hillarycopsey's reviews
865 reviews

Charming, thoroughly enjoyable 

Deeply unsettling speculative fiction. I had a hard time reading, tbh. 

Thanks to Netgalley for the advance copy. 

Short, lovely, thought-provoking. Worth the small investment of time.

Really great on audio. I didn't love the narrators, but having audio for the podcast episodes made them come alive in a way I don't think they would have done on the page. 

Appreciated the way this story considered who is believed and why. 

I really appreciate how Thorpe writes about working class people navigating modern bureaucracies and culture. There’s critique there and compassion, but never pity, and always a sense for the comic, the beautiful, the absurd. 

Ultimately, this book deals with domestic violence and the fallout from it. It would pair well with the nonfiction book, No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder. 

Strong and compelling historical fiction. 

A composed and clear-eyed look at grief and the ways modern American culture does not deal with it or allow an individual to deal with it. As Brooks found, many of our systems and bureaucracies actively make grieving worse and more traumatic. Brooks manages to share her own personal tragedy and make it universal. 

I would recommend this to everyone, particularly the simple directives at the end, urging everyone to keep track of all the things they do for their households, that their loved ones will be forced to pick up in the wake of their loss. 

Thanks to Netgalley for the advance copy. 

Liked the parallel stories here. As usual, Moreno-Garcia is excellent in building atmosphere. Thoroughly enjoyable. 

Right book at the right time. This 44yo woman thoroughly enjoyed going with Dederer through her own past and thinking how it might have been affected by the culture and times we live in. 

This isn’t my genre, and I guessed the twist. But the setting is well-drawn and Mary felt like a fairly modern woman. Like, I kept thinking that this story reminded me of Tara in Sons of Anarchy.