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Ericka Wilborn

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So Good To Get Backstory On Key Hunger Games Characters!

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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: 03-28-25

The story was excellent— told well and very engaging. It was great to get more info about the lives of some older characters from Catniss’ Hunger Games.

It seems too short, though. It would have been great to learn more than this book tells about Catniss’ father, more Covey culture/character development with less Covey music/poetry, and smoother transitions from crisis to crisis. It seems to have been over-edited to appease today’s younger readers’ need for constant ‘fast action’.

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A Good Ghost Story…But More About The Ghost Needed

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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: 04-30-24

I enjoyed this book. The character development and plot line exposition really would have benefited from a gripping historical preface— perhaps the experience of one of the previous haunted family members. Instead, there really wasn’t any action until the very end, which made for a slower, not-so-interesting story in the middle of the book.

The ending was good, though. I didn’t guess what was coming, and it’s always nice to be surprised. I just wish that more details of the ‘hidden truth’ and its supernatural resolution had been shared by the author before the story’s end.

All in all, it’s a good read. I just wish I wasn’t left feeling as though some parts were missing.

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The Drake Family Story Is A Dud

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

Reviewed: 01-14-24

The mystery ‘solve’ was lame. The characters were great, but the Drake family murder/parental drama story was uninspired.

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So Unbelievably Boring…

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

Reviewed: 03-15-22

This author has taken a scintillating subject and made it sound like a high school social studies text! Ugh!

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I Can’t Believe This Was Free!

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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: 01-19-22

This book was wonderful! The author’s style reminds me of a fantasy-free Mary Janice Davidson’s ‘Undead and——‘ novel. So engaging! Great, appropriately placed humor with real underlying family drama. This one is even politically & culturally sensitive. I’m looking forward to reading her next work! 👍

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The Reader Was Awful—But The Books Prevailed

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3 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-20-21

This trio of short story sequels was interesting and compelling enough to to keep one interested in ‘what comes next’. However the reading performance was terrible. She sounded snarky, sneering, and/or sarcastic on every sentence! And, on cliffhanger chapter endings she was ridiculously over-dramatic! I honestly can’t believe she wasn’t fired before publishing. The only voice she did well was the sword— because the sword’s personality WAS always snarky!

Kudos to the author for writing a somewhat compelling short trilogy (obvious sequel to come), but get a new reader if you want your books to really sell! This was a freebie with membership, and I can see why.

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This Book Is An Immoral Mess

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

Reviewed: 04-30-21

This is an overly wordy story of a successful murder— which should be exciting, but it’s just NOT. The heroine is meant to sound Victorian, but actually sounds paranoid & pitiful throughout. I’m not sure how much of this is the author and how much is the narrator. The ample amount of lesbian erotica is very detailed, which is not indicated in the book’s summary. And, there is so much unnecessary repetition! The author also— with great repetition— speaks against the anti-Semitic persecution of Jews during the Inquisition. The lesbian, adulterous, angry wife and the lesbian, insecure, mailable governess are both Jewish (or half), and these factors are meant to help the reader rejoice for them at the end, which is not the case.

A very unsatisfying read. I am neither anti-Semitic nor insensitive to the LGBTQ community, but I can’t imagine either group would call this a great book. I see why it was free with membership.

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