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Pioneer Summer by Katerina Silvanova, Elena Malisova
5.0

Thank god for happy (or maybe hopeful?) endings!

Some of the language, especially the dialogue, was a bit awkward, thought I cannot be sure if this is because of the original Russian or the translation. Still, I devoured this story and a setting I hadn’t really read fiction about before.

Yurka’s and Volodya’s story had echoes of Call Me By Your Name, but this romance is wholly original. I will be thinking about those two characters for a while.

Absolutely loved this. All the love and kudos to the original authors - Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova who fled Russia after the backlash this book received (as well as the war against Ukraine).