The Maid

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The Maid by Nita Prose. Loved this! Reminiscent of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, The Maid has a funny, smart, pure narrator in Molly Gray. She is neurodivergent and has learned a lot about how to read people by living with her Gran and from friends and acquaintances in her job as a hard-working maid at a fancy hotel. One of the hotel’s guests turns up dead in a room Molly is cleaning and she’s a prime suspect but she works behind the scenes to find out what really happened and prove she was innocent. Propulsive plot, well-drawn characters. I can picture this as a movie. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the chance to read and review an arc of Nina Prose’s great novel.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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 I loved this book but also found it to be a struggle at times. I particularly loved the friendship between Sam and Sadie woven throughout, but found the middle-to-late sections more work to get through. I am not a gamer and much of the book includes the video games that the characters work on, which I did find interesting. Most of all, I love Zevin’s writing and the way she describes the inner life of her characters. (I loved her book Young Jane Young). Still want to read her other novels.