AT THE END OF THE LINE by Kathryn Longino
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This story had more twist and turns than a tangled chain and until the very end you were left trying to figure out who was who!! Loved it!!
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I love anything by Gillian Flynn. I would read a phone book if she wrote one. The Grownup is a creepy, engrossing read. I read it in one sitting! I do wish it had been a little longer, but I loved the story!
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The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks, book. It was a little slow to start but then you didn't want to put it down. I figured out the ending before I was done with the book.
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This was a very good book, I enjoyed reading it.  I believe that Kathryn Springer is a very good writer.
  It just gets better to the end!
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Nancee Swartz -The Goldfinch was a Pulitzer Prize winning novel and won the National Book Critic award. It is similar to a Dickens tale with many twists and turns, It tells the story of a boy who undergoes life changes when his family faces a tragedy.  He meets many interesting characters and each cause him to change who he becomes and what is important to him in his life. I would guess they will make this into a movie or a miniseries. The characters are so well defined you feel they are friends as you move along in the story. I liked the ending although I know some readers felt it was abrupt. It is a slice of life story and if you take it as such the entire plot is more meaningful.  I give it 5 stars,  Nancee Swartz
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This was a very good book and kept my attention from the start to the finish.  It was so well written, that I truly felt like I was there and a part of the story!  I can't wait to read more from this author.  Kudos also to Sarah Varney for her excellent translation of the story from the original Italian version!
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Ms. Kent takes us on a journey through the last days of the last person, a woman named Agnes Magnusdottir, executed in Iceland. She artfully draws us into the story by giving us the voice of the condemned, helping us understand what happened, the politics about her execution, and the struggle of the family who guarded her as well as the priest who was to save her soul. Her skill at making the characters leap off the page to tell their perspectives, to make us care deeply, and to show the spiritual humanity of those who dare to question will keep readers engaged in the story from the first word to the last.
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I enjoyed the book very much.  It kept me very interested all the way through.  The ending put the finishing touch to the whole story.
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By the time I was finished with this book, I had thought that each one of the characters was the murderer. It kept me guessing right up until the end. A rather long book, I wasn't glad when it was over, but sorry it ended.  It was a good read.  I recommend it.
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Read this book right after The Nightingale by the same author.  The Nightingale was fantastic, and I HAD to read another book by Kristin Hannah.  If I could give this book 4.5 stars, I would, just because Nightingale was the BEST.  I like the Northwest setting, and enjoyed reminiscing about the UW campus setting.  You need tissues while you read, though.  I tried to stop myself from reading on the bus to work or at lunch break, due to getting teary, but could not stop reading.
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I really enjoyed reading "The Longest Ride" by Nicholas Sparks.  It was very difficult to put my Kindle down when I had other things to do.  The book is well written and truly hold the reader's interest to the final word is read.
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In 1943 Della Lee Trujillo is convicted of killing her sister Eula.  The book begins 70 years later when Della Lee is released from prison and returns to her hometown of Puerto Pesar (Port of Regret).
Paloma left Puerto Pesar to attend college and medical school.  She has postponed the start of her new job to return home to care for her grandmother after a heart attack. Once home, she realizes how much her grandmother and sister need her and she needs them.
Mick Anders has come to town seeking a story that will save his career.  Listening to Della's story changes his life.
Della seemed like a person that was not capable of murder so I kept reading to find out what happened.  The book does have a wonderful resolution with these three lives coming together.
The book includes the story of Della Lee's time in prison, includes a sexual assault, and is terribly sad.
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I look forward to reading this book at every opportunity. A part of the story sees the characters leave Florence and travel to Venice and as I was there myself two years ago, I am enjoying reliving some of the places they talk about. It's an interesting book in many ways. I didn't know much about Dante or his poems, or even about Florence where most of the story is set, but have since looked some of it up on the internet. The book moves along a good rate and the idea of overpopulation of the earth really gives us something to think about. I am looking forward to seeing how the story ends, though in some ways will be sad to finish this book. I will however, be reading some of the Dan Brown books that feature Robert Langdon, the main character in Inferno.
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This is the first Pam Jenoff novel I have read. I was sorry to see the story end. Her approach was very interesting and the characters well drawn. Thank you, Pam, for honoring so many of the lives lost during this (awful) period of history.
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This book focuses on the life of Kathy Morandini, after her death of her husband, Bart. It goes through the challenges and surprises she encounters while trying to cope with her husband's death. In the mean time, she tries to find closure with her husband's old-fashioned Italian family. Primarily, with the Contessa Morandini, Bart's grandmother, who never met the girl with whom Bart spent his last days. Their first meeting ended up with the idea that Kathy was pregnant with Bart's child, a lie which kept her alive. Instead, what Kathy does get out of it is a child branded with madness, a couple of possible new love interests, and the spook of a lifetime. The Italian countryside, where the Morandini villa was located, proved to be a haunting place full of lies, death, treachery, and disgrace, and Kathy was caught in the middle of it all.
Barbara Michaels used an interesting and subtle way to add romance with suspense into her novel. She created a setting for a Nancy Drew mixed with Stephen King suspense elements in The Grey Beginning. I liked the easy-to-read writing that was used for a better understanding of the context and the many surprises that were added which made me not want to put the book down. This book was written to throw the reader off into a game of guessing where everyone was an actor in this mystery.
The clues that were dropped, threw my guesses off track and made me more caught up in the novel. I started to read this book thinking it would just be a story about the memories recollected by a young widow haunted by her husband's death. But because of Barbara Michaels captivating writing skills, this book was far from what I expected it to be. Instead, it was an intriguing look into the dangers of love and hate, faith and betrayal.
I recommend this novel to those who like page-turners full of romance embedded with a mix of thrill and mystery. It was an attention-grabber and I hope everyone will enjoy The Grey Beginning as I did.
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All three of the "line" books have been terrific.  "A Red Dotted Line" gathered up loose ends and was an enthralling book.  It holds one's attention to the end.  Very much looking forward to the next Mike Walton book by Simon Gervais.
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You know it's a good book when you're sad to read the last page. The story was woven well between present and past. Only wish the ending was at the reunion. It would have been nice to see where the other survivors are, but I also know the story was really about how the three of them ended up there. I'm looking forward to reading any other novels Bill Rancic pens!