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📖🪵🥰FIVE STAR BOOK REVIEW🥰🪵📖

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🥰Thank you so much to @atriabooks for the gifted book!

📖Title: The Briars
✍️Author: Sarah Crouch
📅Pub Date: January 13, 2026

🪵Sarah Crouch’s debut book, Middletide, absolutely stole my heart last year and was my favorite book of the year. I jumped on the opportunity to read THE BRIARS the first chance I had! There’s no “sophomore slump” here at all; it’s either equal with or better than Middletide!

📖My best advice going into this book would be to not put it in a box, as it almost defies a genre label. I wouldn’t dare put the main character Annie Heston in a box either! A female game warden who isn’t intimated by any creature, human or otherwise. She spends her days chasing cougars and other wildlife, but when she happens upon dead body, her focus shifts dramatically.

🪵This book truly has it all: gorgeous writing, beautiful PNW scenery, mysterious characters, small town secrets, murders, romance, etc.

🥹I’m so glad I read it early, but also so sad that now I’m back to waiting for a new Sarah Crouch book!

📅You absolutely won’t want to miss this one when it comes out in January! Pre-order THE BRIARS by Sarah Crouch today 🎉

❓What was your last five star read?