What Fiction are you reading this week, July 6, 2025?

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Still reading Heartbreak Hotel. It's a good story but it puts me to sleep after a dozen or so pages. Or maybe it's just the heat doing that.

Listening to The Pretender by Jo Harkin. Saw it described as, "Demon Copperhead meets Wolf Hall" and I couldn't resist that. "A transporting feat of imagination and storytelling...Original, vivid, and witty." I'm loving it.
"Inspired by a footnote to history -- the true story of the little-known Simnel, who was a figurehead of the 1487 Yorkist rebellion and ended up working as a spy in the court of King Henry VII -- The Pretender is historical fiction at its finest, a gripping, exuberant, rollicking portrait of British monarchy and life within the court, with a cast of unforgettable heroes and villains drawn from fifteenth-century England."