This was an amazing experience. I loved reading this book. It's very emotional and intense at times, and Moira Cork did such a great job of bringing that to life and really drawing you in and not letting you go until the book is finished.
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I just love the characters that Travis Baldry writes. I feel for them. I want the best for them.
I think it's fantastic. I think thematically it is incredible, but also the writing is amazing. It really transports you to another life, to another time and place, and brings everything so close, makes everything so immediate and intimate and urgent in a way that only serves the story that's being told.
The first book, Gideon the Ninth, has some locked room mystery elements. The characters here really stand out. And that is where Moira Quirk delivers in spades because her character acting in this series is next level.
This is not only a gorgeous moving stunning piece of fiction made me cry many times has 12 different characters that we follow and yet doesn't feel like it's overwhelming. I feel like you get to know every single character very well.
This is my favorite Emily Henry book that I have ever read. It was an easy five-star for me. It's just a beautiful story and it touched me incredibly deeply in the way that it handles themes of loss and grief.
Moira Quirk narrates all three audio books and they're all amazing. And I did technically relist to the audiobooks of book one and book two this summer in part just for the comfort of Moira Quirk's narration.
And I would highly recommend them, not only because they're thoughtprovoking and interesting and so relevant to readers right now, but also the audiobook version. To hear these thoughts from Elaine herself is just such a special experience, and I think she did an amazing job.
I'll never forget when we read Legends and Lattes as a book club pick and I talked about how I really liked the narrator and his old man voice and how sort of cozy and nostalgic it was and people were laughing because it was Travis Baldry and he's not an old man.
Anyway, I love Nona the Ninth as the third book in the series. I love the series in general and I love Moira Quirk.
This is a novel about grief and loss and it's also the novel that Stephen King claimed was the scariest of all of his work and the one book he never wanted to publish. So if you're looking for some horror with a lot of heart that will impact you forever, I would highly recommend Pet Cemetery.
The writing is scrumptious and descriptive, lyrical and beautiful. There's a lot going on thematically and the characters, as much as you kind of hate all of them the whole time, they're so interesting. They're so complex and layered.
The Missing Half, which was a really great thriller. If you're looking for a thriller, if you're a fan of thrillers, the audiobook of that one was also really great.
It's beautiful. It's a once in a-lifetime experience. I know I will reread this book probably several more times in my life, but I don't think I'll ever be able to capture the experience that was my first time.













