formerly Nerding Out With Nicky
It’s been a couple months since I talked about books I’m excited about. December was crazy… I put my house on the market (and sold it), signed a contract on a new house, came down with Covid through Christmas and got over that just in time to move into the new home over New Year’s […]
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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah My rating: 5 of 5 stars Here’s the thing. I can tell a lot of research went into this book. I live in West Texas and remember experiencing my first dust storm. Everyone around me was so calm and indifferent like it was normal. I, on the other hand, […]
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The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins My rating: 3 of 5 stars 3.5 starsNot a whole lot to say about this one. I feel like I was into the story as I was reading it. It was good, but the end was a bit underwhelming and anticlimactic for me. There were pieces of the puzzle […]
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The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazing. Lots to unpack on this one. Ancient Egypt. Death. Physics. Past, present, future. Impossible choices. Multi universes. Choices. Picoult writes in this book that we do not make our choices; our choices make us. How do you know you’ve made […]
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The Push by Ashley Audrain My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was dark and mesmerizing. Whatever questions I had were answered in the final sentence. As someone with two psychology degrees, I kept thinking a lot of the way through this book about self-fulfilling prophecy. Post-partum depression, attachment styles and how they develop. […]
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The Awakening by Nora Roberts My rating: 5 of 5 stars There’s something I just love about these fantasy novels by Nora Roberts. They’re so good. This one is set in Ireland, involves Fey and witches and gods and epic battles and hidden pasts. And it wouldn’t be a Nora Roberts book if there wasn’t […]
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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a book I thought I would like, that turned out to be probably not at all what I was expecting, but I ended up liking it even more. This book is one that has this alternate reality/Schroedinger’s cat/multi-verse theme, but with […]
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Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved this so much! This has been one of my most anticipated reads of 2020, so I was so honored to receive an audiobook ARC from the publisher on Netgalley. I devoured the whole thing in one day. Prudence has the worst lab […]
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There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool My rating: 4 of 5 stars Fun read. Lots of characters I really came to know and love. I always love that doom or salvation prophecy trope, and the mystery it brings to a story. I liked that I didn’t know who people really were or […]
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab My rating: 5 of 5 stars Addie LaRue is such a character. Then again, so is that god who answered after dark! Have we seen the last of Adeline? I think it was left just open ended enough to leave a flicker of possibility. This book […]
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