Best wishes with your reading choices for March. I hope they make you happy.

yasss, so glad to hear you liked When No One is Watching! I'm so excited for Cole's new thriller coming out next month!

I love long wrapups! I'm so glad I didn't pick up nestlings for the same reason you didn't quite enjoy it. Maybe one day but I'm pretty burned out on the motherhood trope 😅

Love the new set up

I hated nestlings lol it was a 2 star for me. I didn't like the maidens and didn't care to read the fury but I loved the silent patient by him, that was a 5 star read for me . Maybe try that one if you want😊

So glad you enjoyed Out There. I’m not a sci-fi girly either but I’d say that collection is “speculative” which I really love, which brings together weird/horror/fantasy/scifi in a really readable way 🙌🏻

10:55 agreed

Nice surprise in my notifications, I’ve been waiting for your wrap up. I follow you on Goodreads, and sometimes you’ll be in my feed and you read a book I have and I look forward to your reviews. 😊 I’m reading Voices in the Snow today, my first Darcy! But here’s what I want to know, is it scary? I want scary, I don’t see anyone mention that in reviews. And should I reserve the second book in my library, am I going to need to know what happens next right when I finish? I loved The Quiet Tenant. I really feel like it’s a story about women, if not for the creepiness in the captivity I almost feel like it’s literary fiction. I have a hard time saying it’s a thriller, there’s no twist, does a thriller have to have a twist? It’s a character study on the man, but it’s also very much about women and how we deal. I’m a woman, I’ve probably mentioned this but don’t expect you to remember, my kid took over my account and I haven’t taken the time to move everything over to a new one, I’ve had this account so long 😢..but I related to so much of the book, luckily I haven’t been in that situation, but even from the first page, how some men can try to mold and own women, I thought it was very powerful, and so impressive that English isn’t the authors first language! I recently watched Satan Wants You..it’s on Tubi. I thought I knew so much about the satanic panic, but I knew none of this, the documentarians got in touch with so many people that have never spoken publicly, it was fascinating. It’s about the book Michelle Remembers, which I’ve heard of, and that it was a part of the panic, but that was about it. You might enjoy it, it got no hype when it came out sadly. Afterwards of course I had to listen to all the interviews with the creators, just so interesting how deeply society can be effected by something and how far it can spread.

Thank you 🙏🏽

I really recommend Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent! The plot synopsis doesn't say much but it's actually like The Quiet Tenant except way better in my opinion 😊

I loved Out There when I read it a few years ago as well! Such a great short story collection. I should really do a reread of that one!

Agree 💯with your Nestling thoughts, Mary was so much better.

I love the ramblings best part of the video ever prayers and blessings for you and your family love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤five star ⭐️ video

I also thought Mary was better than Nestlings but enjoyed them both. Too bad the reveal of Five Total Stransgers was not great but I also loved No Exit and Survive the Night so I might pick it up. Tastes Like Candy was a lot of fun. And all I wanted from a slasher in a carnival 😅

I'm in the minority, but I did not care for Mary. However, I actually LOVED Nestlings and it was in my top five books of 2023. I find it so interesting how books reach (or don't reach) people in so many different ways. And, as always, I love your makeup!

Your hair looks good!! I am reading a good cozy mystery! It’s called Moving is Murder by Nellie Steele. I love it! They need to make a movie. She writes ghostly cozies and clean romance all kinds. Check her out

Nestlings is shockingly similar to lock every door. I read nestlings before i read lock every door, and i feel like i was able to predict everything that was going to happen because i read nestlings and the books were just sooo similar. It felt like someone read lock every door and rewrote it changing some bits and characters but essentially the stories felt exactly the same. Both were not good and had stupid endings, but i can at least appreciate that nat cassidy is a much better writer than riley and at least tried to do something somewhat creative with the ultimate place the story goes but ultimately both sucked for me i just hated lock every door a lot more.

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Five total strangers was a waste of my time 😒 I didn’t realize it was YA

I dnfed Five Total Strangers and A History of Fear😄 they bored me

Oof you didn’t like Nestlings? I wonder how I’ll feel about it