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joreadsalot 's review for:
Vita Nostra
by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko
Thank you to everyone who pushed me to read this book, despite being a long-ish one, it was totally worth it. It sat on my TBR for almost 1 year, but I’ve finally done it and it is now my number one book in the ‘most confusing, but absolutely brilliant’ category. I find it difficult to describe it and place within a genre because it’s got a bit of everything - it’s a coming of age story with amazing character (and world) build, mixing reality with fantasy, but in a way that even though you can’t exactly relate to the metamorphosis element of the story, the characters’ struggles, wishes, thoughts feel very real. I’ve definitely felt SEEN in the way Sasha struggles with her mother and the initial relationship they have turns into complete avoidance and lies (her mother was actually the only character I truly disliked).
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I don’t want to give away from the actual plot, not only because I’d butcher any attempt of taking you through the plot, but also because it’s so worth discovering it yourself; I knew almost nothing about it and it was a great feeling to go through the plot twists and everything.
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I’m also off to read the second one which is much shorter and hopefully it gives a bit more clarity to the whole world, buttttt let’s see.
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I don’t want to give away from the actual plot, not only because I’d butcher any attempt of taking you through the plot, but also because it’s so worth discovering it yourself; I knew almost nothing about it and it was a great feeling to go through the plot twists and everything.
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I’m also off to read the second one which is much shorter and hopefully it gives a bit more clarity to the whole world, buttttt let’s see.