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Isabella Piestrzynska

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What a bore

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2 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-30-24

If this novel wasn’t about lesbians, it would never have been published. The one-note lamentations are dreary and irritating.

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I listened out of respect for the skilled writing…

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1 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed: 01-10-24

…but the overcooked length and the hours spent with the self-absorbed and unpleasant characters—just staggering. Slow, ponderous, boring,

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Em…what is going on… never mind.

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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: 12-12-23

I actually have a lit degree, but I gave up on this one! Pretty writing.

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I can’t finish this book

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Reviewed: 09-11-23

The narrator’s inauthentic British accent is so camp, arch, and smug that it makes everything meaningless. Diamond sounds like an effete academic rather than a gritty cop. Not even sure if the writing is good. Those useless
Bloodhounds… I will see if there is a better narrator further down the list.

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Beautifully written but…meh

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2 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed: 07-15-23

I could not finish the book. Just did not care. A love story between a wimp and a winner. Don’t care about the frissons. All predestined, anyway.

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Misery. More. Misery.

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Reviewed: 07-12-23

An emotionally stunted detective and a town full of unhappy characters. Unbearable and unrelenting self-pity without any relief.

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Fabulous series

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Reviewed: 06-21-23

I love the twists and reveals and how the character of Riley grows in maturity and understanding from book to book.

But why the astonishing and jarring pronoun mistakes? Where, in the end, was the copy editor? Book after book. It’s not “for
her and I” or “with her and I.” For me, so for her and me. I propose reviewing the rule for prepositions!!!

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The reading is impossible

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1 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed: 02-07-23

The sweet, breathy voice that has no drama, no tension, no variety.
The pauses. The deadly boredom. Could not finish the book.

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Just fabulous

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Reviewed: 01-01-23

What wonderful character—all in the throes of moral musings. And then there is George, the perfect detective for these muddled times.

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A hapless heroine

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-12-22

If you are irritated by yet another doomed, fragile woman who is not in tune with herself and her surroundings, then this is not the book for you! Otherwise, good twists and turns.

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