2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Book Review: Last Seen Alive by Joanna Schaffhausen

This is such a phenomenal series! It is dark and horrifying and oddly optimistic and creepy and magnificent all at the same time. Ellery is one of my favorite female protagonists of all time. Her unfailing ability to carry on, despite every parade of horribles thrown at her, is both believable and superhuman.

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Book Review: The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz

This was good but weird, like all Lutz’s work. She has a fabulous knack for writing quirky-strange offbeat characters that are endearing and irritating in equal measure, yet never fail to fully engage me or hook themselves into my imagination. Things got a little strange, even for one of her novels, near the end and […]

Book Review: The Conductors by Nicole Glover

OK, I’m disappointed. In myself, mostly, for never getting this one, but also in the story – because I simply cannot find my way into this one, and I REALLY wanted to…

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Book Review: When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham

I am constantly impressed with how wonderful Robotham is at writing suspenseful thriller drama. His books never fail to entertain. This was, admittedly, not my very favorite – but it was still a marvelous character study, even if the characters were often people I struggled to understand and relate to. I have a hard time […]

Book Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Singular Affair by M.K. Wiseman

I’m a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, in both the original Conan Doyle stories and the reimaginings and “further adventures” told by contemporary authors. The characters are so evocative and the ritual of deduction is so compelling that I am continually drawn to the tales. Not all are what I consider true to the canonical […]