#Maggie Macmillan

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Road Trip Earworms 2024 - Editor's Pick for Favorite Songs

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Road Trip Earworms 2024 – Editor’s Pick for Favorite Songs There’s nothing like an earworm, sounding so good no matter how many times you play it. I’ve been an earworm listener since I was a kid – hitting repeat to keep that feeling going for hours.  There were a lot of them this year.  I hear a lot of music over the course of a year, and here is my go-to, road trip earworm list for this year. I…

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Continuing to get creative with blank slate characters from the original MW trilogy for use in a fanfic with MacMillan.

(Robert?) (Lachlan?) MacMillan

55 years old

Major General/Commander of Special Forces

Silver-streaked red hair and dark green eyes

6’3. Price compares him to a wolf. All predator. Long strong limbs and the tendency to gather his operatives like a pack.

Has been married for 30 years to his wife Maggie. They have five kids. 27-year-old twin boys (Erik and Ewan), their 25-year-old daughter (Madeline), their 23-year-old boy (Arthur) and their 10-year-old oops baby, Alex.

After Shepherd’s betrayal and death, Price hands oversight control of the 141 to MacMillan. Price trusts MacMillan, implicitly, as his former Captain. MacMillan’s happy to have 4 of his best operatives back.

MacMillan’s never been the type of officer with something to prove. He’s in charge and everyone knows it. He rarely yells. He doesn’t dish out arbitrary punishments. But everybody knows when he’s pissed off. His temper is cold, and if you’re the one to piss him off? Like being burned by ice.

Edit to add: MacMillan was/is secretly a metalhead. Occasionally you can hear him blast music if you you pass his office in the evening. His wife was the singer for a metal band when she was in her early 20s.

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Rating: 2/5

Book Blurb:

Perfect for fans of The Half of It, Maggie Horne's debut YA contemporary novel is an ode to lifelong friendships and discovering queer community.

You only get one soulmate, and I'm not throwing mine away.

Alana and Gray have been the perfect couple ever since they got together before high school – and neither of them think that should have to change just because Alana came out as a lesbian.

Sure, things are a little different now: their romantic relationship is over, but their best-friends-since-forever relationship is stronger than ever. And yeah, Alana sees the way her other friends now exclude her in tiny, almost unnoticeable ways, but she still has Gray, and that’s all that’s ever mattered to her. Really, the only difference is that instead of kissing Gray herself, Alana sets him up with other girls to do that.

But when new girl Tal arrives, she stops Alana and Gray in their tracks.

Suddenly, Gray’s all-in on his plan to get Tal to fall in love with him, and, for the first time, Alana’s reluctant to help. As Alana and Tal grow closer, and Alana begins to think Tal might share her feelings, she has to decide whether to embrace her queerness and risk losing the life she thought she was building, or continue to hide parts of herself and maintain the status quo.

Don’t Let it Break Your Heart is a tender and romantic exploration of identity, love, and friendship that turns the friends to lovers romance trope on its head.

Review:

Falling for the same girl as your best friend... who also happens to be your ex boyfriend is probably the messiest it could ever get. Alana and Gray were the perfect couple but they do everything together, they are a set, and even when Alana comes out as a lesbian and breaks up with Gray, neither of them thinks that anything between them should change. Yet this friendship is going to be put to the test when the new girl Tal arrives in town and both Alana and Gray have a crush on her. Alana and Gray are extremely codependent on one another, and Alana likes to pretend she isn't hurt that none of her old friends excluding her hurts her. But when Gray makes it clear he is interested in Tal, Alana decides to hide her crush.... but when Tal also begins sharing feelings for Alana, and Alana decides to keep it a secret from Gray.... everything is going to implode when the truth comes out. Can Alana figure out her relationships before she loses both her best friend and the girl she's in love with? This book was frustrating to read to say the least, it's rough seeing someone be so codependent on another person, so willing to hide their feelings and be their needs, and I just wanted to shake Alana. It's definitely a teen experience and it does portray the annoyingness of teenagers and all their decisions, but I just couldn't really like or care for any of the characters and by the end I just wanted Tal to end up with someone better. I liked Tal a lot but I just didn't feel the romance between her and Alana. While this book was a miss for me, if you like the teen queer coming out experience and the growing pains of being a queer teen, give this a go, maybe you'll have a better time with it than I did.

Release Date: August 27,2024

Publication/Blog: Ash and Books (ash-and-books.tumblr.com)

*Thanks Netgalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group | Feiwel & Friends for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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Masterpost of every character who has already competed

We do take requests for future brackets! Before you request a character be included in a future bracket, check this list first to make sure they haven't already competed.

Lena Adams Foster (The Fosters) Elida Al-Feyr (Vagrant Queen) Nyssa Al Ghul (Arrow) Cassie Ainsworth (Skins) Luisa Alver (Jane the Virgin) Winter Anderson (American Horror Story: Cult) Miss Audrey (Snowpiercer) Babs (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Saanvi Bahl (Manifest) Bambi (Minx) Josephine Barry (Anne with an E) Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) Bilquis (American Gods) Maya Bishop (Station 19) Sarah Bishop (A Discovery of Witches) Alana Bloom (Hannibal) Cheryl Blossom (Riverdale) Anne Bonny (Black Sails) Kelly Booth (Black Mirror) Nova Bordelon (Queen Sugar) Nancy Botwin (Weeds) Dana Bryant (Mythic Quest) Robin Buckley (Stranger Things) Lena Burnham (Ray Donovan) Calliope Burns (First Kill) Delia Busby (Call the Midwife) Amanita Caplan (Sense8) Wendy Carr (Mindhunter) Chanel #3 (Scream Queens) Max Chapman (A League of their Own) Piper Chapman (Orange is the New Black) Denise Christopher (Timeless) Grace Choi (Black Lightning) Cassandra Cillian (The Librarians) Jade Claymore (Willow) Dani Clayton (The Haunting of Bly Manor) Raelle Collar (Motherland: Fort Salem) Dulcie Collins (Deadloch) Delphine Cormier (Orphan Black) Theo Crain (The Haunting of Hill House) Frannie Crowne (Brave New World) Moiraine Damodred (The Wheel of Time)

Alex Danvers (Supergirl) Ashley Davies (South of Nowhere) Carina DeLuca (Station 19) Jo Deluca (A League of Their own) Bo Dennis (Lost Girl) Clare Devlin (Derry Girls) Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) Franky Doyle (Wentworth) Camina Drummer (The Expanse) Waverly Earp (Wynona Earp) Kat Edison (The Bold Type) Philippa Eilhart (The Witcher) Mabel Elmsworth (The Buccaneers) Camile Engelson (Stitchers) Eretria (The Shannara Chronicals) Isobel Evans (Roswell New Mexico) Dana Fairbanks (The L Word) Juliette Fairmont (First Kill) Emily Fields (Pretty Little Liars) Veronica Fisher (Shameless) Fleabag (Fleabag) Flower (Ghosts) Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess) Lupe Garcia (A League of Their Own) Bibi Garvey (Bad Sisters) Mirror Philippa Georgiou (Star Trek: Discovery) Gigi Ghorbani (The L Word: Gen Q) Stella Gibson (The Fall) Sue Gilbert (Dickinson) Emily Grace (Murdoch Mysteries) Yara Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) Monet de Haan (Gossip Girl) Judy Hale (Dead to Me) Yuri Han (XO, Kitty) Millie Harcourt (The Bletchley Circle) Nicole Haught (Wynonna Earp) Lauren Heller (Younger) Emma Hernandez (Vida) Pamela Isley (Batwoman) Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5) Bradley Jackson (The Morning Show) Alice Jones (Once Upon a Time) Tara Jones (Heartstopper) Quinn Joseph (Harlem) Kate (One Mississippi) Annalise Keating (How to Get Away with Murder) Tina Kennard (The L Word) Kennedy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Yasmin Khan (Doctor Who)

Aneela Kin Rit (Killjoys) Camille L'Espanaye (The Fall of the House of Usher) Victorine LaFourcade (The Fall of the House of Usher) Lagertha (Vikings) Shelly Lambert (Minx) Sara Lance (Arrowverse) Lauren Lewis (Lost Girl) Lexa (The 100) Maggie Lin (Saving Hope) Anne Lister (Gentleman Jack) Veronica Lodge (Riverdale) Santana Lopez (Glee) Lucretia (Spartacus) Lyria (The Shannara Chronicals) Tara Maclay (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Elizabeth Macmillan (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) Queen Maeve (The Boys) Maggie (Good Omens) Sofia Marchetti (Sex Education) Margot (Once Upon a Time) Bess Marvin (Nancy Drew) Cara Mason (Legend of the Seeker) Max (Black Sails) Katherine Mayfair (Desperate Housewives) Ally Mayfair-Richards (American Horror Story) Mazikeen (Lucifer) Shane McCutcheon (The L Word) Betty McRae (Bomb Girls) Lake Meriwether (Love, Victor) Freya Mikaelson (The Originals) Sandy Milkovich (Shameless) Mabel Mora (Only Murders in the Building) Ellen Morgan (Ellen) Rory Morningstar (Lucifer) Aleesha Morrison (Upload) Hayes Morrison (Conviction) Blanche Mottershead (Upstairs Downstairs)

Mulan (Once Upon a Time) Leighton Murray (Sex Lives of College Girls) Raffi Musiker (Star Trek: Picard) Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) Nadja (What We Do in the Shadows) Nicky Nichols (Orange is the New Black) Nico (Vida) Nina (Good Omens) Allie Novak (Wentworth) Dani Núñez (The L Word: Gen Q) Ola Nyman (Sex Education) Shona O'Keefe (This Way Up) Kelly Olsen (Supergirl) Van Palmer (Yellowjackets) Marjorie Palmiotti (Veep) Gail Peck (Rookie Blue) Aline Penhallow (Shadowhunters) Valencia Perez (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) Laura Peterson (The Morning Show) Lindsay Peterson (Queer as Folk) Anissa Pierce (Black Lightning) Brittany S. Pierce (Glee) Naomi Pierce (Succession) Alice Pieszecki (The L Word) Eve Polastri (Killing Eve) Bette Porter (The L Word) Bill Potts (Doctor Who) Arthie Premkumar (GLOW) Amae Rali (Vagrant Queen)

Scylla Ramshorn (Motherland: Fort Salem) Amy Raudenfeld (Faking It) Logan Rawlings (Young & Hungry) Maia Rindell (The Good Fight) Arizona Robins (Grey's Anatomy) Eve Rothlo (How to Get Away with Murder) Root (Person of Interest) Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Kenya Rosewater (Defiance) Susan Ross (Seinfeld) Siuan Sanche (WoT) Ellaria Sand (Game of Thrones) Jenny Schecter (The L Word) Jinju Seong (Snowpiercer) Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager & Star Trek: Picard) Toni Shalifoe (The Wilds) Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife) Carson Shaw (A League of Their Own) Sameen Shaw (Person of Interest) Leslie Shay (Chicago Fire) Amy Silva (Vigil) Bea Smith (Wentworth) Petra Solano (Jane the Virgin) Rose Solano (Jane the Virgin) River Song (Doctor Who) Kitty Song Covey (XO, Kitty) Serena Southerlyn (Law & Order) Zelda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) Maya St. Germain (Pretty Little Liars) Moira Strand (The Handmaid’s Tale) Della Street (Perry Mason) Tamsin (Lost Girl) Kit Tanthalos (Willow) Stahma Tarr (Defiance) Jamie Taylor (The Haunting of Bly Manor) Thirteen (House, MD) Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who) Tara Thornton (True Blood) Bess Till (Snowpiercer)

Tituba (Salem) Toni Topaz (Riverdale) Callie Torres (Grey’s Anatomy) Fabiola Torres (Never Have I Ever) Taissa Turner (Yellowjackets) Two / Portia Lin (Dark Matter) Alex Vause (OITNB) Mel Vera (Charmed) Villanelle (Killing Eve) Karen Walker (Will & Grace) Martha Walker (Silo) Poussey Washington (Orange is the New Black) Ellen Waverly (For All Mankind) Kerry Weaver (ER) HG Wells (Warehouse 13) Sterling Wesley (Teenage Bounty Hunters) Nora West-Allen (The Flash) Jayne Wetherby (Dracula) Lucy Westenra (Dracula) Ilana Wexler (Broad City) Ryan Wilder (Batwoman) Carol Willick (Friends) Lana Winters (American Horror Story) Bernie Wolfe (Holby City) Camile Wray (Stargate Universe) Xena (Xena: Warrior Princess) Meh Yewll (Defiance) Yorkie (Black Mirror - San Junipero)

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Promotional Tour and Review: Don't Let It Break Your Heart by Maggie Horne

Hello everyone! I am here to participate the book tour of Don't Let It Break Your Heart by Maggie Horne! Thank you Colored Pages Book Tours for having me as a host! Without further ado, let’s go!

What Do I Think About The Book?

I am nearing the end of the story, but I would say that I like this book! Wonderful characters (though I have mixed feelings with Gray sometimes), good writing, and nice setting. Overall, this is a good book to read during fall time or any time of that year!

I received a gifted copy in exchange for review. All opinions are my own. Thank you Colored Pages Book Tours and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group!

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨

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Synopsis:

You only get one soulmate, and I'm not throwing mine away.

Alana and Gray have been the perfect pair all through high school, and neither of them think that should have to change just because Alana came out as a lesbian. Sure, their romantic relationship is over, but their best-friends-since-forever dynamic is stronger than ever. Really, the only difference is that instead of kissing Gray herself, Alana sets him up with other girls to do that.

Enter Talia: tall, confident, gorgeous. Gray's master plan is simple: befriend Tal and charm her into being his girlfriend. With Alana's help, of course.

But as Alana spends more time with Tal, she is introduced to a world of possibilities. A world outside her small town. A world in which Alana can fully embrace her queer identity. A world where Alana and Talia are . . . together.

As the two get closer, Alana must juggle her loyalty to Gray with her growing feelings for Tal. Can she stay true to herself and to her best friend? More importantly, does she want to?

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King Charles visits cancer centre on his return to public duties

King Charles has made his first public appearance since being diagnosed with cancer in February, CNN reports.

His Majesty arrived at the Macmillan Cancer Centre at University College Hospital on Tuesday morning wearing a blue pinstripe suit and blue shirt. The 75-year-old monarch was joined by his consort Queen Camilla. The couple smiled and waved to the crowd outside the London hospital.

Their Majesties will meet doctors, patients and patients’ families during the visit, which is sure to be something of a close call as their sister-in-law Kate is also being treated for an unspecified cancer. The visit also coincides with King Charles’ first day as patron of Cancer Research UK.

As Prince of Wales, Charles became patron of Macmillan Cancer Support in 1997, a role he still holds today. Similarly, Queen Camilla, as Duchess of Cornwall, became President of Maggie, a cancer support charity, in 2008, a role she still holds today.

Earlier this year, King Charles withdrew from public appearances as he began treatment for an unspecified type of cancer, although the monarch continued to attend to affairs of state within the walls of Buckingham Palace.

Read more HERE

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Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda

Category: LGBTQ+

Summary: Maggie Gonzalez's youngest sister, Alyssa, is preparing for her quinceañera. While her mother and oldest sister Veronica are focused on planning this coming-of-age event for Alyssa, Maggie is dealing with her own coming-of-age dilemmas. Should she leave the Rio Grande Valley to pursue her photography passion at NYU, even if it means leaving her family behind and taking on financial debt? More importantly, who should she ask to be her chambelan/date to the quince? Her (maybe straight-maybe not) BFF Amanda--her first crush who has recently been giving her mixed signals? Her ex-boyfriend Matthew who, despite having a girlfriend, seems to think their on-again, off-again relationship means he can still flirt with Maggie? The new girl in town Dani, who has her own troubled past but seems interested in Maggie in a wholehearted way that the others are not? When Maggie creates a finsta account for an art assignment and decides to use it to sort through her feelings for these three, what could possibly go wrong?

Justification: This book features a cast of well-rounded, relatable characters. The friendships and sibling relationships depict a real way teenagers interact with each other and their families. While the plot may be predictable in some places, the emotions the reader experiences as Maggie explores her potential relationships and navigates the messy gray areas between friendship and romance is a wonderful rollercoaster. Diverse representation of the Latino/a community, unique aspects of life in a small border town, the struggles of living in a low socio-economic bracket and trying to make ends meet while having big dreams, and being an open member of the LGBTQ+ community are all topics that young adult readers are interested in and provide "mirrors, windows, and sliding doors."

Reader Response: Although the book could benefit from cutting a few scenes to improve the pacing, it is overall a solid read. I personally wish I had representation like Maggie when I was a young, closeted, baby-bisexual disaster. Her confidence, security, and acceptance of her sexual orientation by the end is heartwarming. I recognized a lot of my own teenage friendship circle in Maggie's, full of love (platonic and romantic) as well as drama, making this read a fun way to reminisce. Prepping for quinces (I didn't have one, but I was a dama in three), eating raspas on a day when the sun feels like it's got a personal vendetta against you, speaking broken Spanish with la familia y las familias de amigos...it was like a stroll down memory lane, updated for Gen Z. While some may consider parts of the novel pandering to social justice if you've ever lived in a small Texas town, especially one near the border, you'll recognize the truth in those featured elements. The references to WLWs wearing flannel and listening to Girl in Red were a bit outdated but didn't strike me as anything more than a girl establishing her orientation in a way many of us did in our youth--a bit cringe, but disaster recognizes disaster.

Mosqueda, A. (2022). Just your local bisexual disaster. Macmillan.

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The Long Weekend | Gilly Macmillan | Published 2022 | *SPOILERS*

Three couples. Two bodies. One secret. 

Dark Fell Barn is a perfectly isolated retreat, or so says its website when Jayne books a reservation for her friends. A quiet place, far removed from the rest of the world, is exactly what they need. 

The women arrive for a girls’ night ahead of their husbands. There’s ex-Army Jayne, hardened and serious, but also damaged. Ruth, the driven doctor and new mother who is battling demons of her own. Young Emily, just wed and insecure, the newest addition of this tight-knit band. Missing this year is Edie, who was the glue holding them together until her husband died suddenly. 

But what they hoped would be a relaxing break soon turns to horror. Upon arrival at Dark Fell Barn, the women find a devastating note claiming one of their husbands will be murdered. There are no phones, no cell service to check on their men. Friendships fracture as the situation spins wildly out of control. Betrayal can come in many forms. 

This group has kept each other’s secrets for far too long. 

Jayne, Ruth and Emily are three women who are all the wives of a group of best friends. Together, they are traveling to a barn, known as Dark Fell, located in the country, off the grid and away from their normal everyday lives for their annual getaway. Done every year with the couples, they are shockingly short of a few of their normal members: Mark, Paul and Toby, their husbands, are going to meet them there the following day after being called away for various reasons at the last minute. Edie, a normal member of their group, is also gone as she had lost her husband a few months before, and instead is going away on her own for the weekend. 

When the owners of the barn and land are met with a courier asked to deliver a package for the guests, Maggie is shocked when her husband has such a strange reaction to what has occurred. John, who grew up on the land himself, is suffering from dementia, which is quickly taking his senses away from him, and making him act erratically. Despite his convictions on the package that was delivered, they get the barn ready for their expected guests. 

The women arrive, and Emily feels out of sorts. She’s the newest of the group as well as the youngest at 23 years old, a whole 10 years younger than the other two women. Ruth is a doctor, and new mother, and is finding it hard to cope with everything in her life. Jayne is ex-military, as is her husband Mark. She suffers from PTSD and often disassociates when things are going wrong or when she sees blood, a direct correlation to what she experienced during her time in the military. 

The trip doesn’t start off great, as upon their arrival to the barn, they find the package left for them, and inside is a letter presumably from Edie, stating that by the time they have arrived at the barn, one of their husbands will be dead by her hand. Emily, rightfully, panics and wants to leave back down to the farmhouse to contact her husband Paul. Ruth and Jayne understand Edie better, and believe that the letter is a hoax. They try to get signals on their cellphones, but are not successful. They try to think of others things, but instead, Ruth only gets drunk as she has a problem with drinking and alcohol. During a raging thunderstorm, Emily tries to run away from the barn to the farmhouse to try to contact her husband, but instead runs into John, who was watching the barn from afar. Due to his mental disabilities, he becomes lost and confused, but helps Emily where she is taken care of by Maggie until the following morning. Maggie and John’s son, William, arrives. He’s a police constable, and at Emily’s urging, has arrived to discuss the letter. 

John, Maggie and Emily with William return to the barn to collect the letter, as well as get Jayne and Ruth together to head back home. However, Jayne is asleep in Ruth’s room, where she fell asleep the night before alongside Ruth, but Ruth is missing. They begin searching for her while Emily, who was injured in her trek the night before, stays within the barn. She hears arguing between Maggie and John, and moments later, a gun goes off. John has ended his life by suicide, as he believes he may have been responsible for what happened to the women in the barn. The girls along with William go back to the farmhouse to await the colleagues of William, and a towncar arrives, but with only Toby, Ruth’s husband, arriving. 

They begin their trek home, Emily in the towncar purchased by her husband, and Toby, Jayne and Ruth in Jayne’s vehicle they used to drive up the day before. Anxious to find out the fate of her own husband, Jayne drops Toby and Ruth off at home, and hurries to her own home, but finds it empty. 

All while this is going on, we have another perspective. An anonymous perspective. At first, we are meant to think that it is Edie. This person is attempting to hide a body inside of a person they murdered, but after Imogen, Edie’s daughter calls from a music camp requesting to be picked up due to the thoughts of self-harm, their plan is derailed. When they return home, Imogen invites her friend over and attempts to leave, when we find that the person in this perspective is not Edie, but another person, presumably female. However, we quickly learn that this perspective is a male. 

This person is deluded to believe that Imogen is their daughter, which we, as the reader, begin to believe as well. Edie, Mark, Toby, Paul and Rob were all friends in school. Edie and Rob married, and together had Imogen. However, this unknown person believes they know/heard Rob claim that they were unable to have children, and in a fit of passion, slept with Edie, only to realize that Edie used them to get pregnant to have a child. After drugging Imogen after her friend Jemma is asked to leave, this person swabs Imogen’s cheek and is sent off to have a paternity test done, which would take 24 hours to get the results back. 

In the meantime, this person attempts to take care of Imogen while Edie is “away” but it is clear that Edie has been murdered and stuffed inside of the storage locker within a freezer. When the third person leaves, Imogen is left alone, and in thinking that Edie will be returning that evening, awaits for her mother’s return. However, Toby arrives at Imogen’s house hoping to speak with Edie. Ruth and Toby had a fight, and he left after Ruth accused him of grooming the young female students he teaches at university. Toby is concerned about Imogen, as she was meant to be away at camp while her mother is away, and we finally find out who the unknown perspective is: Mark, Jayne’s husband. 

Jayne is blissfully unaware of Mark’s involvement in this, and when he returns home, Jayne is thankful because she thought he could be the one that Edie had murdered. He reassures her everything is fine, even going with her to Paul and Emily’s house. Emily claims that Toby, who had been there a little while earlier, attacked her. Mark, playing the role of hero, goes to Imogen’s house because he knows that’s where Toby went. 

Everything begins falling apart. Ruth’s mother appears and tells her that Toby wasn’t grooming young women, but Ruth doesn’t want to believe what was going on, and after getting a text from Toby claiming that he’s at Imogen and she needs to get there quick, leaves, though she is still intoxicated. However, tragedy strikes when Ruth rams into Toby’s car when he’s trying to get away from Mark who has attacked him in his efforts to protect Imogen. 

At this point, this police arrive and Imogen explains what happened. After the police run Mark’s plates, he is arrested for Edie and Paul’s murder. His plan has fallen apart: he murdered Edie and Paul, with the plan to make it seem that they had run off together so he could take in Imogen, who he believed was his daughter. While sitting in the back of the police car, he receives the email, and finds that he is not Imogen’s father, though this persons identity is never revealed. 

One year later, the lives of everyone are revealed: Jayne is dealing with the aftermath of Mark’s decisions and choices. He never went to trial, as he confessed to everything and is incarcerated within a psychiatric hospital due to multiple personality disorder, which Jayne mistook for PTSD like she has. She lost touch with everyone, and doesn’t make any efforts to keep in contact, nor do they try to contact her. She still visits Mark, though she decides she isn’t going to do that anymore either so she is able to move on. 

After the accident, Ruth gets sober for her son, but we do not learn what happened to her marriage with Toby or if they ever got passed what happened. Imogen is living with her friend Jemma and her family, and is getting ready to head to school to study music. Emily sold her and Paul’s house and moved, even inviting Jemma to come and stay with her if she wanted too. 

This book was incredibly confusing to me at first. There were no chapters, only page breaks indicating a new perspective was taking over. It was very jumpy, and often confusing. It is broken up into three parts: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but the Sunday taking place one year after the events occurred. 

Because of this, the first little bit of the book is difficult to read because everything jumps around quickly. You aren’t sure who the one perspective is until a little while into the book, which was interesting but for me, I need the chapters to indicate something new is occurring. 

While the book was a bit confusing, it was an easy read after they leave the barn and the events really start unfolding. The twists and turns were exciting, and the book was entertaining. But, due to the mass confusion in the beginning, I left it a 3/5 on GoodReads. 

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Evermore

It’s been three years since Al Potter had last seen Maggie Macmillan, and things did not end well between them. Al, determined to forget about her and to start his career had cut off all contact with her once they had graduated from Hogwarts.

Maggie Macmillan though, had been busy. After Al had broken up with her, she had found out she was pregnant with his baby, and after he wouldn’t answer her calls or letters, she decided to raise their son herself. Collin is the light of her life and she adores her baby boy.

But when both of their worlds collide, and they see each other again for the first time in years, everything starts to get a bit weird. It’s as if their teenagers again, but this time, Al is trying not to fall into old habits, while Maggie does just that. It doesn’t help that they’re plagued by the memories of their mistakes and it doesn’t help that Collin is here now.

Al is either going to have to step up for his son or stay out of Maggie and Collin’s lives forever; and Maggie is either going to have to let Al in or make it clear that he’s not wanted, once and for all.

Epilogue: Closure

2026+: Maggie and Al keep moving forward

Read from the beginning here

Read Closure here

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Maggie Macmillan

Every birthday, Maggie would make each of her friends try one of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavoured Beans. 

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Sootypaws reading!  It’s a book release party at Green Bean Books 

on February 16th at 11:00.  Come!

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-(finished) watchin’ Season 1- 10/24/2022- 4 stars- on HBO max

EMMA D'ARCY as RHAENYRA TARGARYEN in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022) Episode 10: “The Black Queen”

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Novel Nuggets - All About Audiobooks (Part II)

Novel Nuggets – All About Audiobooks (Part II)

One of the ways I discovered that I might not be handling the stress of the past few months is that no matter how often I tried, I could never summon the energy or desire to sit down and write reviews. At first, I didn’t think anything of it, knowing I would eventually write them. Then a week became a month. A month became five months. One overdue review became five. Five outstanding reviews…

[serendistudy]

mid year book tag

i was tagged by @the---hermit to this wonderful book-related tag game and i was so excited to do this!! my reading goal for 2022 was 25 books and i actually literally yesterday reached that goal :o it’s so wild to me that i have reached my reading goal halfway through the year already! not that the number of books you read matters, but as someone who used to read maybe a max of 3 books a year, this is just absolutely amazing to me that i have managed to already read so many books!

best book you’ve read so far in 2022 : if i had to pick just one, it would be lonely castle in the mirror by mizuki tsujimura, that book broke me in the best and most healing way possible.

best sequel you've read so far in 2022 : the secret commonwealth by philip pullman, it was a long book but it kept me interested the entire time. also the dream thieves by maggie stiefvater.

new release you haven't read yet, but want to : gallant by v.e. schwab is still on my list for this year.

most anticipated release for the second half of the year : i haven’t really been keeping up with upcoming releases but chain of thorns by cassandra clare comes out in january 2023 apparently and i’m really looking forward to seeing how that series ends! (not this year, but almost lol)

biggest surprise favorite new author (debut or new to you) : i’m going to say brandon sanderson, i didn’t imagine i would enjoy skyward as much as i have but the writing and worldbuilding are just incredible and i am excited to check out more of his books in the future (he’s written a LOT of books so i won’t run out of them quickly lol)

newest fictional crush : no character really comes to mind because i don’t think i personally crush on a lot of book characters but i have to say that i absolutely adore spensa from skyward and ronan from the raven cycle/the dreamer trilogy 😭😭 but they’re not really crushes, more like new favourite characters that i got to know this year

book that made you cry : lonely castle in the mirror by mizuki tsujimura (try reading that ending without crying. i dare you.)

book that made you happy : so many books!! i mainly read in hopes of books making me happy. loveless by alice oseman was a very cathartic and lovely read, under the whispering door by tj klune was SO GOOD and i smiled so much, also all the moomin books by tove jansson that i’ve read this year so far

most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received) : i bought this really beautiful macmillan collector's library edition of anne of green gables by lucy maud montgomery! it looks so nice on my shelf

what books do you need to read by the end of the year? : i’m hoping to finish lord of the rings this year (i’m reading return of the king rn), other than that idk, i’ll just see what i’m in the mood for!

i’m tagging @sensiteave @hannistudies @fluencylevelfrench @melaschnie @la-galaxie-langblr but anyone who sees this is free to say i tagged you because i’d love to hear about your reading! 🥰