As I said, I am continuing to read Kristin Hannah’s novels (at least the ones that sound interesting to me). I like Winter Garden better than The Four Winds, but like The Four Winds, Winter Garden can’t hold a candle to The Nightingale.
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The Seventh Veil of Salome is Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s last book published before The Bewitching and somehow I only just learned about its existence. I really like Moreno-Garcia’s novels, so of course I had to read it. It is historical fiction like her other novels, but it is missing the supernatural elements that I enjoy about her storytelling.
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Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore has been chosen as Indigo’s #1 Best Book of 2025, and it is an interesting choice, not because I think it is a bad novel (it’s actually pretty good), but because there are certain elements of the story that feel contrived and uninspired.
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I have been waiting over a year to read Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods because the hardcover version was expensive, and I was not able to find it on sale. The paperback version finally came out at the end of October, and let me tell you, it was worth the wait to read this book.
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I decided to read Rumaan Alam’s Entitlement because I thought Leave the World Behind was an interesting enough story, so perhaps this story would be too. But no, Entitlement is just as dumb as its protagonist.
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Seven Fallen Feathers is Tanya Talaga’s first book, published back in 2017, and was recommended to me. It is about the systemic racism against Indigenous people in Canada and has managed to upset me more than The Knowing did.
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The Four Winds is the second novel that I have read that is written by Kristin Hannah. It is a good novel, but I did not feel the same emotional connection to it as I did with The Nightingale (ie. I did not bawl my eyes out at the end).
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Sisters in the Wind is Angeline Boulley’s third novel and has the same setting and some of the same characters as her first two novels, Firekeeper’s Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed. Although not as good as the other two novels, I initially found Sisters in the Wind to be an interesting story. But now that I have had some time to reflect on it, I have realized that I do not like this novel very much.
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I knew as soon as I heard that Kamala Harris was publishing a book about the 2024 election I was going to buy it. I was very curious to know her thoughts about her opponent and her election loss. 107 Days does not disappoint that regard. If you have any curiosity in learning more about Kamala Harris, I recommend reading this book.
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On the face of it, Holly Brickley’s Deep Cuts seems like it would be a very similar story to Marissa Stapley’s The Lightning Bottles as they are both novels about a pair of music lovers where the man finds greater success than his female counterpart, but these novels are actually quite different from each other. And while I think I they are both good novels, Deep Cuts is the one that I would most likely read again.
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