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The Bones Beneath My Skin by T J Klune book review

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 • 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝕽𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖊𝖜 • ~ Love, loss, found family… and an alien princess on the run from shady government agents. Oh, and her name? Artemis Darth Vader. Buckle up. ~ Set in 1995, this book follows Nate Carter—an ex-journalist who’s hit rock bottom—as he retreats to his family’s remote cabin for some soul-searching. But instead of solitude, he finds Alex (a gruff Marine with a gun) and Artemis (a 10-year-old girl who’s… off). Soon, Nate is thrown into a whirlwind of conspiracies, action-packed chases, and a journey that will reshape his understanding of love and belonging. Buy Here  • Why You Should Read It: + Klune’s writing is sharp, evocative, and dripping with nostalgia. The 90s setting? Spot on, from the cultural references to the raw, untamed sense of isolation that mirrors Nate’s emotional state. + It’s unapologetically queer—a story about identity and love in a time when acceptance wasn’t easy. Klune doesn’t just write relationships; he builds them, laye...
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The Hunter by Tana French Book Review

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The Hunter by Tana French: A Meditation on Justice, Power, and Belonging Tana French has always been a writer who defies genre expectations. While she gained recognition through her Dublin Murder Squad series, which combined literary prose with compelling procedural plots, her recent work has moved away from traditional crime fiction into something deeper, more atmospheric, and psychological. Buy Here With The Hunter, the sequel to The Searcher, French doubles down on this shift. Instead of a tightly wound thriller or a classic whodunit, we get a novel that unfolds slowly, immersing us in a rural Irish village where justice isn’t about laws, but about who holds power in the community. This is a book about consequences—about how past violence never disappears but lingers in the air like the oppressive summer heat that French so vividly describes. If The Searcher was about an outsider (Cal Hooper) learning to navigate the wary, insular community of Ardnakelty, then The Hunter is about th...
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