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  A dark night. Two strangers in a car, traveling down dark roads. Set before the days of cell phones and internet. I thought I was in for an awesome ride, but things took a detour. 🌟🌟🌟 Survive the Night is a page-turning thriller set in 1991 where the stupidest female protagonist ever decides to do a ride share road trip with a strange man just two months after her best friend was murdered by a serial killer still on the loose. Since she’s such an unreliable narrator, both she AND readers are prime targets for gaslighting, all at the mercy of a cray cray antagonist with a truly laughable agenda. The story is fine. I was never bored. Riley Sager’s, The Last Time I Lied is still on top of my favourite thrillers and i think my expectations were way too high. While the writing in this one is still good, it’s not oozing with atmosphere the way I hoped it would. The last few chapters were a bit too complicated for me. The motives and character actions weren’t very realistic, and I person

 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 – 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔.” 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Set in two different time periods, The Paris Library is a well-written and engaging read. The book follows the experiences of Odile, a librarian and Lily, a high school student. It’s about people affected by the Nazi occupation of France, how the Librarians and other staff at the American Library of Paris tried to save some of their patrons as well as preserve their right to read by delivering books to their Jewish subscribers who were no longer allowed by the Nazis to use the library. I was compelled to read some about the history of ALP and discovered in those articles as well as in the author’s note that some of the characters in this novel are based on real people. In the novel, Dorothy Reeder (a wonderful sounding name for a Librarian) who is the director of the Library was the director of the actual ALP from 1936-1941. I was so impressed how accurate this novel reflected the history. A program