Goodreads: Book Reviews 12+

Lin Stepp has really outdone herself on this book! I believe it is the best book she has ever written and I have read all her books! Not that I am a expert, but I am a high volume reader. I do relate to this story because I am part Cherokee, my great grandmother was a full blooded Cherokee. I think the research she did for this book was spot on. It touched my heart of all the history she had to research to make this book what it is. It is a fast read, or it was for me. It kept my interest and is a page turner. I love the characters she had in this book and it makes me want to go to Cherokee, NC to meet these people. She made them all seem so real to me. I could really see these people as the Cherokee families that live there. The thing about the grandma having site, it is so true that Cherokee have that. I also have a small part of that, mine is a little different. I have had site, but mostly I have feelings and know things about people, I feel them and know what kind of person they might be. You will not be disappointed in this book, it is worth every penny! I believe this book would be a good read at the beach, or a vacation trip anywhere, or just sitting on your porch enjoying the outside, or even by a fire when the snow is flying. Lin’s books are fun reads and I have said that about her books for years, and this one is no different. It is also is informative of some of the Cherokee people. Love this book!

This app is one of my main apps! I personally read consistently everyday and I LOVE to log my books online. I personally hated logging my books in elementary school on paper. But this—has so many exceptions. For the people looking to see what the heck this app even does: you can add friends to see books they’re reading and if you want can compete.
You can ofc log books! You cannot read books, this is not an online library! But it seriously has EVERY 👏🏻 BOOK 👏🏻 EVER 👏🏻 TO 👏🏻 BE 👏🏻 WRITTEN.
Not for you to read, but to update your book status! If you put in your page number, it will tell you the percentage you’re in your book. There are three different shelves you can put a book under:
Want to read, Read, and Currently Reading. There’s annual challenges like the 2023 reading challenge where you can set a goal of how many books you want to read in the year and it will log them! I love this and I beg you to get it. There’s no fees at all! You also can see recommended books for you based on your previous read books so they figure your taste. It may be incorrect at first, but I now get great recommendations that I would totally read. All my bookworms, get this right now.

i use this app religiously but it needs an revamp BAD. the UI looks like it hasnt changed since day 1 and itd be nice if i could see my friends activity more often than i see ads on my feed 😑. would be nice if we could personalize our profiles, but not necessary. also recommendations or searching through genres could be greatly enhanced by further filtering of intended audiences—i dont want to scroll through twenty 20 childrens fantasy books before even finding one mediocre adult fantasy book im not interested in. ABSOLUTELY would benefit from half star rating system or even 10 star rating system im tired of seeing a 3 star review with “3.5 stars …” or a 1 star review with “0.5 stars…” in the actual review. the app is also not super user friendly and is generally clunky. lots of unnecessary tapping needed and idk what it is but the searching function is super clunky too. i feel like the search option should first search our shelves for matches before searching the rest of the database for matches. definitely need a multi-select option to make shelving multiple books easier. i have over 300 books in my read im not reshelving each individual book, jeffrey. add tags in reviews so we can filter by tags. basically more filtering options for everything. add private reviews only your friends can see so that they dont affect the overall review of the book (sometimes you can acknowledge a book is well-written and still hate it).