en-US Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:29:19 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7479259943 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:29:19 -0700 /review/show/7479259943 LibraryCin gave 4 stars to The Ascent: A Novel (Kindle Edition) by Allison Buccola
bookshelves: thrillers, mothers-and-daughters, sisters, husbands-and-wives, cults, missing-persons
Lee grew up in a commune, a “cult�, and one day when she was 12-years old, she woke up and everyone else was gone, including her mother and younger sister. Twenty years later, Lee is married and they have a newborn daughter, Lucy. Her husband. Theo, doesn’t know about Lee’s background/childhood. And one day, someone shows up claiming to be Lee’s sister, Mona.

I really liked most of this but there was a twist near the end that I just don’t see how she could have figured out. I thought it was an unbelievable leap by an unreliable narrator. Other than that, I still really liked it. It kep me reading, wondering what had happened to Lee’s family. ]]> ReadStatus9355465703 Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:39:14 -0700 /review/show/7520999879 LibraryCin started reading The Sister Season by Jennifer Scott
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]]> Review7463173773 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:04:32 -0700 /review/show/7463173773 LibraryCin gave 4 stars to Code (Virals, #3) by Kathy Reichs
bookshelves: mystery, murder, games, friendship, young-adult, teenagers, canadian-fiction, geocaching, supernatural, crime, puzzles
This is the 3rd in a YA series. Tory and her friends have acquired some special abilities (in previous books). They have come across a geocaching site and one of them encourages the others to join in to solve the puzzles. This particular geocache is a bit different and leads to another. Then, another. And it gets weird and scary. Then, the teens find a dead body.

I listened to the audio and though I did occasionally lose focus, I really liked this story. There was also a surprising twist (well, surprising to me � maybe there were hints I missed, though I don’t often catch those, anyway!). Things ramped up toward the end to make it all a bit more exciting. I also liked that one of the adults did help a bit in this one. ]]> ReadStatus9304327672 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:40:44 -0700 /review/show/7485438937 LibraryCin is currently reading Longbourn by Jo Baker
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]]> Review431147060 Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:11:47 -0700 /review/show/431147060 LibraryCin gave 3 stars to Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (American Social Experience Series) by Elaine G. Breslaw
bookshelves: salem, new-england, 17th-century, witches, trials, biography, history
3.25 stars

Tituba was an indigenous woman, likely indigenous to South America, and was a slave in Barbados before she came to Massachusetts with Samuel Parrish in the late 1600s. When the girls started convulsing and pointing fingers at possible “witches,� Tituba was one of the first who was pointed at. In fact, Tituba “confessed,� but she later indicated that she had lied to save herself. This was a biography, of sorts, of Tituba.

There is not a lot of information on Tituba beyond the time of the witch trials in Salem, but with a lot of research, the author has put together something that makes sense. But it is a lot of looking at the research and deducing things. So, especially at the start, it’s not super-enticing. But, there is a reason the author wants to include Tituba’s likely background as a child in her indigenous community as a child, then as a slave in Barbados. The author thinks Tituba drew on those things when she was testifying, and it does, in fact, explain some of what was happening, if the author is correct. So, I think there is good information here, though it is a bit slow-going, especially at the start. ]]> ReadStatus9291506973 Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:36:57 -0700 /review/show/7476617764 LibraryCin is currently reading Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence by Nathan J. Emery
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