First Impressions of cookreadsleep

The Girl in Cell 49B
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Feb 02 2021 – 09:11 AM

Over the top

There is something intriguing about this book, but this girl, and the entire situation, is just...

Finding Freedom
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Feb 02 2021 – 08:51 AM

Well written

I'm not a fan of memoirs; I don't understand what it is about people that leads them to the...

The Cleaner
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Feb 01 2021 – 10:29 AM

Interesting

This book starts with a little more bloodshed than I prefer, but it's good to show both the skill...

Legacy of War
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Jan 20 2021 – 10:38 AM

Series

Once again, we are presented with a book deep into a series. This prevents the reader from having...

The Nine
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Jan 19 2021 – 11:14 AM

Structure

I'm having a little trouble picking up the structure of this book. At first it reads like an...

Last Call
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Jan 19 2021 – 09:40 AM

Lots of information

This book is really ambitious, because it is interweaving the story of one dead person (in this...

SAS: Red Notice
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Jan 11 2021 – 11:03 AM

Men with guns

Sometimes I enjoy a military thriller but I'm just not feeling this one. It starts with men...

House of Hollow
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Jan 11 2021 – 10:43 AM

Creepy

This book is exactly what I've been looking for: girls who appear to be changelings, with maybe...

Love at First
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Jan 07 2021 – 08:53 AM

The melodrama

This book makes everything the most important, meaningful thing that has ever happened. The kid...

What Big Teeth
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Jan 06 2021 – 11:31 AM

Slow burn

I'm not sure what to make of this book. It is really focused on the protagonist's perceptions of...

The Darkest Glare
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Dec 14 2020 – 05:22 PM

Impenetrable

I just cannot follow what this author is writing about. He started out telling an interesting...

Never Enough
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Dec 14 2020 – 09:48 AM

Surprising

This is not a book I ever would have picked up, because I made a lot of assumptions about the...

Starfish
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Dec 07 2020 – 11:12 AM

Verse grows on you

At first I thought I didn't want to read a book that was basically a series of poems, but as I...

The Arsonists' City
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Nov 20 2020 – 03:19 PM

Fat shaming

There were a few things that put me off from this book. The first of which was that the...

Land of Big Numbers
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Nov 16 2020 – 02:45 PM

Quick

This is one of those instances where I regret not reading about the book before I started...

Watch Her
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Nov 16 2020 – 02:11 PM

Sequel

Unfortunately, I read this entire First Impression without knowing that this was not the first in...

Open Heart
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Nov 09 2020 – 03:46 PM

Enthralling

I didn't think a book about a young man interested in becoming a doctor and sleeping with his...

Fairy Godmothers, Inc.
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Nov 02 2020 – 10:46 AM

Salty sweet

I generally don't love romantic comedies because they're very cliche. While this one isn't...

Every Last Fear
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Nov 02 2020 – 09:12 AM

Cliffhanger

This book is well plotted and paced. The story starts with unbelievable tragedy, then...

Surrender
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Oct 26 2020 – 02:00 PM

Uncompelling

I'm not generally a fan of memoirs, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt. The thing that put...

The Echo Wife
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Oct 19 2020 – 11:22 PM

Elevated

The first lines of this book made me worry just a bit that it was too high brow for me to follow....

Super Fake Love Song
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Oct 12 2020 – 09:13 PM

Steretypical

"He didn't call me anything anymore" - I had thought this line meant the brother was dead, but...

Notorious
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Oct 12 2020 – 08:57 PM

Sexual tension

Any book that refers to the heat between a woman's thighs when she's having a conversation with a...

Black Buck
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Oct 05 2020 – 10:49 AM

Rollercoaster

My first impression of this book was that I would not be able to hang with it. I'm probably...

The Princess Knight
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Sep 28 2020 – 01:32 PM

Definitely YA

This book is a strange mix of a fantasy title that ignores most of the fantasy aspects in order...

All That Was
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Sep 21 2020 – 03:23 PM

Overwritten

I can tell that this book is going to be exhausting to read. The sentences are overwritten so...