Lucy's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 07 Aug 2024 21:49:45 -0700 60 Lucy's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Independent Study (The Testing, #2)]]> 20104361 383 Joelle Charbonneau 1848771681 Lucy 0 ya-2014 3.82 2014 Independent Study (The Testing, #2)
author: Joelle Charbonneau
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at: 2014/01/27
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: ya-2014
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Remix 21472663
Kaz is still reeling from being dumped by the love of her life... Ruby is bored of hearing about it. Time to change the record.

Three days. Two best mates. One music festival. Zero chance of everything working out.]]>
304 Non Pratt Lucy 5 3.58 2015 Remix
author: Non Pratt
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2015/03/19
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: chooseya-s-recommendations, readin2015, received-for-review, oh-the-feels, ukya, ya-2015
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<![CDATA[World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)]]> 17849112 Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world. When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.

Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans, where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.

Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose?

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320 Susan Ee 1477867287 Lucy 0 to-read 4.09 2013 World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)
author: Susan Ee
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)]]> 31076583 229 Sarah J. Maas 168119631X Lucy 0 3.77 2019 A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2021/02/25
date added: 2024/07/01
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Vortex (Tempest, #2) 16036138 435 Julie Cross 0230757162 Lucy 3 received-for-review, ya-2013 Full review to come. 3.88 2013 Vortex (Tempest, #2)
author: Julie Cross
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2013/02/08
date added: 2024/02/23
shelves: received-for-review, ya-2013
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Tempest (Tempest, #1) 13092652 418 Julie Cross 0330543806 Lucy 4 received-for-review, ya-2012 3.63 2011 Tempest (Tempest, #1)
author: Julie Cross
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2013/01/19
date added: 2024/02/23
shelves: received-for-review, ya-2012
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<![CDATA[Crash into You (Pushing the Limits, #3)]]> 18454323
The girl with straight A's and the perfect life—that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy family…and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker—a guy she has no business even talking to. But after the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind.

The last thing Isaiah needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks. But when their shared love of street racing puts their lives in jeopardy, Isaiah and Rachel will have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.]]>
484 Katie McGarry 1848452543 Lucy 0 to-read 4.43 2013 Crash into You (Pushing the Limits, #3)
author: Katie McGarry
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at: 2013/09/24
date added: 2023/09/30
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Virals (Virals, #1) 7800188
As the friends discover their heightened senses and animal-quick reflexes, they must combine their scientific curiosity with their newfound physical gifts to solve a cold-case murder that has suddenly become very hot--if they can stay alive long enough to catch the killer's scent.

Fortunately, they are now more than friends--they're a pack. They are Virals.]]>
454 Kathy Reichs 1595143424 Lucy 4 3.95 2010 Virals (Virals, #1)
author: Kathy Reichs
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2023/08/03
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Virgin (Virgin, #1) 18624367 Okay, I admit it…I didn’t do it.

Yet.

This is normal, right? I mean, just because everyone I know has talked like they’ve already done it doesn’t mean that they’re telling the truth…right?

It’s not like I’m asking for that much. I don’t need the perfect guy. I don’t need candlelight or roses. Honestly, I don’t even need a real bed.

The guys I know complain that girls are always looking for Mr. Right—do I have to wear a sign that says I’m only looking for Mr. Right Now?

Sooooo…anyone out there want sex? Anyone? Hello? Just for fun?

I am not going to die a virgin. One way or another I am going to make this happen.

Hey, what have I got to lose? Besides the obvious.]]>
304 Radhika Sanghani 069816864X Lucy 0 3.31 2014 Virgin (Virgin, #1)
author: Radhika Sanghani
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.31
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at: 2015/03/28
date added: 2023/08/02
shelves: new-adult, readin2015, non-blog
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<![CDATA[The Dead House (The Dead House, #1)]]> 22396591
Re-opened police records, psychiatric reports, transcripts of video footage and fragments of diary reveal a web of deceit and intrigue, violence and murder, raising a whole lot more questions than it answers.

Who was Kaitlyn and why did she only appear at night? Did she really exist or was she a figment of a disturbed mind? What were the illicit rituals taking place at the school? And just what did happen at Elmbridge in the events leading up to ‘the Johnson Incident�?]]>
440 Dawn Kurtagich 1780622341 Lucy 0 readin2015 3.68 2015 The Dead House (The Dead House, #1)
author: Dawn Kurtagich
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2015/09/02
date added: 2023/08/02
shelves: readin2015
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<![CDATA[Crash into You (Pushing the Limits, #3)]]> 17233800
The girl with straight A's and the perfect life—that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy family…and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker—a guy she has no business even talking to. But after the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind.

The last thing Isaiah needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks. But when their shared love of street racing puts their lives in jeopardy, Isaiah and Rachel will have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.]]>
474 Katie McGarry 037321099X Lucy 0 ya-2013 4.26 2013 Crash into You (Pushing the Limits, #3)
author: Katie McGarry
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at: 2013/12/17
date added: 2023/07/30
shelves: ya-2013
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Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone 11737266
Becca has always longed to break free from her small, backwater hometown. But the discovery of an unidentified dead girl on the side of a dirt road sends the town--and Becca--into a tailspin. Unable to make sense of the violence of the outside world creeping into her backyard, Becca finds herself retreating inward, paralyzed from moving forward for the first time in her life.

Short chapters detailing the last days of Amelia Anne Richardson's life are intercut with Becca's own summer as the parallel stories of two young women struggling with self-identity and relationships on the edge twist the reader closer and closer to the truth about Amelia's death.]]>
304 Kat Rosenfield 0525423893 Lucy 0 to-read 3.34 2012 Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone
author: Kat Rosenfield
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/07/21
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Hate List 7195359 I didn't mean for anyone to die.

Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.

Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.]]>
280 Jennifer Brown 031607120X Lucy 0 3.99 2009 Hate List
author: Jennifer Brown
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at: 2013/04/14
date added: 2023/03/23
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Truly Madly Guilty 27831371 The electrifying new novel from the international bestselling author, Liane Moriarty

Despite their differences, Erika and Clementine have been best friends since they were children. So when Erika needs help, Clementine should be the obvious person to turn to. Or so you'd think.

For Clementine, as a mother of a two desperately trying to practise for the audition of a lifetime, the last thing she needs is Erika asking for something, again.

But the barbecue should be the perfect way to forget their problems for a while. Especially when their hosts, Vid and Tiffany, are only too happy to distract them.

Which is how it all spirals out of control...

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517 Liane Moriarty 1250069815 Lucy 0 Overall, an interesting read however the pace was a little slow for me as a domestic thriller however I found it easier to get into than The Husband's Secret (thus far). I would have liked a little more pay-off as well towards the end regarding any twists and such but I don't think it's that kind of book really.

I would however be happy to check out more of Liane Moriarty's books in the future as I do think there's something there with her writing that did pull me in and intrigue me. ]]>
3.59 2016 Truly Madly Guilty
author: Liane Moriarty
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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This is my first Liane Moriarty book (I started Husband's Secret but haven't been able to get into it yet)
Overall, an interesting read however the pace was a little slow for me as a domestic thriller however I found it easier to get into than The Husband's Secret (thus far). I would have liked a little more pay-off as well towards the end regarding any twists and such but I don't think it's that kind of book really.

I would however be happy to check out more of Liane Moriarty's books in the future as I do think there's something there with her writing that did pull me in and intrigue me.
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Dog Rose Dirt 55782445 What if your mother had been writing to a serial killer?

A convicted murderer with a story to tell

Serial killer Michael Reave � known as The Red Wolf � has been locked in Belmarsh Prison for over 20 years for the brutal and ritualistic murders of countless women.

A grieving daughter with a secret to unearth

Ex-journalist Heather Evans returns to her childhood home after her mother’s inexplicable suicide and discovers something chilling � hundreds of letters between her mother and Reave, dating back decades.

A hunt for a killer ready to strike again

When the body of a woman is found decorated with flowers, just like his victims, Reave is the only person alive who could help. After years of silence, he will speak to Heather, and only Heather.

If she wants to unearth the truth and stop further bloodshed, she’ll have to confront a monster.]]>
400 Jen Williams 0008383790 Lucy 0 3.60 2021 Dog Rose Dirt
author: Jen Williams
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2021/07/29
date added: 2022/06/21
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Drummer Girl 16691515 361 Bridget Tyler 1848776926 Lucy 4 ya-2013, received-for-review 3.89 2013 Drummer Girl
author: Bridget Tyler
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2013/04/27
date added: 2022/01/20
shelves: ya-2013, received-for-review
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Two Can Keep a Secret 38225791
The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone's declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.

Ellery knows all about secrets. Her mother has them; her grandmother does too. And the longer she's in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. The thing is, secrets are dangerous--and most people aren't good at keeping them. Which is why in Echo Ridge, it's safest to keep your secrets to yourself.]]>
329 Karen M. McManus 1524714720 Lucy 0 3.92 2019 Two Can Keep a Secret
author: Karen M. McManus
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2021/08/22
date added: 2021/12/31
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The Chalk Man 35356382
In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank . . . until one of them turns up dead.

That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.]]>
280 C.J. Tudor 1524760986 Lucy 0 3.68 2018 The Chalk Man
author: C.J. Tudor
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2021/10/31
date added: 2021/12/31
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<![CDATA[Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)]]> 37655505
A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write a feature on the anniversary of the tragedy. But the stories he hears from the locals about the priest and incidents leading up to the shooting don't fit with the accepted version of events his own newspaper reported in an award-winning investigation. Martin can't ignore his doubts, nor the urgings of some locals to unearth the real reason behind the priest's deadly rampage.

Just as Martin believes he is making headway, a shocking new development rocks the town, which becomes the biggest story in Australia. The media descends on Riversend and Martin is now the one in the spotlight. His reasons for investigating the shooting have suddenly become very personal.

Wrestling with his own demons, Martin finds himself risking everything to discover a truth that becomes darker and more complex with every twist. But there are powerful forces determined to stop him, and he has no idea how far they will go to make sure the town's secrets stay buried.

A compulsive thriller that will haunt you long after you have turned the final page.]]>
496 Chris Hammer 1760632988 Lucy 0 3.87 2018 Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)
author: Chris Hammer
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/09
date added: 2021/12/31
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All the Lonely People 41576526
All the Lonely People is a timely story about online culture that explores the experience of loneliness in a connected world, and the power of kindness and empathy over hatred.]]>
308 David Owen 0349003203 Lucy 0 3.56 2019 All the Lonely People
author: David Owen
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2021/05/06
date added: 2021/12/31
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Nine Perfect Strangers 39280445 Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever?

These nine perfect strangers are about to find out...

Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be.

Frances Welty, the formerly best-selling romantic novelist, arrives at Tranquillum House nursing a bad back, a broken heart, and an exquisitely painful paper cut. She’s immediately intrigued by her fellow guests. Most of them don’t look to be in need of a health resort at all. But the person that intrigues her most is the strange and charismatic owner/director of Tranquillum House. Could this person really have the answers Frances didn’t even know she was seeking? Should Frances put aside her doubts and immerse herself in everything Tranquillum House has to offer—or should she run while she still can?

It’s not long before every guest at Tranquillum House is asking exactly the same question.

Combining all of the hallmarks that have made Liane Moriarty's writing a go-to for anyone looking for wickedly smart, page-turning fiction that will make you laugh and gasp, Nine Perfect Strangers once again shows why she is a master of her craft.]]>
453 Liane Moriarty 1250069823 Lucy 0 3.53 2018 Nine Perfect Strangers
author: Liane Moriarty
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2021/06/12
date added: 2021/12/31
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<![CDATA[There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years]]> 42586634 302 Mike Berners-Lee 1108439586 Lucy 0 4.05 2019 There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
author: Mike Berners-Lee
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2021/02/08
date added: 2021/12/31
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<![CDATA[Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)]]> 9301
But what Rachel doesn’t count on are the toe-curling embarrassments heaped on her by family and group therapy, the dearth of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll � and missing Luke, her ex. What kind of a new start in life is this?]]>
578 Marian Keyes 0060090383 Lucy 0 3.99 1997 Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)
author: Marian Keyes
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1997
rating: 0
read at: 2021/02/07
date added: 2021/12/31
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Missing Person 36204287 Reclusive bookseller Shaun Ryan has always believed that his uncle Teddy died in a car accident twenty years ago. Then he learns the truth: Teddy fled his home in Catholic, deeply conservative County Wicklow, Ireland, for New York and hasn't been heard from since. None of Shaun's relatives will reveal why they lied about his uncle's death or why they want Shaun to leave the whole affair alone.

But Shaun has a burning need to find out the truth. His search is unsuccessful until he's contacted by Chris Guzman, a woman who runs a website dedicated to matching missing-persons cases with unidentified bodies. Chris and her team of cold-case obsessives suspect that Shaun is looking for the "Boy in the Dress," one victim in a series of gay men murdered by the same killer.

But who are these internet fanatics really, and how do they know so much about a case that has stumped police for decades? Soon armchair sleuths and professional investigators are on a collision course with a sadistic serial killer who's gotten away with his crimes for far too long - and now they're in his sights.]]>
468 Sarah Lotz 0316396648 Lucy 0 3.63 2019 Missing Person
author: Sarah Lotz
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2021/07/25
date added: 2021/12/31
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<![CDATA[Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)]]> 51335759
With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.

But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh.

The police won't do anything about it. And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way... and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it's too late?]]>
413 Holly Jackson 1405297751 Lucy 0 4.27 2020 Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
author: Holly Jackson
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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Unsticky 5981262 High fashion, high art, high expectations—this is Pretty Woman for the twenty-first century.

Money makes the world go round—that’s what twenty-something Grace Reeves is learning. Stuck in a grind where everyone’s ahead apart from her, she’s partied out, disillusioned, and massively in debt. If she’s dumped by another rock-band wannabe, squashed by anyone else at her cut-throat fashion job, or chased by any more bailiffs, Grace suspects she’ll fall apart �

So when older, sexy and above all, wealthy art-dealer Vaughn appears, she’s intrigued against her will. Could she handle being a sugar daddy’s arm candy?

Soon Grace is thrown into a world of money and privilege, at Vaughn’s beck and call in return for thousands of pounds in luxurious gifts, priceless clothes—and cash. Where’s the line between acting the trophy girlfriend, and selling yourself for money?

And, more importantly: whatever happened to love?]]>
562 Sarra Manning 0755347374 Lucy 0 3.94 2009 Unsticky
author: Sarra Manning
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at: 2021/10/29
date added: 2021/12/31
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56 Days 57628810
56 DAYS AGO
Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores.

35 DAYS AGO
When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests that Ciara move in with him. She sees a unique opportunity for a new relationship to flourish without the pressure of scrutiny of family and friends. He sees it as an opportunity to hide who - and what - he really is.

TODAY
Detectives arrive at Oliver's apartment to discover a decomposing body inside.

Will they be able to determine what really happened, or has lockdown provided someone with the opportunity to commit the perfect crime?]]>
305 Catherine Ryan Howard 1982694653 Lucy 0 3.68 2021 56 Days
author: Catherine Ryan Howard
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2021/12/01
date added: 2021/12/31
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Bad Girls Never Say Die 55780548
1964. Houston, Texas.

Evie Barnes is a bad girl. So are all her friends. They’re the sort who wear bold makeup, laugh too loud, and run around with boys. Most of all, they protect their own against the world. So when Evie is saved from a sinister encounter by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks, every rule she's always lived by is called into question. Now she must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knew about loyalty.

In this riveting story of murder, secrets, and tragedy, Jennifer Mathieu puts a female twist on S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders . Bad Girls Never Say Die has all the drama and heartache of that teen classic, but with a feminist take just right for our times.]]>
304 Jennifer Mathieu 1250232589 Lucy 0 3.68 2021 Bad Girls Never Say Die
author: Jennifer Mathieu
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2021/11/29
date added: 2021/12/31
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<![CDATA[All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2)]]> 53746015 Following Spoiler Alert, Olivia Dade returns with another utterly charming romantic comedy about a devil-may-care actor—who actually cares more than anyone knows—and the no-nonsense woman hired to keep him in line.

Alexander Woodroe has it all. Charm. Sex appeal. Wealth. Fame. A starring role as Cupid on TV’s biggest show, God of the Gates. But the showrunners have wrecked his character, he’s dogged by old demons, and his post-show future remains uncertain. When all that reckless emotion explodes into a bar fight, the tabloids and public agree: his star is falling.

Enter Lauren Clegg, the former ER therapist hired to keep him in line. Compared to her previous work, watching over handsome but impulsive Alex shouldn’t be especially difficult. But the more time they spend together, the harder it gets to keep her professional remove and her heart intact, especially when she discovers the reasons behind his recklessness…not to mention his Cupid fanfiction habit.

When another scandal lands Alex in major hot water and costs Lauren her job, she’ll have to choose between protecting him and offering him what he really wants—her. But he’s determined to keep his improbably short, impossibly stubborn, and extremely endearing minder in his life any way he can. And on a road trip up the California coast together, he intends to show her exactly what a falling star will do to catch the woman he loves: anything at all.]]>
385 Olivia Dade 006300559X Lucy 0 3.84 2021 All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2)
author: Olivia Dade
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2021/12/22
date added: 2021/12/31
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<![CDATA[Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)]]> 50496918
April Whittier has secrets of her own. A hardcore Lavinia fan, she’s long hidden her fanfic and cosplay hobbies from her “real life”—but not anymore. When she dares to post her latest costume creation on Twitter, her plus-size take goes viral. And when Marcus asks her out to spite her internet critics, truth officially becomes stranger than fanfiction.

On their date, Marcus quickly realizes he wants more from April than a one-time publicity stunt. But when he discovers she’s Unapologetic Lavinia Stan, his closest fandom friend, he has one more huge secret to keep from her.

With love and Marcus’s career on the line, can the two of them stop hiding once and for all, or will a match made in fandom end up prematurely cancelled?]]>
409 Olivia Dade 0063005549 Lucy 0 3.64 2020 Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)
author: Olivia Dade
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2021/12/18
date added: 2021/12/31
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The Alchemist 865 197 Paulo Coelho 0061122416 Lucy 0 non-blog 3.85 1988 The Alchemist
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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All of the Above 25399512 A funny and moving love story about friends, first loves and self-discovery by Queen of Teen 2014.

When sixteen-year-old Toria Bland arrives at her new school she needs to work out who her friends are in a crazy whirl of worry, exam pressure and anxiety over fitting in. Things start looking up when Toria meets the funny and foul-mouthed Polly, who's the coolest girl that Toria has ever seen. Polly and the rest of the 'alternative' kids take Toria under their wing. And that's when she meets the irresistible Nico Mancini, lead singer of a local band - and it's instalove at first sight! Toria likes Nico, Nico likes Toria, but then there's Polly ... love and friendship have a funny way of going round in circles.]]>
319 Juno Dawson 1471404676 Lucy 0 3.84 2015 All of the Above
author: Juno Dawson
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2015/08/08
date added: 2021/12/17
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True Story 58892144 A propulsive, dazzlingly original novel about the fifteen-year fallout from a poisonous high school rumor, exploring how stories from the past can come to define who we are.

A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she cannot tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the things that happened while I was asleep."

Back in 1999, Nick Brothers and his high school lacrosse team return for their senior year in a well-to-do Baltimore suburb as the reigning state champs. The afterglow of their big win is bound to last until graduation; not even the pressure of college applications can get in the way of their fun. But when a private school girl attempts suicide in the wake of one of the team's "legendary" parties, and a rumor begins to circulate that two of Nick's teammates sexually assaulted her, it seems like it might ruin everything--until the team circles the wagons, casts doubt on the story, and the town moves on.

But not everyone does. Fifteen years later, four people--Alice, Nick, a documentary filmmaker, and a wealthy entrepreneur--remain haunted by the roles they played, the things they still don't understand, and how the story has shaped their lives. In sections told from different points of view, each more propulsive than the last, the layers of mystery are gradually peeled back as we barrel toward the truth of what really happened that night . . . and what came after. At once a compulsive page-turner and a thought-provoking exploration of issues both timely and timeless, True Story marks the debut of a phenomenal new voice in fiction.]]>
400 Kate Reed Petty 1787478475 Lucy 0 3.49 2020 True Story
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name: Lucy
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<![CDATA[Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)]]> 10335308
Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you've come to the right book, mostly!

In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door - not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.]]>
222 Mindy Kaling 0307886263 Lucy 0 3.86 2011 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
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Whisper Network 41555931
But the world has changed, and the women are watching this promotion differently. This time, when they find out Ames is making an inappropriate move on a colleague, they aren’t willing to let it go. This time, they’ve decided enough is enough.

Sloane and her colleagues� decision to take a stand sets in motion a catastrophic shift in the office. Lies will be uncovered. Secrets will be exposed. And not everyone will survive. All of their lives—as women, colleagues, mothers, wives, friends, even adversaries—will change dramatically as a result.

"If only you had listened to us,� they tell us on page one of Chandler Baker's Whisper Network, “none of this would have happened."]]>
352 Chandler Baker 1250319471 Lucy 0 3.56 2019 Whisper Network
author: Chandler Baker
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2019
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The Devil Makes Three 58897310
Forced to work together, Tess and Eliot have to find a way to re-trap the devil before he kills everyone they know and love, including, increasingly, each other. And compared to what the devil has in store for them, school stress suddenly doesn't seem so bad after all. This is a fast-paced YA crossover/gothic horror debut, with a strong romance and an]]>
389 Tori Bovalino 1789099676 Lucy 0 3.52 2021 The Devil Makes Three
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Ace of Spades 42603984
Welcome to Niveus Private Academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. Until now. Because anonymous texter, Aces, is bringing two students' dark secrets to light.

Talented musician Devon buries himself in rehearsals, but he can't escape the spotlight when his private photos go public. Head girl Chiamaka isn't afraid to get what she wants, but soon everyone will know the price she has paid for power.

Someone is out to get them both. Someone who holds all the aces. And they're planning much more than a high-school game...]]>
470 Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 1474967531 Lucy 5 4.15 2021 Ace of Spades
author: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
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<![CDATA[As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)]]> 52814139 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES
The highly-anticipated finale to the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series, the instant bestsellers that read like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end of this mystery series, you'll never think of good girls the same way again...

Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?

Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.

Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . .]]>
565 Holly Jackson 140529860X Lucy 0 4.24 2021 As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)
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Afterlove 48656848
Ash Persaud is about to become a reaper in the afterlife, but she is determined to see her first love Poppy Morgan again, the only thing that separates them is death.

Car headlights.

The last thing Ash hears is the snap of breaking glass as the windscreen hits her and breaks into a million pieces like stars.

But she made it, she's still here. Or is she?

This New Year's Eve, Ash gets an RSVP from the afterlife she can't decline: to join a clan of fierce girl reapers who take the souls of the city's dead to await their fate.

But Ash can't forget her first love, Poppy, and she will do anything to see her again... even if it means they only get a few more days together. Dead or alive...


NOT EVEN DEATH CAN TEAR THEM APART.]]>
389 Tanya Byrne 1444955950 Lucy 5 chooseya-s-recommendations 3.98 2021 Afterlove
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True Crime Story 56075879 'A triumph. Dazzlingly original' Sunday Times'Riveting and relentless...A unique story, brilliantly told' Terry Hayes'Brilliant, compelling and original' Steve Cavanagh'Highly original and mischievous' John Boyne______________'What happens to those girls who go missing? What happens to the Zoe Nolans of the world?'In the early hours of Saturday 17 December 2011, Zoe Nolan, a nineteen-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months.She was never seen again.Seven years after her disappearance, struggling writer Evelyn Mitchell finds herself drawn into the mystery. Through interviews with Zoe's closest friends and family, she begins piecing together what really happened in 2011. But where some versions of events overlap, aligning perfectly with one another, others stand in stark contrast, giving rise to troubling inconsistencies.Shaken by revelations of Zoe's secret life, and stalked by a figure from the shadows, Evelyn turns to crime writer Joseph Knox to help make sense of a case where everyone has something to hide.Zoe Nolan may be missing presumed dead, but her story is only just beginning.______________Readers love TRUE CRIME combines the best parts of true crime, fiction and mystery. Superb''My favourite read of 2021...fascinating, perplexing and bloody brilliant''I've been looking for something different and new in the crime genre. Here it is']]> 448 Joseph Knox Lucy 0 4.06 2021 True Crime Story
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<![CDATA[Winter's Orbit (Winter's Orbit, #1)]]> 53205912
But when it comes to light that Prince Taam's death may not have been an accident, and that Jainan himself may be a suspect, the unlikely pair must overcome their misgivings and learn to trust one another as they navigate the perils of the Iskat court, try to solve a murder, and prevent an interplanetary war... all while dealing with their growing feelings for each other.]]>
432 Everina Maxwell 1250758831 Lucy 0 4.00 2021 Winter's Orbit (Winter's Orbit, #1)
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Educated 40060637
She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn’t exist.

As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far. If there was still a way home.

EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.]]>
384 Tara Westover 0099511029 Lucy 0 non-blog, non-fiction 4.46 2018 Educated
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<![CDATA[You Don't Have to Say You Love Me]]> 8471815 560 Sarra Manning 0552163295 Lucy 0 non-blog 3.95 2011 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
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average rating: 3.95
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Malibu Rising 53404195 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six.

A lifetime holding it together.
One party will bring it crashing down.

Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.

The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud-because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he's been inseparable since birth.

Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can't stop thinking about promised she'll be there.

And Kit has a couple secrets of her own-including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.

By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family's generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.]]>
369 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1786331527 Lucy 0 currently-reading 4.13 2021 Malibu Rising
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The Cousins 56802577
Their parents are all clear on one point—not going is not an option. This could be the opportunity to get back into Grandmother’s good graces. But when the cousins arrive on the island, it’s immediately clear that she has different plans for them. And the longer they stay, the more they realize how mysterious—and dark—their family’s past is.

The entire Story family has secrets. Whatever pulled them apart years ago isn’t over—and this summer, the cousins will learn everything.]]>
325 Karen M. McManus Lucy 0 3.56 2020 The Cousins
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<![CDATA[Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)]]> 43884209
� Enjoy a drunken night out.
� Ride a motorcycle.
� Go camping.
� Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
� Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
� And... do something bad.

But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.

Redford ‘Red� Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.

But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior…]]>
384 Talia Hibbert 0062941208 Lucy 0 3.79 2019 Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
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Rescue Me 54215442
Margot and Will don’t get off to the best of starts: he thinks Margot is demanding and needy and Just So Much. And she thinks Will is emotionally unavailable, slightly brittle and very mistrustful. They’re both right.

But the more they bicker, the worse Blossom behaves, and they realise they have to form some sort of truce in order to dog-parent (or “pawrent� as Margot calls it, to which Will rolls his eyes) her together. It’s almost as if Blossom has plans of her own…]]>
400 Sarra Manning 1529336554 Lucy 0 3.77 2021 Rescue Me
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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda 5936
"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, lionized during his lifetime as "the people's poet." This selection of Neruda's poetry, the most comprehensive single volume available in English, presents nearly six hundred poems. Scores of them are in new and sometimes multiple translations, and many accompanied by the Spanish original. In his introduction, Ilan Stavans situates Neruda in his native milieu as well as in a contemporary English-language one, and a group of new translations by leading poets testifies to Neruda's enduring, vibrant legacy among English-speaking writers and readers today.]]>
1040 Pablo Neruda 0374529604 Lucy 0 4.44 1951 The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
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<![CDATA[Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair]]> 5932 The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, and the subject of Pablo Larraín's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring Gael García Bernal.]]> 60 Pablo Neruda 0143039962 Lucy 5 4.27 1924 Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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<![CDATA[A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)]]> 53138095
The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other.

Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts.

Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other's arms.]]>
757 Sarah J. Maas 168119628X Lucy 0 4.44 2021 A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
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<![CDATA[A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)]]> 23766634
She has left the Night Court - and her High Lord - and is playing a deadly game of deceit. In the Spring Court, Tamlin is making deals with the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees, and Feyre is determined to uncover his plans. But to do so she must weave a web of lies, and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well.

As mighty armies grapple for power, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords - and hunt for allies in unexpected places.

BUT WHILE WAR RAGES, IT IS HER HEART THAT WILL FACE THE GREATEST BATTLE.

THE THRILLING THIRD BOOK IN #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FANTASY SERIES FROM SARAH J. MAAS.]]>
705 Sarah J. Maas 1408857901 Lucy 0 4.41 2017 A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
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<![CDATA[A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)]]> 16096824
Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.]]>
419 Sarah J. Maas 1619634449 Lucy 0 4.17 2015 A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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<![CDATA[Sunburn: The Unofficial History of the Sun Newspaper in 99 Headlines]]> 52220676 'This book was a delight. Funny, scathing and witty' Ian Dunt

You should buy this book if : a) you dislike the Sun, but have never actually read it to know why and/or b) you're still not sure how we got into this mess.

Using his famed on-the-nose commentary, Twitter legend James Felton has dissected 99 of the most outlandish stories the Sun (for a long time the biggest-selling British newspaper) has run since it became a tabloid in 1969, hoping to answer once and for all whether the press has reflected - or manipulated - the British people over the last 50 years.

joke-riddled and illustrated analyses of the Sun's most infamous stories about celebrities, war, royals, crime, the LGBTQ+ community, migrants, the EU, politics, bacon sandwiches and page 3.

Not A blindfold. We suggest reading through your fingers instead.

'James Felton makes me laugh like a bellend' Robert Webb
'James Felton makes me laugh every day' Marina Hyde
'James never fails to make me laugh and then think, then laugh some more' Dermot O'Leary]]>
336 James Felton 0751580783 Lucy 4 3.92 2020 Sunburn: The Unofficial History of the Sun Newspaper in 99 Headlines
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The Yearbook 55152533 The dramas, the traumas, the rumours - it's time to expose it all... The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Mean Girls in this scathingly funny and relatable high-school takedown from the queen of UKYA.

Most likely to...be forgotten
Working on the school newspaper, Paige is used to dealing with fake stories. How popular girl Grace is a such an amazing person (lie). How Laura steals people's boyfriends (lie). How her own family are so perfect (lie).

Now Grace and friends have picked their "best" high-school moments for Paige to put in the all-important Yearbook. And they're not just fake. They're poison.

But Paige has had enough of all the lies in her life. And with the help of Elijah - the only boy who could ever understand her - she's going to reveal the truth.]]>
448 Holly Bourne 1474966829 Lucy 0 4.14 2021 The Yearbook
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name: Lucy
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The Outrage 56645293 "You know, when you live in a time of progress, it seems that progress is the only possible way. The idea that everything we'd gained, all of those hard-won rights, could be taken away from us, and that open minds could be closed again? But then the Outrage happened."

Welcome to England, where the Protectorate enforces the Public Good. Here, there are rules for everything - what to eat, what to wear, what to do, what to say, what to read, what to think, who to obey, who to hate, who to love. Your safety is assured, so long as you follow the rules.

Gabriel is a natural born rule-breaker. And his biggest crime of all? Being gay.

Gabriel knows his sexuality must be kept secret from all but his closest friends, not only to protect himself, but to protect his boyfriend. Because Eric isn't just the boy who has stolen Gabriel's heart. He's the son of the chief inspector at Degenerate Investigations ­­­- the man who poses the single biggest threat to Gabriel's life.

And the Protectorate are experts at exposing secrets.]]>
416 William Hussey 1474966187 Lucy 0 4.05 2021 The Outrage
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<![CDATA[Far From Perfect (The Valentines, #2)]]> 51236702 Be yourself but, you know, someone else . . .

Enthusiastic but not desperate; calm but not dull; funny but not try-hard; sparky but not crazy; feisty but not aggressive; beautiful but relatable; elegant but not icy; confident but not arrogant; feminine but not girly; nice but not boring.

Faith Valentine has it all � fame, money and extraordinary beauty. But what she wants more than anything is a quiet life away from the cameras. Except nobody ever asks Faith what she wants, and her family’s expectations are crushing her.

The world thinks she’s perfect, but is there is more to perfection than meets the eye?]]>
449 Holly Smale 0008254184 Lucy 0 3.92 2020 Far From Perfect (The Valentines, #2)
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The Murder of Graham Catton 49123346 An electrifying new thriller of true crime and deadly secrets from the acclaimed author of The Furies.

Who do you believe?

The Wife

Hannah Catton: bereaved wife, doting mother, clinical psychologist; says she remembers nothing of the night her husband was killed.

The Suspect

Mike Philips: a 19-year-old repeat offender whose clothing was found at the scene, but who has repeatedly protested his innocence over the 10 years since he was imprisoned.

The Journalist

Anna Byers: host of the famous CONVICTION podcast that has seen numerous prison sentences overturned. She believes the wrong man is in jail, do you?

Someone knows more about the murder than they’re telling. It may have been Hannah’s husband who was murdered, but listeners are about to become judge, jury, and executioner on the new season of CONVICTION.]]>
400 Katie Lowe 0008289042 Lucy 4 3.79 2021 The Murder of Graham Catton
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The Recovery of Rose Gold 52574213 'SET TO BE NEXT YEAR'S BIGGEST THRILLER' Stylist

A chilling exploration into obsession, reconciliation and revenge in 2020's must-read novel.

Rose Gold Watts believed she was sick for eighteen years.

She thought she needed the feeding tube, the surgeries, the wheelchair . . .

Turns out her mum, Patty, is a really good liar.

After five years in prison Patty Watts is finally free. All she wants is to put old grievances behind her, reconcile with her daughter - and care for her new infant grandson. When Rose Gold agrees to have Patty move in, it seems their relationship is truly on the mend.

But Rose Gold knows her mother. Patty won't rest until she has her daughter back under her thumb. Which is inconvenient because Rose Gold wants to be free of Patty. Forever.

Only one Watts will get what she wants.

Will it be Patty or Rose Gold?

Mother, or daughter?

'One of the most captivating and disturbing thrillers I've read this year. An astonishing debut' Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife

'This book has it all - a killer premise, twisty plotting, crisp writing and compelling characters. Dazzling, dark and utterly delicious' J P Delaney, bestselling author of The Girl Before

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349 Stephanie Wrobel Lucy 0 3.82 2020 The Recovery of Rose Gold
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Girl A 52957076
Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents� House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped. When her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can’t run from her past any longer. Together with her sister, Evie, Lex intends to turn the House of Horrors into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her six siblings � and with the childhood they shared.]]>
413 Abigail Dean 0008389055 Lucy 0 3.63 2021 Girl A
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Mexican Gothic 53152636
Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.

Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.

And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.]]>
320 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 0525620788 Lucy 0 3.66 2020 Mexican Gothic
author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2021/06/09
date added: 2021/06/16
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Paperweight 24917415
Struggling to deal with her brother's death and a past she refuses to confront, Stevie knows she has problems. But she's still furious about the fact that she's been packed off to a health clinic, in the middle of nowhere, where mobile phones are banned and communication with the outside world is strictly by permission only. The regimented and obtrusive nature of the clinic and its staff is torture to the deeply private, obstinate Stevie - and don't even get her started on the other 'inmates'. All she wants is to be left alone...

But as Stevie is about to find out, life is full of surprises. And she will prove herself stronger than she knows - even when her past finally catches her up in the most shocking and brutal way possible.]]>
287 Meg Haston 1471404560 Lucy 0 3.91 2015 Paperweight
author: Meg Haston
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2015/05/24
date added: 2021/05/17
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The Ravens (The Ravens, #1) 55922699 New York Times best-selling authors Kass Morgan and Dainelle Paigecomes a thrilling, dark contemporary fantasy about a prestigious sorority of witches and two girls caught up in its world of sinister magic and betrayals.]]> 400 Kass Morgan 1529363829 Lucy 0 3.64 2020 The Ravens (The Ravens, #1)
author: Kass Morgan
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/18
date added: 2021/01/22
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<![CDATA[The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)]]> 53063341 She came from nothing.

Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why.

They had everything.

Now she must move into the mansion she's inherited. It's filled with secrets and codes, and the old man's surviving relatives - a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got 'their' money.

Now there's only one rule: winner takes all.

Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange family is playing. But just how far will they go to keep their fortune?

An utterly addictive and twisty thriller, full of dark family secrets and deadly stakes. Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out.]]>
372 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Lucy 0 4.11 2020 The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/09
date added: 2021/01/10
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<![CDATA[Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)]]> 26836052
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price - and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone.

A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction - if they don't kill each other first.]]>
16 Leigh Bardugo Lucy 0 4.19 2015 Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Untold (The Lynburn Legacy, #2)]]> 15801763 It's time to choose sides....

On the surface, Sorry-in-the-Vale is a sleepy English town. But Kami Glass knows the truth. Sorry-in-the-Vale is full of magic. In the old days, the Lynburn family ruled with fear, terrifying the people into submission in order to kill for blood and power. Now the Lynburns are back, and Rob Lynburn is gathering sorcerers so that the town can return to the old ways.

But Rob and his followers aren’t the only sorcerers in town. A decision must be made: pay the blood sacrifice, or fight. For Kami, this means more than just choosing between good and evil. With her link to Jared Lynburn severed, she’s now free to love anyone she chooses. But who should that be?

A darkly humorous take on Gothic romance, Sarah Rees Brennan's Lynburn Legacy weaves together the tale of a heroine desperate to protect those she loves, two boys hoping to be saved, and the magical forces that will shape their destiny.]]>
336 Sarah Rees Brennan 0857078097 Lucy 0 to-read 3.91 2013 Untold (The Lynburn Legacy, #2)
author: Sarah Rees Brennan
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Judged (The Blackhart Legacy, #3)]]> 24105936
Glow, a fae-created drug, is rapidly going viral and the suppliers have to be shut down. Teaming up with Aiden and Dante, Kit follows leads across London, tracking down dealers. They stir up trouble, making themselves a target for the gang they're trying to stop.

In the Otherwhere, Thorn stumbles across a secret that could destroy both the human and Fae worlds. The Veil that separates our human world from the fae realms is weakening and the goddess is dying. And if she dies and the Veil fails, madness and chaos will wreak unstoppable havoc upon both lands.

Thorn turns to the only person he knows who'll be able to help him: Kit. Torn between working the Glow case and her loyalty for the young prince, Kit is propelled headlong into a world of danger. She faces enemies from both the Otherwhere and our world. And as the stakes are raised, the consequence of failure for both Kit and Thorn, and two realms, could be devastating.]]>
396 Liz de Jager 1447247701 Lucy 0 to-read 4.14 2016 Judged (The Blackhart Legacy, #3)
author: Liz de Jager
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)]]> 25394092
Nothing dead can be trusted.

Now the endgame has begun.

Nothing living is safe.

Dreams and nightmares are converging. Love and loss are inseparable. And the quest refuses to be pinned to a path.]]>
438 Maggie Stiefvater 140713664X Lucy 0 4.30 2016 The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
author: Maggie Stiefvater
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/01/06
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Giant Days 39507199 Giant Days follows the hilarious and heartfelt misadventures of three university first-years: Daisy, the innocent home-schooled girl; Susan, the sardonic wit; and Esther, the vivacious drama queen. While the girls seem very different, they become fast friends during their first week of university. And it's a good thing they do, because in the giant adventure that is college, a friend who has your back is key--something Daisy discovers when she gets a little too involved in her extracurricular club, the Yogic Brethren of Zoise. When she starts acting strange and life around campus gets even stranger (missing students, secret handshakes, monogrammed robes everywhere . . .), Esther and Susan decide it's up to them to investigate the weirdness and save their friend.
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288 Non Pratt 1419731262 Lucy 0 3.68 2018 Giant Days
author: Non Pratt
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/01/05
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 26074156 New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.�

In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,� Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.]]>
306 Roxane Gay 0062362593 Lucy 5 read-in-2017, non-fiction 4.17 2017 Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
author: Roxane Gay
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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Devoted 22718682
She prays every day, attends Calvary Christian Church with her family, helps care for her five younger siblings, dresses modestly, and prepares herself to be a wife and mother who serves the Lord with joy.

But Rachel is curious about the world her family has turned away from, and increasingly finds that neither the church nor her homeschool education has the answers she craves. Rachel has always found solace in her beliefs, but now she can’t shake the feeling that her devotion might destroy her soul.]]>
336 Jennifer Mathieu 1596439114 Lucy 0 3.98 2015 Devoted
author: Jennifer Mathieu
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft]]> 36426163
Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

Glinda the Good Witch. Elphaba the Wicked Witch. Willow. Sabrina. Gemma Doyle. The Mayfair Witches. Ursula the Sea Witch. Morgan le Fey. The three weird sisters from Macbeth.

History tells us women accused of witchcraft were often outsiders: educated, independent, unmarried, unwilling to fall in line with traditional societal expectations.

Bold. Powerful. Rebellious.

A bruja’s traditional love spell has unexpected results. A witch’s healing hands begin to take life instead of giving it when she ignores her attraction to a fellow witch. In a terrifying future, women are captured by a cabal of men crying witchcraft and the one true witch among them must fight to free them all. In a desolate past, three orphaned sisters prophesize for a murderous king. Somewhere in the present, a teen girl just wants to kiss a boy without causing a hurricane.

From good witches to bad witches, to witches who are a bit of both, this is an anthology of diverse witchy tales from a collection of diverse, feminist authors. The collective strength of women working together—magically or mundanely--has long frightened society, to the point that women’s rights are challenged, legislated against, and denied all over the world. Toil & Trouble delves deep into the truly diverse mythology of witchcraft from many cultures and feminist points of view, to create modern and unique tales of witchery that have yet to be explored.]]>
405 Jessica Spotswood 1335016279 Lucy 0 3.66 2018 Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
author: Jessica Spotswood
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/10/19
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Slay (Slay, #1) 38619777
When Milly, the lonely daughter of a world-famous opera singer, arrives home to discover that her mum has been taken over by something very evil, she finds herself in mortal danger. But the last people she expects to rescue her are the hottest boy band on the planet�

Enter SLAY: playing kickass gigs in the spotlight, and saving the world from demons in the shadows� Suddenly, Milly’s on the road with JD, Tom, Niv, Zek and Connor, racing against the clock to stop the demons who killed her mum� One thing’s for sure, it’s going to be a hell of a show!]]>
304 Kim Curran 1474932312 Lucy 0 3.70 Slay (Slay, #1)
author: Kim Curran
name: Lucy
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Theatrical 34615412
Gorgeously fresh, funny and commercial YA romance from the author of Unconventional, and The Last Summer of Us.]]>
442 Maggie Harcourt 1474940684 Lucy 0 3.86 2018 Theatrical
author: Maggie Harcourt
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/07/18
date added: 2018/10/18
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Fated (Slated, #0) 40126081
Sam's cosy life as daughter of the Deputy Prime Minister is about to end. These are turbulent times. Borders have closed and protests are turning violent. The government blames the country's youth, and is cracking down hard. Mobile phones are blocked, gatherings are banned and dissent is brutally crushed.

Sam is torn between family loyalty and doing what is right. when she meets Ava and Lucas her mind is made up.

One girl, one choice. She can make a difference: she must. Even if her life - and her heart - are on the line ...]]>
458 Teri Terry 1408350661 Lucy 0 4.15 2019 Fated (Slated, #0)
author: Teri Terry
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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The Cows 32594947 A piece of meat; born to breed; past its sell-by-date; one of the herd.

Women don’t have to fall into a stereotype.

The Cows is a powerful novel about three women. In all the noise of modern life, each needs to find their own voice.
It’s about friendship and being female.
It’s bold and brilliant.
It’s searingly perceptive.
It's about never following the herd.
And everyone is going to be talking about it.]]>
400 Dawn O'Porter 0008126038 Lucy 0 3.79 2017 The Cows
author: Dawn O'Porter
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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Tradition 36373518
Jules Devereux just wants to keep her head down, avoid distractions, and get into the right college, so she can leave Fullbrook and its old-boy social codes behind. She wants freedom, but ex-boyfriends and ex-best friends are determined to keep her in place.

Jamie Baxter feels like an imposter at Fullbrook, but the hockey scholarship that got him in has given him a chance to escape his past and fulfill the dreams of his parents and coaches, whose mantra rings in his ears: Don’t disappoint us.

When Jamie and Jules meet, they recognize in each other a similar instinct for survival, but at a school where girls in the student handbook are rated by their looks, athletes stack hockey pucks in dorm room windows like notches on a bedpost, and school-sponsored dances push first year girls out into the night with senior boys, the stakes for safe sex, real love, and true friendship couldn’t be higher.

As Jules and Jamie’s lives intertwine, and the pressures to play by the rules and remain silent about the school’s secrets intensify, they see Fullbrook for what it really is. That tradition, a word Fullbrook hides behind, can be ugly, even violent. Ultimately, Jules and Jamie are faced with the difficult question: can they stand together against classmates—and an institution—who believe they can do no wrong?]]>
342 Brendan Kiely 1481480340 Lucy 0 3.45 2018 Tradition
author: Brendan Kiely
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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Dramas of a Teenage Heiress 40959478 A brand new laugh-out-loud series from rising star Katy Birchall, author of the much-loved It Girl series. Perfect for readers of 10+ and fans of Geek Girl, Super Awkward and channel 4's Derry Girls.

1. If anyone was going to be photographed FIRST holding that handbag, it was going to be Fritz.
2. And if it was a little too big for Fritz, then it was going to be ME.
3. And if it wasn't me, then maybe the Queen or Beyoncé or someone.
4. Whoever it was, it was not going to be gossip columnist Nancy Rose . . .

When a scurrilous journalist writes a very mean article about hotel heiress Flick Royale after 'an unfortunate incident' over a handbag designed for her pet daschund Fritz, she is mortified. Especially when it goes viral! She has to find a way to show the world that she's not the spoilt brat she's been made out to be.

But with not enough followers on even Fritz's Instagram account, let alone her own, she needs to find a bigger crowd to tell the real story to. But how?

Find out in this brilliant sequel in the Hotel Royale series.]]>
352 Katy Birchall 1405286512 Lucy 4 3.87 Dramas of a Teenage Heiress
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average rating: 3.87
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The Wives 38350073 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Weisberger returns with a novel starring one of her favorite characters from The Devil Wears Prada—Emily Charlton, first assistant to Miranda Priestly, now a highly successful image consultant who’s just landed the client of a lifetime.

Welcome to Greenwich, CT, where the lawns and the women are perfectly manicured, the Tito’s and sodas are extra strong, and everyone has something to say about the infamous new neighbor.

Let’s be clear: Emily Charlton, Miranda Priestly’s ex-assistant, does not do the suburbs. She’s working in Hollywood as an image consultant to the stars, but recently, Emily’s lost a few clients. She’s hopeless with social media. The new guard is nipping at her heels. She needs a big opportunity, and she needs it now.

Karolina Hartwell is as A-list as they come. She’s the former face of L’Oreal. A mega-supermodel recognized the world over. And now, the gorgeous wife of the newly elected senator from New York, Graham, who also has his eye on the presidency. It’s all very Kennedy-esque, right down to the public philandering and Karolina’s arrest for a DUI—with a Suburban full of other people’s children.

Miriam is the link between them. Until recently she was a partner at one of Manhattan’s most prestigious law firms. But when Miriam moves to Greenwich and takes time off to spend with her children, she never could have predicted that being stay-at-home mom in an uber-wealthy town could have more pitfalls than a stressful legal career.

Emily, Karolina, and Miriam make an unlikely trio, but they desperately need each other. Together, they’ll navigate the social landmines of life in America’s favorite suburb on steroids, revealing the truths—and the lies—that simmer just below the glittering surface. With her signature biting style, Lauren Weisberger offers a dazzling look into another sexy, over-the-top world, where nothing is as it appears.]]>
416 Lauren Weisberger 0007569289 Lucy 0 3.78 2018 The Wives
author: Lauren Weisberger
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/10/03
date added: 2018/10/18
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<![CDATA[Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)]]> 28170940 “I seen a kid killed…He strangled it, up by the horse.�

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.

Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott—once his assistant, now a partner in the agency—set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.

And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike’s own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been—Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that.]]>
650 Robert Galbraith 0751572853 Lucy 0 4.19 2018 Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
author: Robert Galbraith
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/09/28
date added: 2018/10/18
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Cross Her Heart 37486235 341 Sarah Pinborough 0062856790 Lucy 0 3.62 2018 Cross Her Heart
author: Sarah Pinborough
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/09/18
date added: 2018/10/18
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Alex, Approximately 34927042
Faced with doubts (what if he’s a creep in real life—or worse?), Bailey doesn’t tell Alex she’s moved to his hometown. Or that she’s landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Or that she’s being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Roth—a.k.a. her new arch-nemesis. But life is whole lot messier than the movies, especially when Bailey discovers that tricky fine line between hate, love, and whatever-it-is she’s starting to feel for Porter.

And as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter. The choice is both simpler and more complicated than she realizes, because Porter Roth is hiding a secret of his own: Porter is Alex…Approximately.

In this delightfully charming teen spin on You’ve Got Mail, the one guy Bailey Rydell can’t stand is actually the boy of her dreams—she just doesn’t know it yet.]]>
388 Jenn Bennett 1534404945 Lucy 5 3.95 2017 Alex, Approximately
author: Jenn Bennett
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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The Lottery and Other Stories 89723 The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly horrible--and power as a storyteller.]]> 302 Shirley Jackson 0374529531 Lucy 0 4.05 1949 The Lottery and Other Stories
author: Shirley Jackson
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1949
rating: 0
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Tyler Johnson Was Here 35604682
The next day, Tyler has gone missing, and it's up to Marvin to find him. But when Tyler is found dead, a video leaked online tells an even more chilling story: Tyler has been shot and killed by a police officer. Terrified as his mother unravels and mourning a brother who is now a hashtag, Marvin must learn what justice and freedom really mean.]]>
304 Jay Coles 0316440779 Lucy 0 3.87 2018 Tyler Johnson Was Here
author: Jay Coles
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/10/17
date added: 2018/10/18
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Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1) 24974996 Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she boldly tackles American race relations in this stunning debut.

Justyce McAllister is top of his class and set for the Ivy League—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. And despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out.

Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up—way up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack.]]>
224 Nic Stone Lucy 5 4.33 2017 Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
author: Nic Stone
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2018/09/15
date added: 2018/10/18
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The Cry 17846926 He's gone. And telling the truth won't bring him back...

When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world.

Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other.

Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what will it take to make things right?

The Cry is a dark psychological thriller with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart and characters who will keep you guessing on every page.]]>
307 Helen Fitzgerald 0571287700 Lucy 0 3.71 2013 The Cry
author: Helen Fitzgerald
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/10/18
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Savage Island 35432436
A Red Eye horror novel for teens, this gripping YA thriller story is full of fast-paced action.]]>
416 Bryony Pearce 1847158277 Lucy 0 3.66 2018 Savage Island
author: Bryony Pearce
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/04/18
date added: 2018/10/18
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The Island 39982246
When a school summer trip is offered, Link can think of nothing worse than spending voluntary time with his worst tormentors. But when his parents say he can only leave Osney School - forever - if he goes on the trip, Link decides to endure it for the ultimate prize. But this particular trip will require a very special sort of endurance. The saying goes 'No man is an island' - but what if on that island is a group of teenagers, none of whom particularly like each other? When oppressive heat, hunger and thirst start to bite, everyone's true colours will be revealed. Let the battle commence . . .

From the acclaimed author of S.T.A.G.S.]]>
304 M.A. Bennett 1471407535 Lucy 0 3.20 2018 The Island
author: M.A. Bennett
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.20
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture]]> 35068524 368 Roxane Gay 0062413503 Lucy 0 4.43 2018 Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
author: Roxane Gay
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/08/09
date added: 2018/10/18
shelves: authors-whose-writing-inspires-me, non-fiction, read-in-2018, tackles-serious-issues
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The Good Immigrant 28668534
Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist�? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go ‘home� to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick ‘Other�?

Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay and what it means to be ‘other� in a country that doesn’t seem to want you, doesn’t truly accept you � however many generations you’ve been here � but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms.

Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants � job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees � until, by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over and become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary and � most importantly � real.]]>
272 Nikesh Shukla 178352295X Lucy 5 non-fiction 4.31 2016 The Good Immigrant
author: Nikesh Shukla
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2018/08/31
date added: 2018/10/18
shelves: non-fiction
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The Opposite of Innocent 36099120 Poignant and chilling by turns, The Opposite of Innocent is award-winning author Sonya Sones’s most gripping novel in verse yet. It’s the story of a girl named Lily, who’s been crushing on a man named Luke, a friend of her parents, ever since she can remember.

Luke has been away for two endless years, but he’s finally returning today. Lily was only twelve when he left. But now, at fourteen, she feels transformed. She can’t wait to see how Luke will react when he sees the new her. And when her mother tells her that Luke will be staying with them for a while, in the bedroom right next to hers, her heart nearly stops.

Having Luke back is better than Lily could have ever dreamed. His lingering looks set Lily on fire. Is she just imagining them? But then, when they’re alone, he kisses her. Then he kisses her again. Lily’s friends think anyone his age who wants to be with a fourteen-year-old must be really messed up. Maybe even dangerous. But Luke would never do anything to hurt her...would he?

In this powerful tale of a terrifying leap into young adulthood, readers will accompany Lily on her harrowing journey from hopelessness to hope.]]>
272 Sonya Sones 0062370332 Lucy 4 3.71 2018 The Opposite of Innocent
author: Sonya Sones
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2018/07/25
date added: 2018/10/18
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How Do You Like Me Now? 34538386 'Turning thirty is like playing musical chairs. The music stops, and everyone just marries whoever they happen to be sitting on.'

Who the f*ck is Tori Bailey?

There's no doubt that Tori is winning the game of life. A straight-talking, bestselling author, she's inspired millions of women around the world with her self-help memoir. And she has the perfect relationship to boot.

But Tori Bailey has been living a lie.

Her long-term boyfriend won't even talk about marriage, but everyone around her is getting engaged and having babies. And when her best friend Dee - her plus one, the only person who understands the madness - falls in love, suddenly Tori's in terrifying danger of being left behind.

When the world tells you to be one thing and turning thirty brings with it a loud ticking clock, it takes courage to walk your own path.

It's time for Tori to practice what she's preached, but the question is: is she brave enough?

The debut adult novel by bestselling author Holly Bourne is a blisteringly funny, honest and moving exploration of love, friendship and navigating the emotional rollercoaster of your thirties.]]>
368 Holly Bourne 1473667720 Lucy 0 non-blog, read-in-2018 3.69 2018 How Do You Like Me Now?
author: Holly Bourne
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/07/01
date added: 2018/10/18
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<![CDATA[Bookshop Girl (Bookshop ​Girl, #1)]]> 36642932 A hilarious tale of female friendship, bookshops and fighting for a cause - perfect for fans of Holly Bourne and Louise Rennison.

Bennett's Bookshop has always been a haven for sixteen-year-old Paige Turner. It's a place where she can escape from her sleepy hometown, hang out with her best friend, Holly, and also earn some money.

But, like so many bookshops, Bennett's has become a 'casualty of the high street' - it's strapped for cash and going to be torn down. Paige is determined to save it but mobilising a small town like Greysworth is no mean feat.

Time is ticking - but that's not the only problem Paige has. How is she going to fend off the attractions of beautiful fellow artist, Blaine? And, more importantly, will his anarchist ways make or break her bookshop campaign?

Written by debut author and Foyles bookseller Chloe Coles, this is the first in a new laugh-out-loud and sparky teen series that will make you want to rush out and start your own bookshop campaign!]]>
240 Chloe Coles 147140711X Lucy 0 3.33 2018 Bookshop Girl (Bookshop ​Girl, #1)
author: Chloe Coles
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/07/23
date added: 2018/10/18
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<![CDATA[Leah on the Offbeat (Simonverse, #3)]]> 31180248 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst.

When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon.

So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.]]>
352 Becky Albertalli 0062643800 Lucy 5 3.79 2018 Leah on the Offbeat (Simonverse, #3)
author: Becky Albertalli
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2018/05/12
date added: 2018/10/18
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Almost Love 35958295 If it doesn't hurt, it's not love: the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of Asking for It. Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Jodi Picoult.

When Sarah falls for Matthew, she falls hard.

So it doesn't matter that he's twenty years older. That he sees her only in secret. That, slowly but surely, she's sacrificing everything else in her life to be with him.

Sarah's friends are worried. Her father can't understand how she could allow herself to be used like this. And she's on the verge of losing her job.

But Sarah can't help it. She is addicted to being desired by Matthew.

And love is supposed to hurt.

Isn't it?]]>
314 Louise O'Neill 1784298867 Lucy 0 3.56 2018 Almost Love
author: Louise O'Neill
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/03/18
date added: 2018/10/18
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Broken Things 37859646 It’s been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods.

Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn the three girls had imagined themselves into the magical world where their fantasies became twisted, even deadly.

The only thing is: they didn’t do it.

On the anniversary of Summer’s death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and Brynn back together once again. But as the lines begin to blur between past and present and fiction and reality, the girls must confront what really happened in the woods all those years ago—no matter how monstrous.]]>
408 Lauren Oliver 0062224131 Lucy 0 3.56 2013 Broken Things
author: Lauren Oliver
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at: 2018/04/30
date added: 2018/10/18
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Black-Eyed Susans 23746004 For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense.

I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories.
I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans.
The lucky one.

As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,� the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row.

Now, almost two decades later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. In the desolate cold of February, she is shocked to discover a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans—a summertime bloom—just outside her bedroom window. Terrified at the implications—that she sent the wrong man to prison and the real killer remains at large—Tessa turns to the lawyers working to exonerate the man awaiting execution. But the flowers alone are not proof enough, and the forensic investigation of the still-unidentified bones is progressing too slowly. An innocent life hangs in the balance. The legal team appeals to Tessa to undergo hypnosis to retrieve lost memories—and to share the drawings she produced as part of an experimental therapy shortly after her rescue.

What they don’t know is that Tessa and the scared, fragile girl she was have built a fortress of secrets. As the clock ticks toward the execution, Tessa fears for her sanity, but even more for the safety of her teenaged daughter. Is a serial killer still roaming free, taunting Tessa with a trail of clues? She has no choice but to confront old ghosts and lingering nightmares to finally discover what really happened that night.

Shocking, intense, and utterly original, Black-Eyed Susans is a dazzling psychological thriller, seamlessly weaving past and present in a searing tale of a young woman whose harrowing memories remain in a field of flowers—as a killer makes a chilling return to his garden.]]>
354 Julia Heaberlin 0804177996 Lucy 0 3.76 2015 Black-Eyed Susans
author: Julia Heaberlin
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2018/04/30
date added: 2018/10/18
shelves: crime-thriller, non-blog, read-in-2018
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The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1) 27824826 A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.

In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.

Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier.

But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke's death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.

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336 Jane Harper Lucy 0 non-blog, read-in-2018 4.04 2016 The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
author: Jane Harper
name: Lucy
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2018/03/30
date added: 2018/10/18
shelves: non-blog, read-in-2018
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The Truth About Alice 16068341 Winner of the Children's Choice Book Awards' Teen Choice Debut Author Award

Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When Healy High star quarterback, Brandon Fitzsimmons, dies in a car crash, it was because he was sexting with Alice. Ask anybody.

Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over the "slut stall" in the girls' "Alice had sex in exchange for math test answers" and "Alice got an abortion last semester." After Brandon dies, the rumors start to spiral out of control. In this remarkable debut novel, four Healy High students tell all they "know" about Alice—and in doing so reveal their own secrets and motivations, painting a raw look at the realities of teen life. But in this novel from Jennifer Mathieu, exactly what is the truth about Alice? In the end there's only one person to Alice herself.]]>
209 Jennifer Mathieu 1596439106 Lucy 0 3.65 2014 The Truth About Alice
author: Jennifer Mathieu
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at: 2018/02/28
date added: 2018/10/18
shelves: netgalley-or-edelweiss, read-in-2018, received-for-review, ya-2018, ya-contemp
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Big Bones 36642854
When BB has a worse-than-usual asthma attack, her mom insists she go to the doctor. There, she is told that she is overweight (no surprise) and prediabetic (big surprise) and must lose weight, move more, and keep a food diary. To get out of this immediate health crisis, she agrees to make an effort.

Then a tragedy occurs in the family, and things get seriously complicated. Suddenly, losing weight and moving more are the least of her worries. As for the food diary, though, BB doesn't just document what she's eating, she documents what she's feeling--and she has a lot to say!]]>
400 Laura Dockrill 147140692X Lucy 0 3.40 2018 Big Bones
author: Laura Dockrill
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/02/28
date added: 2018/10/18
shelves: netgalley-or-edelweiss, read-in-2018, received-for-review, uk-author, ukya, ya-2018, ya-contemp
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We Are Young 36497163
A media furore erupts, with the finger of blame pointed firmly at stoner, loner Lewis. Everyone else seems to think the crash was drugs-related, but Evan isn't buying it. With the help of her journalist father, Harry, she decides to find out what really happened that night.

As Evan delves deeper into the lives of the three teenagers who died in the crash, she uncovers some disturbing truths and a secret that threatens to tear her family - and the community - apart for ever...]]>
384 Cat Clarke 1786540053 Lucy 0 3.93 2018 We Are Young
author: Cat Clarke
name: Lucy
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/01/31
date added: 2018/10/18
shelves: netgalley-or-edelweiss, read-in-2018, received-for-review, uk-author, ukya, ya-2018, ya-contemp
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