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claire locher

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i got lost a lot

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-27-22

especially during the email exchanges. there were just a LOT of people and family tree diagrams would have helped…

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so so so SO GOOD

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-17-22

this was great — i read ready player one right before this book and this book was a breath of fresh air and also a slap in RP1’s face. all the characters had such depth and it really just turned fantasy on its head while giving a great story that RELIED on the horrible truth of american history rather than erasing it because it’s fantasy. I LOVED THIS BOOK

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Cliche story, weird audio glitches

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-08-22

Thought this was a classic book (so guess I got it mixed up with another), but instead it was filled with secret society cliches and dipped into Holocaust denial/rewriting.

The audio kept dipping at the end of sentences, which made the words spoken unintelligible. I really only finished the book to finish it.

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one of the top books i’ve read this year

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-14-20

i thought about this book when i wasn’t reading it; i so vividly visualized the scenes of this book it was jarring to pause it; and read the whole thing in a week because i just couldn’t stop! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND

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interesting take on classic stories, condescending reader

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4 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-02-20

i read this not as a child but as a lover of fairytales, so i knew most of the stories already. i liked other endings than presented in this anthology, which is fine. i didn’t like the tone of the reader, because i’m not a child and it felt like she was speaking down to me. interesting voices through.

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cliche + trashy

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2 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-29-20

often the cliches were so bad i rolled my eyes. the characters did ridiculous things. i finished the book only because i’d started it and it took me halfway through the book to realize i didn’t like it but i’m a finisher so i sloughed through the next five hours. also the book is so strangely structured (with way more time put in the first half of the book than i’d think good or possible) that i felt like i was waiting for the book to begin for the first four and a half hours.

i feel bad giving such a bad review, but you have to know what you’re getting yourself into here — a mildly amusing police story to pass your time. it strikes me as a trashy romantic novel but the topic is police.

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chilling but addicting

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-26-19

an incredible psychological thriller. ann marie lee reads it amazingly — i usually read books at 1.25x speed because of impatience, but this one i savored at 1x speed.

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