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A review by illyanadallas222
A Beggar's Kingdom by Paullina Simons
4.0
Review coming soon.This series was probably the most unique and extraordinary series I’ve ever read. Probably in all of 2021 thus far.
When I first picked this series up, I was probably too baffled by how “extra-ordinary” it was. There were such emphasis on locations, entertainment references, literary references and everybody was so original, that I found it all quite jarring at first. Not to mention how I also found the female lead a bit too much of hot mess. So I put it down, and promised to start it again, when I wanted to read and learn the lives of such ‘full’ characters another day. Come April, I picked it up again, and given my state of mind I couldn’t put it down. And subconsciously I started annotating locations, restaurants, books and streets I wanted to journey through, thanks to this series. Julian, the male protagonist was probably the male version of ‘Tatiana’ from Paullina’s Opus Magnus, The Bronze Horseman. Dare I say he is the modern male inspiration for all us women in 2021: Kind, handsome, humble, relentless, unassuming, a boxer (
When I first picked this series up, I was probably too baffled by how “extra-ordinary” it was. There were such emphasis on locations, entertainment references, literary references and everybody was so original, that I found it all quite jarring at first. Not to mention how I also found the female lead a bit too much of hot mess. So I put it down, and promised to start it again, when I wanted to read and learn the lives of such ‘full’ characters another day. Come April, I picked it up again, and given my state of mind I couldn’t put it down. And subconsciously I started annotating locations, restaurants, books and streets I wanted to journey through, thanks to this series. Julian, the male protagonist was probably the male version of ‘Tatiana’ from Paullina’s Opus Magnus, The Bronze Horseman. Dare I say he is the modern male inspiration for all us women in 2021: Kind, handsome, humble, relentless, unassuming, a boxer (