Andrea's Updates en-US Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:19:55 -0700 60 Andrea's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg GiveawayRequest702525281 Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:19:55 -0700 <![CDATA[<a href="/user/show/177370-andrea">Andrea</a> entered a giveaway]]> /giveaway/show/410526-grey Grey by Samantha Johnson
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Enter to win ]]> Review7353669422 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:45:58 -0700 <![CDATA[Andrea added 'Hidden in Smoke']]> /review/show/7353669422 Hidden in Smoke by Lee Goldberg Andrea gave 5 stars to Hidden in Smoke (Sharpe & Walker, #3) by Lee Goldberg
bookshelves: to-read
A couple years ago I was introduced to Lee Goldberg’s Eve Ronin series, and those were a gateway to the Sharpe and Walker series. In “Hidden in Smoke� the worlds collide again, and Sharpe and Walker need Eve’s help solving a homicide that is very likely linked to the series of freeway fires they are investigating.
If you have not read Lee Goldberg yet, you need to. They read like a TV show (as they should he does write for TV)!
Thank you NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer. #HiddeninSmoke #NetGalley
]]> Review7434795900 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:38:49 -0700 <![CDATA[Andrea added 'The Conditions of Will']]> /review/show/7434795900 The Conditions of Will by Jessa Hastings Andrea gave 5 stars to The Conditions of Will (Kindle Edition) by Jessa Hastings
Georgia Carter was shipped off to London as a teen. Always seen as a disappointment to her close-minded, wealthy South Carolina family, she has stayed away. Until her sister calls to tell her, their father has died. When she makes it back to her family home, she finds her alcoholic gay brother’s AA sponsor there as well. Sam is stunning, and defiantly not gay. As the week Georgia is home, the past comes to light and is delightfully messy.

I admit I was instantly hooked on the messy characters of Jessa’s “Magnolia Parks� series and finding out how many had great qualities. “The Conditions of Will� has characters just as complex if not more so. I connected to Georgia as my family’s outcast who was never listened to. I found myself not wanting to put it down and putting it down so the story wouldn’t end!
]]> Review7434795900 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:13:31 -0700 <![CDATA[Andrea added 'The Conditions of Will']]> /review/show/7434795900 The Conditions of Will by Jessa Hastings Andrea gave 5 stars to The Conditions of Will (Kindle Edition) by Jessa Hastings
Georgia Carter was shipped off to London as a teen. Always seen as a disappointment to her close-minded, wealthy South Carolina family, she has stayed away. Until her sister calls to tell her, their father has died. When she makes it back to her family home, she finds her alcoholic gay brother’s AA sponsor there as well. Sam is stunning, and defiantly not gay. As the week Georgia is home, the past comes to light and is delightfully messy.

I admit I was instantly hooked on the messy characters of Jessa’s “Magnolia Parks� series and finding out how many had great qualities. “The Conditions of Will� has characters just as complex if not more so. I connected to Georgia as my family’s outcast who was never listened to. I found myself not wanting to put it down and putting it down so the story wouldn’t end!
]]> Review6872982104 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:56:49 -0700 <![CDATA[Andrea added 'Coram House']]> /review/show/6872982104 Coram House by Bailey Seybolt Andrea gave 4 stars to Coram House (Hardcover) by Bailey Seybolt
Crime writer Alex Kelley has taken a new job ghostwriting a story about Coram House orphanage with a past. Her husband passed away from cancer, the medical bills are piling up, and she needs to get away. So, she takes a job writing for a lawyer that worked on the lawsuit of the orphans of Coram House.

This is a very dark twisty read. I loved it! (4,5 stars) ]]> UserStatus1045656175 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:37:28 -0700 <![CDATA[ Andrea is 68% done with The Conditions of Will ]]> The Conditions of Will by Jessa Hastings Andrea is 68% done with <a href="/book/show/220364261-the-conditions-of-will">The Conditions of Will</a>. ]]> Review2108999473 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:36:22 -0700 <![CDATA[Andrea added 'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century']]> /review/show/2108999473 On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Andrea gave 5 stars to On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback) by Timothy Snyder
Scarier than any Steven King book, because it is true. Everyone should read this! ]]> ReadStatus9299821982 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:37:35 -0700 <![CDATA[Andrea wants to read 'Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America']]> /review/show/7482347228 Lady Justice by Dahlia Lithwick Andrea wants to read Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick
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