en-US Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:52:22 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7243486974 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:52:22 -0700 /review/show/7243486974 Kier Scrivener gave 4 stars to The Duke's Children (Palliser, #6) by Anthony Trollope
bookshelves: 19th-century, classics, family-dynamics, victorian-era
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]]> Review6722392869 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:59:37 -0700 /review/show/6722392869 Kier Scrivener gave 4 stars to Say You'll Remember Me (Say You'll Remember Me, #1) by Abby Jimenez
bookshelves: adult, family-dynamics, mental-health, romance
Abby Jimenez consistently writes full coloured characters dealing with complex dynamics and worries in their life with sensitivity, realism and heart. Her romances are some of my favourite and this one between Xavier and Samantha is no different.

Xavier, a vet estranged from family as a consquence from his parents abuse and Samantha who is moving halfway across the country to look after her mom who has dementia. They fall in love but navigating the distance is horrendous. ]]> Review7461977520 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:20:14 -0700 /review/show/7461977520 Kier Scrivener gave 5 stars to The Anne of Green Gables Devotional: A Chapter-by-Chapter Companion for Kindred Spirits (Hardcover) by Rachel Dodge
bookshelves: christian, nonfiction, devotional
This was a truly incredible companion and devotional for Anne of Green Gables fans, convicting, encouraging, deeply grounded in scripture and an understanding of Anne and her world. ]]> ReadStatus9264511934 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:12:16 -0700 /review/show/6722392869 Kier Scrivener started reading Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
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]]> Review5406024502 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:20:54 -0700 /review/show/5406024502 Kier Scrivener gave 3 stars to Trespasses (Hardcover) by Louise Kennedy
bookshelves: 20th-century, adult, affair-fiction, audiobook, female-main-character, fiction, historical-fiction, irish-fiction, literary-fiction, new-adult, own-voices, realistic-fiction
I wanted to love it more than I did. It reminded me of my Atonement dilemma when all the ingredients were there but the mix was not quite right. The characters didn't leap off the page, they crawled. They existed but they weren't alive. When the characters were suppose to hold emotional weight I found that they flew. I think it might be that Kennedy rarely lingered in a scene. I like living, breathing, existing in a scene and so many of the moments felt like they were over before they began. They happened, almost in summary. I was compelled by the beat but not impacted by it. We never really sat in unease. Or the unease, tension might not have worked for me.

I would he interested in reading what Louise Kennedy writes next. This is somewhat autoographical. She was a child during the Troubles, her family experienced bombings and attacks at their pub, she hadn't wrote and didn't even intend this as a novel for others. But when she got a cancer in her early fifties, she wanted to write this story. She's now in remission and I hope she has many more years to live and develop her talent. ]]> ReadStatus9214577171 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:19:47 -0700 /review/show/7422861121 Kier Scrivener is currently reading The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice von Hildebrand
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