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A review by unabridgedchick
The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis
5.0
Eleven billion stars.
I don't recall why I requested this book from the library, but I sat down with it and then looked up and it was finished and two days had passed.
Right now I'm in the book hangover phase, in which I mostly do flappy limbs as I try to get across some salient points. I'm loathe to attempt to summarize the story lest I give away some of the deliciousness.
It's a novel of love and loyalty. It's about holding on to the parts of you that others try so desperately to grind out or erase. It's about working for goals greater than yourself, and weighing whether you can pay the price for that work.
There's impressive world-building and very clever plotting and the narrative was gorgeous to read. Our three POVs are so damn good/fascinating, each time I finished one of their chapters I had to restrain myself from skipping ahead to their next POV chapter. I hung on every word, and now that I'm done, I am totally wrecked in the best way.
I decided to buy the audiobook for my wife (Emily Woo Zeller is one of the narrators!) and I'm back-and-forth about listening to this first book or diving immediately into the second...
I don't recall why I requested this book from the library, but I sat down with it and then looked up and it was finished and two days had passed.
Right now I'm in the book hangover phase, in which I mostly do flappy limbs as I try to get across some salient points. I'm loathe to attempt to summarize the story lest I give away some of the deliciousness.
It's a novel of love and loyalty. It's about holding on to the parts of you that others try so desperately to grind out or erase. It's about working for goals greater than yourself, and weighing whether you can pay the price for that work.
There's impressive world-building and very clever plotting and the narrative was gorgeous to read. Our three POVs are so damn good/fascinating, each time I finished one of their chapters I had to restrain myself from skipping ahead to their next POV chapter. I hung on every word, and now that I'm done, I am totally wrecked in the best way.
I decided to buy the audiobook for my wife (Emily Woo Zeller is one of the narrators!) and I'm back-and-forth about listening to this first book or diving immediately into the second...