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CrispyQ

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9. "A Thousand Ships" by Natalie Haynes
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 09:20 AM
Sep 2021

This book popped up on my screen while I was perusing the online library catalog, I suspect cuz I'd read some historical fiction recently. It has great reviews at Amazon. I wanted to like it. I even gave it 112 pages, 62 more than I usually do.

It's a tale of the women of Troy. I should have guessed when the book had several pages of lists of characters at the beginning. By the time I put the book down, I'd met so many characters, I had a hard time keeping them straight, & there were new characters to come. Through the telling of another character, we discovered one of the early characters died, so there was a started storyline that we'd never go back to. I liked the concept, but the story was really disjointed to me.

Today I hope to start "An Ambush of Widows" by Jeff Abbott.

In New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott’s latest novel of riveting psychological suspense, an uneasy alliance forms as two widows delve into their husbands’ deadly and dangerous secrets—as they try to protect their own.


"The Feast" sounds interesting!

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"1979" The King of Prussia Sep 2021 #1
She is on my list hermetic Sep 2021 #2
"A Star is Bored" bif Sep 2021 #3
Cool. Love the title hermetic Sep 2021 #4
Finished reading Jess Walter's The Cold Millions and highly recommend it japple Sep 2021 #5
Gentleman in Moscow is a wonderful read! LearnedHand Sep 2021 #7
+1M for the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells LearnedHand Sep 2021 #6
The Feast marigold20 Sep 2021 #8
Glad to hear you enjoyed it hermetic Sep 2021 #11
"A Thousand Ships" by Natalie Haynes CrispyQ Sep 2021 #9
Your first clue should have been the title hermetic Sep 2021 #10
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