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Cohen said:
Bright Young Women? Why
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Well it reads like the author got her facts from Wikipedia lol, and I didn't find the narrators likeable. The stereotypes she used, including the ever popular "men are horrible" one - not one good one in the book and the narrator says half the men she knows are just as bad as "The Defendant". Really? Half the men you know are just as bad as Ted Bundy? What kind of men are you hanging out with?

The author also comes off as a giant hypocrite, writing a book so closely based on a true story that she didn't even bother to change all the victims' names, while criticizing other people who have made money off this story. She needed to either write a fictional story, or the true story, not this mixture that is supposed to be the victims' stories but isn't at all.
 
Cohen
Cohen
okay those are fair assessments. i'm about halfway through. Tina is confusing me.
ILLYRIAN
ILLYRIAN
I'm tempted but I won't ask if it is the top half or the bottom half that is being referred to (this being a family friendly board)
11. Memory Loss

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab

Everyone has memory loss around her.
 
Buffy Summers said:
Well it reads like the author got her facts from Wikipedia lol, and I didn't find the narrators likeable. The stereotypes she used, including the ever popular "men are horrible" one - not one good one in the book and the narrator says half the men she knows are just as bad as "The Defendant". Really? Half the men you know are just as bad as Ted Bundy? What kind of men are you hanging out with?

The author also comes off as a giant hypocrite, writing a book so closely based on a true story that she didn't even bother to change all the victims' names, while criticizing other people who have made money off this story. She needed to either write a fictional story, or the true story, not this mixture that is supposed to be the victims' stories but isn't at all.
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The back half was not as good as the first half. The random lesbian storyline made me literally laugh out loud. I gave it 3 stars for a solid start.
 
Had to double check the dates for my current book for Victorian era, this one isn't there at 1827, but it's 1837-1901.
 

  1. California (set somewhere in the state)
  2. Vampire (any book containing vampires)
  3. High school (set in a high school)
  4. Victorian England (the land of Spike and Drusilla)
  5. Female hero (any book that has the main hero a female)
  6. Powerless (someone that had power but loses it in the book)
  7. Angel (Angel in the title)
  8. Death of a partner ( book where the main characters partner dies)
  9. Lawyers ( book featuring lawyers)
  10. Visions ( someone has visions or is a seer)
  11. Memory loss ( someone has temporary or memory loss)
  12. Birthday ( a birthday is celebrated in the book)
3 down, 9 to read.
 
I read Gisele Pelicot Hymn to Life biography which definitely features lawyers.
 
8. Death of a partner

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. Okay, at the moment she's only assumed dead, but with the population now under one million, in most cases that would be a safe assumption.
 
12. Birthday,

There was a surprise birthday party in Twisted Love
 
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