon!

I haven't been this engrossed in a series in a very long time.

I highly recommend it!

Definitely not next “Gone Girl”! I think think this is for younger people because it was very juvenile to me at least.

It was tortuous to read...couldn't understand the main character's actions really at all. It was just so ridiculous trying to figure her out. I do not recommend this one to anyone.

A little bit slow in the beginning for me, not in a bad way. It was difficult trying to keep the characters straight in my mind and slowed me down a bit. After that I had a hard time putting it down. Highly recommend this to anyone into crime novels.

This was one of the saddest books I've read, if not the saddest. I kept hoping it would lighten up so I kept reading and could hardly put it down. I loved all of the characters and their unique ways. Because of the disappointing ending I gave it 4 star stars, rather than 5.

This story has so many great elements. I have always admired elephants and now admire and love them so much more after reading how brave and loving they are as described by their loving handlers. I never knew how useful they were during wartime. I feel humanity owes them so much respect and freedom at the very least. So much to learn from them and this book is a great tool!

I was very disappointed. I couldn't even finish the book because the main character, Taylor didn't seem to behave the way she did in Bean Trees at all. She did very uncharacteristic things that made me think the author forgot how the story was originally.

I just think it's funny how I happened to read The Poisonwood Bible in January; great book!
I found each character to be so entertaining and am again not disappointed by this great author.

I read it awhile ago and absolutely loved it! Will be reading it again!