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Review: Always Only You - Chloe Liese

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Review: Always Only You - Book #2 Bergman Brothers Series - Chloe Liese - August 2020 As someone who considers themselves neurodivergent, I love reading Chloe Liese's books and enjoyed them even before I thought about this as I remember reading her debut novel many years ago. From then on, I have followed her books and one of the main things I love is that she represents disability inclusion #ownvoices and writes them in a way that shows people and readers that having a disability or illness doesn't have to stop your way of living and the biggest thing Chloe's shows readers through her book characters is that it doesn't have to be a weakness as it is what makes us - ourselves - special and unique. Always Only You is the love story of Frankie and Ren. Frankie is a sports PR agent and also suffers from Rheumatoid arthritis and autism. Ren is one of the many Bergman brothers who play Ice Hockey and looks like a jock, but underneath those layers is a sensitive theatre mis...

Review: The Girl in Keller's Way - Megan Goldin

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Review: The Girl In Keller's Way - Megan Goldin - May 2017 After reading both of Megan's later books The Night Swim and the Escape Room, I decided to go back to her debut novel "The Girl in Keller's Way". Like her later books, this one had all the twists and turns and the psychological angle. It was also easier to spot that this was her first novel and I have to admit she has improved quite a lot from this book to The Night Swim and really grown into her writing and found her footing. This book starts with a couple Julie and her professor husband Matt. Julie is a stepmother to their daughter and lives constantly in the shadow of Matt's previous wife Laura who we learn was killed years earlier. The book starts with her going running and needing to clear her head, that is until on her trip she is almost hit by a car that then swerves and crashes. The guy before he dies, tells her to run away as fast as she can and that she is in danger. Shaken, Julie arrives ho...