#Finlay Donovan is killing it

[stephthebookslayer]

Just started this and I’m already enjoying it a lot! It is reminding me a little of the show Dead to Me.

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Some of my 5 star reads this year!

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My March TBR for the JOMPBPC, clearing out my shelves.

Books featured

The Switch by Beth O'Leary

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

Soldiers Unknown by Chag Lowry and Rahsan Ekedal

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón

The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

Word by Word by Kory Stamper

Husband Material by Alexis Hall

[potterandpromises]

Finlay needs to give into her true nature (hitwoman)

[literaryhypewoman]

Book Review: "Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice" by Elle Cosimano

As I continue to clear my review drafts from 2024, here's a look at the current book in one of my favorite series, Finlay Donovan. In book four, we find Finlay taking a road trip with the whole squad and dead bodies abound. Read the full review:

If you haven’t read any of the first three books in the Finlay Donovan series by Elle Cosimano, this is your fair warning to bookmark this page and come back when you’re caught up. Elle loves to pick up books directly following the chaotic end of the one before, so this will include some spoilers. You have been warned. Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice [Buy Bookshop Amazon LibroFM] finds Finlay and…

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Finlay Donovan is Killing It

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3/5 stars

[sincerelyyellingback]

I just finished reading "Finlay Donovan is Killing It," and I LOVED it (even though it had me STRESSED the whole time I was reading it 😅). I would recommend it to anyone.

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"Finlay Donovan is Killing It" by Elle Cosimano book recommendation by Rachel Sylvan

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Finlay Donovan is Killing it by Elle Cosimano - Book Review!

Today on my blog I have a review for #FinlayDonovanisKillingIt by Elle Cosimano. I can't believe I've slept on this series for so long, it's hilarious, heartbreaking and filled with hi jinks... I'll be picking up book two asap! #BookReview

Finlay Donovan is killing it…except, she’s really not. A stressed-out single mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: The new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written; her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her; and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. When Finlay is…

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"He can ring the doorbell and see if I answer, just like everybody else"

Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

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2024 books read

2024 goal: 150 books

january: 1 - heartstopper vol. 1 → alice oseman (reread) 2 - heartstopper vol. 2 → alice oseman (reread) 3 - heartstopper vol. 3 → alice oseman (reread) 4 - heartstopper vol. 4 → alice oseman (reread) 5 - heartstopper vol. 5 → alice oseman 6 - a fragile enchantment → allison saft 7 - some shall break → ellie marney (audiobook) 8 - only if you're lucky → stacy willingham (arc) 9 - over my dead body: a witchy graphic novel → sweeney boo 10 - notes on an execution → danya kukafka (physical & audiobook) 11 - murder on the orient express → agatha christie (reread) 12 - our wives under the sea → julia armfield (physical & audiobook) 13 - the invocations → krystal sutherland (arc) 14 - red string theory → lauren kung jessen 15 - the breakup tour → emily wibberley & austin siegemund-broka (arc) 16 - the name drop → susan lee 17 - the secret of the old clock → carolyn keene (reread) 18 - bright young women → jessica knoll (audiobook) 19 - last call at the local → sarah grunder ruiz (audiobook) 20 - no one can know → kate alice marshall

february: 21 - worst wingman ever → abby jimenez 22 - drop, cover, and hold on → jasmine guillory 23 - with any luck → ashley poston 24 - the atlas six → olivie blake (reread, audiobook) 25 - that's not my name → megan lally 26 - not here to stay friends → kaitlyn hill 27 - this golden state → marit weisenberg 28 - today tonight tomorrow → rachel lynn solomon (reread, annotation) 29 - past present future → rachel lynn solomon (arc, annotation) 30 - the atlas paradox → olivie blake (reread, audiobook) 31 - the guest list → lucy foley (audiobook) 32 - in the market for murder → t.e. kinsey (audiobook) 33 - the neighbor favor → kristina forest 34 - in the mix → mandy gonzalez 35 - everyone in my family has killed someone → benjamin stevenson 36 - the seven year slip → ashley poston 37 - veronica ruiz breaks the bank → elle cosimano (audiobook) 38 - finlay donovan rolls the dice → elle cosimano (audiobook) 39 - the simmonds house kills → meaghan dwyer (arc)

march: 40 - the mysterious case of the alperton angels → janice hallett 41 - the book of cold cases → simone st. james 42 - what the river knows → isabel ibañez (audiobook) 43 - cut loose! → ali stroker & stacy davidowitz 44 - how i'll kill you → ren destefano 45 - the reappearance of rachel price → holly jackson (arc) 46 - when no one is watching → alyssa cole (audiobook) 47 - outofshapeworthlessloser: a memoir of figure skating, f*cking up, and figuring it out → gracie gold (audiobook) 48 - julius caesar → william shakespeare (rerad, audiobook) 49 - the family plot → megan collins (audiobook) 50 - if we were villains → m.l. rio (reread) 51 - alone with you in the ether → olivie blake (physical & audiobook) 52 - disappearance at devil's rock → paul tremblay (audiobook)

april: 53 - shakespeare: romeo and juliet graphic novel → martin powell & eva cabrera 54 - shakespeare: macbeth graphic novel → martin powell & f. daniel perez 55 - shakespeare: julius caesar graphic novel → carl bown & eduardo garcia 56 - shakespeare: a midsummer night's dream graphic novel → nel yomtov & berenice muniz 57 - twelfth knight → alexene farol follmuth (arc) 58 - kill for me, kill for you → steve cavanagh 59 - murder road → simone st. james 60 - everyone on this train is a suspect → benjamin stevenson 61 - listen for the lie → amy tintera 62 - king cheer → molly horton booth, stephanie kate strohm, jamie green 63 - twelfth night (musical adaptation) → kwame kwei-armah & shaina taub 64 - in juliet's garden → judy elliot mcdonald 65 - fat ham → james ijames 66 - death by shakespeare → philip l. nicholas, jr 67 - a good girl's guide to murder → holly jackson (reread) 68 - good girl, bad blood → holly jackson (reread) 69 - as good as dead → holly jackson (reread) 70 - dark corners → megan goldin (audiobook) 71 - the one that got away with murder → trish lundy (audiobook) 72 - funny story → emily henry 73 - imogen says nothing → aditi brennan kapil 74 - people we meet on vacation → emily henry (audiobook, reread)

may: 75 - episode thirteen → craig dilouie 76 - the girls i've been → tess sharpe (reread) 77 - the girl in question → tess sharpe (arc) 78 - wild about you → kaitlyn hill (arc) 79 - just for the summer → abby jimenez 80 - my best friend's exorcism → grady hendrix 81 - second first date → rachel lynn solomon 82 - the ballad of darcy & russell → morgan matson 83 - the good, the bad, and the aunties → jesse q. sutanto (audiobook) 84 - truly, madly, deeply → alexandria bellefleur 85 - your blood, my bones → kelly andrew 86 - amy & roger's epic detour → morgan matson (reread) 87 - romancing mister bridgerton → julia quinn (reread) 88 - the viscount who loved me → julia quinn (reread) 89 - bittersweet in the hollow → kate pearsall 90 - to sir phillip, with love → julia quinn (reread) 91 - when he was wicked → julia quinn (reread) 92 - it's in his kiss → julia quinn (reread) 93 - on the way to the wedding → julia quinn (audiobook, reread) 94 - emma → jane austen (audiobook, reread)

june: 95 - first lie wins → ashley elston 96 - we got the beat → jenna miller 97 - firekeeper's daughter → angeline boulley 98 - chlorine → jade song (audiobook) 99 - what stalks among us → sarah hollowell 100 - hollow fires → samira ahmed (audiobook) 101 - part of your world → abby jimenez 102 - the road trip → beth o'leary 103 - yours truly → abby jimenez 104 - finally fitz → marisa kanter 105 - the last love song → kalie holford

july: 106 - dead girls walking → sami ellis (audiobook) 107 - home is where the bodies are → jeneva rose 108 - we used to live here → marcus kliewer 109 - the children on the hill → jennifer mcmahon (audiobook) 110 - what moves the dead → t. kingfisher 111 - my throat an open grave → tori bovalino 112 - dashed → amanda quain (arc) 113 - asking for a friend → kara h.l. chen (arc) 114 - beach read → emily henry (reread, audiobook) 115 - book lovers → emily henry (reread, audiobook) 116 - happy place → emily henry (reread, audiobook) 117 - you have a match → emma lord (reread, annotation) 118 - bonnie & clyde musical script → ivan menchell (reread) 119 - such charming liars → karen m. mcmanus (arc) 120 - she left → stacie grey (audiobook) 121 - let the games begin → rufaro faith mazarura (audiobook) 122 - death at morning house → maureen johnson (arc)

august: 123 - cleat cute → meryl wilsner (audiobook) 124 - i wish you would → eva des lauriers 125 - the break-up pact → emma lord (arc) 126 - water for elephants → sara gruen 127 - when you get the chance → emma lord (reread, annotation) 128 - come out, come out → natalie c. parker (arc) 129 - my lady jane → cynthia hand, brodi ashton, jodi meadows 130 - the lies of alma blackwell → amanda glaze (arc)

september: 131 - the spare room → andra bartz 132 - late bloomer → mazey eddings (audiobook) 133 - savor it → tarah dewitt (audiobook) 134 - triple sec → t.j. alexander (audiobook) 135 - the skeleton key → erin kelly 136 - the examiner → janice hallett (arc) 137 - the dark we know → wen-yi lee (audiobook) 138 - pretty girls → karin slaughter 139 - a good girl's guide to murder → holly jackson (reread, annotation) 140 - lady macbeth → ava reid 141 - the pumpkin spice café → laurie gilmore 142 - the main character → jaclyn goldis (audiobook) 143 - queen macbeth → val mcdermid (arc) 144 - the cinnamon bun bookstore → laurie gilmore (audiobook)

october: 145 - midnight on beacon street → emily ruth verona (audiobook) 146 - make me a mixtape → jennifer whiteford (arc) 147 - haunt sweet home → sarah pinsker 148 - graveyard shift → m.l. rio 149 - the bitter end → alexa donne (arc) 150 - morbidly yours → ivy fairbanks 151 - someone in the attic → andrea mara 152 - a new lease on death → olivia blacke (arc) 153 - the christmas tree farm → laurie gilmore 154 - staged → elle cosimano 155 - the reunion dinner → jesse q. sutanto 156 - a crime of fashion → emma rosenblum 157 - the nosy neighbor → nita prose 158 - one lucky subscriber → kellye garrett 159 - a classic case → alicia thompson 160 - interview with the vampire → anne rice (audiobook) 161 - horror movie → paul tremblay (audiobook) 162 - everything is poison → joy mccullough (arc) 163 - romeo and juliet → william shakespeare (reread) 164 - no place left to hide → megan lally (arc) 165 - macbeth → william shakespeare (reread)

november: 166 - dinner for vampires → bethany joy lenz (audiobook) 167 - make the season bright → ashley herring blake 168 - a bánh mì for two → trinity nguyen (audiobook) 169 - merriment and mayhem → alexandria bellefleur 170 - a novel love story → ashley poston 171 - guilt and ginataan → mia p. manansala

december: 172 - looking for smoke → k.a. cobell (audiobook) 173 - seven lively suspects → katy watson 174 - the rival → emma lord (arc) 175 - a lively midwinder murder → katy watson 176 - the cheerleaders → kara thomas (rerad, audiobook) 177 - the champions → kara thomas (audiobook) 178 - a guide to the dark → meriam metou (audiobook)

[agameofbooksblog]

Finlay Donovan lives that author life.

[adolin]

I have been in a terrible reading slump and am looking for books to pull me out. Do you have any recommendations?

FRANCES HARDINGE. cool heroines, middle grade level that adults will love, cool fantasy premises, perfect balance of quality & light read. my faves are deeplight + cuckoo song.

If you don't like fantasy then my beloved herotic stories for punjabi widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. everyone should read it I'm not kidding I love it to bits.

more ideas:

beach reads!! these are all fun engaging types of books:

fantasy: a deadly education by naomi novik

thriller: the it girl by ruth ware

thriller but comedy: Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

horror: My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. the coldest girl in cooldown by Holly Black

litfic: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

romance (F/F): Hotshot byClare Lydon

romance (het): Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho (contemporary). Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore (historical). Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood (YA)

prose so good you want to eat it. (words are pretty but the book is a bit heavier to stomach! depends on your tastes)

matrix by lauren groff. into the woods by tana french. my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell. The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker.

engaging nonfiction

humble pi by matt parker. the code book by simon sigh. if you wanna go heavier, I really loved Black AF History by Michael Harriot

shorter stuff

short stories! I've loved everything I've read that was short by Tamsyn Muir, but the collection Heiresses of Rust (2016) she's featured in also has an incredible mix of short stories by various authors. the theme is lesbian fiction. another sff author I love for short stories is James Tiptree

tiny books! chaptered but on the shorter side. Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand. Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr. One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir. The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson

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Read in August ↴

favorites: ★

Books

Jackal by Erin E. Adams

Only Survivors by Megan Miranda

Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards

Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang ★

One of Us Is Back by Karen M. McManus

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Articles

Infant deaths surge in Texas after abortion ban

People from all over the world are sending emails to Melbourne’s trees

‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!�� Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline

The ‘Flu Shot Cheerleader’ is back – with a warning about the anti-vaccine movement ★

Even Conspiracy Theorists Are Alarmed by What They’ve Seen

‘You’re not God’: Doctors and patient families say HCA hospitals push hospice care

Richard Hanna, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote for White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym

Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race

A Basement Housing Bill Killed by Conspiracists ★

Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region ★

‘Essentially witchcraft’: A former naturopath takes on her colleagues

Maybe It’s Lyme: What happens when illness becomes an identity? ★

Everyone at West Virginia University Knew Something Was Up. I Hate That We Were Right.

Listened (not technically reading, I know)

The Retrievals podcast from Serial Productions and The New York Times ★

Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data? podcast episode from NPR’s Planet Money

Scamanda podcast from Lionsgate Sound

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Books currently on my Bookshelf

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Complete Sherlock Holmes vol. 1 by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The Lost World by Michael Crichton

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett by Alexandra Ridley

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

One Day by David Nicholls

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Duff by Kody Keplings

Beastly by Alex Flynn

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

The Book Of Awesome by Neil Pasricha

The Best of Dorothy Parker by...Dorothy Parker (?)

The Boyfriend List 1-4 (aka Ruby Oliver) by E. Lockhart

The Hunger Games 1-3 + Prequel by Suzanne Collins

The Lunar Chronicles 1-4 by Marissa Meyers

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse by Charles Mackesy

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*These are only my physical books. I downsized several years ago and that left me with a majority of books i hadn't read yet. I want to try to make an earnest effort to flip that ratio. Most are second hand or gifts, but all happily accepted with the intention of reading. The exceptions are the YA series, which were bought and read when I was a young adult.

Color System:

💙 TBR

💚 Read, but could be up for a reread soon

🧡 DNF accidentally but will continue

🖤 Read, but no current need to reread

♥️ Read but will most likely (definitely) not reread in the future

Not sure where I'm going to start but I'm super excited to start getting through this list, in no particular order.

-Rook

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💜 Batty About Books' July Reading Recap

❓ What was your favorite book for July?

🦇 My July reads included: ✨ The Backtrack - Erin La Rosa 💜 The Fragile Threads of Power - V.E. Schwab ✨ Ruthless Vows - Rebecca Ross ✨ It Happened One Summer - Tessa Bailey ✨ Hook, Line, and Sinker - Tessa Bailey ✨ Finlay Donovan is Killing It - Elle Cosimano ✨ A Fragile Enchantment - Allison Saft ✨ Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall ✨ We Got the Beat - Jenna Miller 💜 The Breakup Tour - Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka