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2019 Book 7: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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Format:  Kindle Date started:  February 4, 2019 Date Finished:  February 9,2019 A quick glance at Goodreads proves that I'm of the minority opinion on this book - it was not good.  The building blocks of a great book were there - unreliable narrators, a murder mystery, and shifting points of view -- but I think it was the time loop that sunk the ship so to speak.  A-hahaha -- alliteration!  :)  Just when I found myself beginning to grasp into which body Aidan Bishop had currently been thrust, he switched hosts again.  I can see where this is a compelling plot device, but I quickly gave up even trying to keep track of who Bishop was, who he'd already been, and who he was going to be.  It was too, too much, and because it was too much I found that I didn't really care about where the story was going or who killed Evelyn Hardcastle 7 1/2 times or even why they did it. 

2019 Book Six: Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

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Format: Kindle Date Started:  January 30, 2019 Date Finished: February 4, 2019 I became Cuban by marriage in 2014.  My husband's paternal grandparents immigrated from Cuba in the 1940s well before the revolution.  Though my husband's uncles live there now, the family didn't settle in Florida but in Washington DC.  Their family being infinitely pragmatic, I've learned that there wasn't a lot of rhapsodizing over what was lost in Cuba.  They had to make a new life in America, and so they did.  When my husband's grandfather's law degree from Cuba wasn't recognized, he retrained as an engineer.  My father-in-law is like that, too.  If something needs doing, you do it.  What other choice is there?  And, I recognized those same traits in Cleeton's characters as well. I wasn't sure what to expect with this book.  The beautiful cover hints at throes of passion and romance, and while the main thrust of the story's action was driv...