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THE UNWORTHY is my first foray into Agustina's full-length works (her short story collection was great!) and, coming in at 175 pages, I think it ultimately left me wanting so much more.

Dripping with mystery and despair, we get a hint at what the world of THE UNWORTHY is - it's bleak y'all 😬 - and the story being fully told in journal entries added an urgency to a plot that did seem to meander a good amount for the first half.

HOWEVER, that second half?! SUCKED ME IN 

The tragic love story and the unraveling of our main character's lead-up to joining the Sacred Sisterhood added so much depth to the story and I really just wanted more more more!

Early reviews for this one have been quite divisive and I can see why, but the latter half really altered my feelings on this one!

Thank you Scribner for the ARC for review - out March 4!

This book was told mainly through press and interviews and just didn’t dive as deep as I was hoping it would!

When Finlay's elderly neighbor's (Mrs. Haggerty) house becomes a crime scene, she turns to Finlay for a place to stay for the weekend until things get cleared up. Amidst trips to book club and late night neighborhood watches, Vero and Finlay are beyond ready for this sleepover to come to an end.

FINLAY DONOVAN DIGS HER OWN GRAVE was such a fun addition to the Finlay series!

The hijinks were top-tier and the potty training debacle added some levity while feeling true to life.

We got more Cam, Nick, and Javi in this one and are left with quite the cliffhanger as we near the end of this series 👀

Overall, I found this to be a really fun continuation of Finlay and Vero's adventures together!

Thanks to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and Minotaur Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review - out March 4!

Kristina never misses, I laughed, cried, and once again, fell in love with her characters.

So glad we got so much of the Terry backstory as well!

This bummed me out in every way I expected it to 😅

A great horror if you’re in the mood for something that feels as though it’s already happening in the real world 🙃

The audiobook did a great job in terms of casting and adding in little voice effects as well…wake up and open your eyes!

Sixteen years ago, Caroline Crale was said to have poisoned her husband (an artist!!) and sentenced to life in prison where she died soon after. All she left behind was a letter to her daughter claiming she was innocent - that daughter seeks out Hercule Poirot to find out if her mother was telling the truth. 

 

This book immediately felt true to the current times of true crime when armchair detectives come together to solve cold cases - though in this case, Poirot entrusts all of his possible suspects in truthfully telling their sides of the story of what unfolded that dark and terrible day - convenient, but we can brush that aside when it comes to this otherwise extremely cozy mystery 🥰 

 

This is one of those rare cases where I didn’t feel blindsided by the big reveal and I think the formatting of the way Poirot went about his detective work is the reason why 🕵️‍♀️ 

 

Poirot may have only been described as having an “egg-shaped head” once in this story, but I thought it was a really solid case to add to his dossier regardless! 

Penny Marshall, the woman you were!!