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@girl_checkyoshelf 𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨… Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan Published: October 2022 Format: Hardcover Reviewed by: 🖤Lauren ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨/5 stars 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐝𝐢 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞? I admit this may be my first! Let us know in the comments ⤵️ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱: 🖤absolutely beautiful and engaging writing. I was drawn in to the storyline immediately. I went in blind, this was recommended by my friend stacylopithacus ! I trust her opinion so much I just dove right in! 🖤all of the bee facts. Wow. I actually was stunned at how interesting I found all these. Also how well they were written into the plot. 🖤 I love a court room drama that I finish and don’t HATE how a defense attorney is portrayed. I often read books where it’s clear the author has never spoken to a criminal defense attorney a day in their life. 🖤I loved all of the inclusivity and topics that the book touched on. We need more books like this. Books that talk about the struggle and torment transgender youth go through, that their families go through… the struggle for individuals to get out of domestically abusive relationships, the difficulty that comes with starting over. 🖤this is another great book to bring you out of a reading slump. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲: ✖️Some of the Lily and Asher flashback dating stories felt a little long and ,once we hit the trial, unnecessary. I found myself skimming quickly through the ice rink date.
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@booklover.bonnie Mad Honey Jodi Picoult 3⭐️’s Okay, who doesn’t love a murder mystery? With dual POVs between the victim and the accused’s mother? I love reading a good trial for murder and all the juicy, hidden secrets there could be. Unfortunately, this one wasn’t super juicy, but it was interesting. I definitely knew where it was leading so I wasn’t as shocked as so many others felt unfortunately. One thing I really did not like, Lily’s POV going backwards. Not a fan. Spoiler ahead—- I was definitely expecting Braden to lash out at Olivia for outing him in the court room like that. Anyone else? #madhoney #bookreview #bookreviewers #bookreviews #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #booktok #bookish #jodipicoult
@readbymel 5/5 ⭐️’s jodipicoult is my FAVORITE author! I had 2 go to target 3 different times to buy this new release and it did not disappoint. Olivia left an abusive marriage with her son Asher to take care of her fathers beekeeping business. Lily and her mom have also re-located for a fresh start. Lily and Asher fall for one another - when Lily dies, Asher becomes the prime suspect. Everyone has secrets as the case unfolds. Her last few novels have really honed in on a subject as a metaphor throughout the story - hi, bees. But this also reminded me a lot of her old school stuff, my favorite book by her is Nineteen Minutes and even featured defense attorney Jordan!! Loved this book - I had 0 spoilers and each twist got me!!! It’s a beautiful story of acceptance and unconditional love. The secrets we keep and if those really define us. (Book #51 of 2022) #readbymel #bookstagram #5starreview #fivestarbookreview #fivestarbook #readersofinstagram #thriller #romancebooks #contemporaryreads #fiction #goodreads #madhoney
Mad Honey - by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan (Hardcover)
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A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She's Not There Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life--living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher--was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can't help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can trust him completely. . . . Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn't acknowledge the flashes of his father's temper in Ash, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he's hidden more than he's shared with her. Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves.Review Quotes
Praise for Jodi Picoult "Picoult is a skilled wordsmith, and she beautifully creates situations that not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us."--The Boston Globe
"Jodi Picoult is that rare, one-in-a-million writer whose books both squeeze your heart and expand your mind."--Emily Henry Praise for Jennifer Finney Boylan "Jennifer Finney Boylan is an exquisite writer."--Augusten Burroughs
"One could not ask for a wiser, warmer, more engaging companion than Jennifer Finney Boylan."--Mary Roach
About the Author
Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight novels, including Wish You Were Here, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult lives in New Hampshire. Jennifer Finney Boylan is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books. She is the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer-in-Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University and a 2022-2023 Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. A nationally known advocate for human rights, she is a trustee of PEN America. For many years she was the national co-chair of GLAAD as well as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She lives in New York City and Belgrade Lakes, Maine, with her wife, Deedie. They have a son, Sean, and a daughter, Zai.Additional product information and recommendations
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