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review 2020-06-16 16:39

Review ~ Decent read

A Voracious Reader

Book source ~ Review copy. My review is voluntary and honest.

Aubrey Harrison is a student at Texas A&M. The night of Chilifest she leaves the party to head home and swerves to avoid hitting a deer. Ok, side note here from Auntie Carol: never swerve to avoid hitting an animal unless you have plenty of clear space to do so AND you are not traveling at a high rate of speed. Because of this very reason - she runs off the road and flips her truck, ending up in the hospital and in a coma. Seriously. Hit the deer instead. You’re less likely to be hurt. Ok, back to the review.

Aubrey wakes up in San Antonio in 1836. Yep. 1836. She is still Aubrey Harrison, but not the Aubrey these people know. I have no idea what happened to the 1836 Aubrey. Maybe they really are one and the same? Time travel is so confusing. So, now 2018 Aubrey is in 1836 and that would be bad enough, but she finds out that the Battle of the Alamo is only a few weeks away. And we all know what happened then. Should Aubrey try to change the future? Can she even do that? She could probably change a small detail here and there, but a battle so monumental? Dilemma!

This is a fascinating concept, but I found a good portion of the beginning to be too slow for my tastes. It takes a while to build up speed, but when it does it was well worth the wait. Aubrey does a good job of straddling two time periods and not going bonkers. Then there’s Tapley, who looks so much like Lee, a classmate back in 2018. I’m not going to give away anything about this story because you’ll want to discover it for yourself. If you like time travel love stories then this is one you won’t want to miss.

Source: imavoraciousreader.blogspot.com/2020/06/where-we-first-began.html

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review 2020-02-20 02:08

MAUS II: AND NOW MY TROUBLES BEGIN by Art Spiegelman

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Maus, Vol. 2: And Here My Troubles Began - Art Spiegelman

Picks up where book 1 ended. I was aware of more present day happenings of how the Holocaust affected those who lived through it. Art picks up his father's story of being sent to Auschwitz. He talks of what happened and the fear they lived with as well as what they did to avoid the gas chamber. He speaks of the end of the war and liberation as well as coming to the United States.

This is harrowing. Those who made it through were strong. The story is intense and scary. It is sad as so many of the survivors lost so much--people and property. Vukula talks of those who made it through in his family and his wife's as well as the consequences of surviving. Never again!

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text 2019-02-18 14:02

Book Review: Where We Began (Where We Began Duet #1) By Nora Flite

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Where We Began (Where We Began Duet #1) - Nora Flite

This was a good book, but the synopsis led me to believe this was going to be much much darker than it was. I would categorize this under suspense bordering on contemporary before anything resembling "dark" (which is how a lot of people were describing this for some reason).

I was expecting Laiken's situation to be worse than it ended up being. The way this story gets set up makes it so it's tame nature works against it. Getting the story from Laiken's perspective makes it so you don't know the real impact of her dad's situation with this family. There isn't a sense of urgency from her where her dad is concerned. She's just happy to wait him out until, for her, the unthinkable happens. That's where things start to move somewhere at a very slow pace.

Dominic needed more development as a character. The only thing that kept me interested in him was his "big secret". He barely had a personality in between all that. I would have liked more witty banter between him and Laiken so I could have the semblance of chemistry between them.

The writing style was good but the pacing as too slow for me. The overall story was okay. I had an inkling that this was going to end in a cliffhanger and I wasn't proven wrong.

My Favorite Quotes:

"I know all too well what hope is good for: creating a happy glow that leaves a darker shadow in its wake when it's snuffed out."

"Being strong is all I have [...]. I have to trust that this is all going to pay off. If I don't what do I have left?"

"Your heart can't help you get home [...]."

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review 2018-09-23 22:19

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Witch Is When It All Began - Adele Abbott

This is a nice enough mystery involving Jill Gooder who discovers that she is a witch. There is a bit more telling than showing. But the really winning bit is Jill who comes across as human. She has flaws, she knows what they are, and she doesn't apolgize for them. But she is not bitchy. She cares deeply for her family who care deeply for her.

It was fun. And passed the Bedchal Test with flying colors.

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text 2018-09-18 12:48

Eh.

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I found the story of her finding out she's a witch more interesting than who committed the murders.

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