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48 reviews

Fire Country by David Estes

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adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Protection and Reversal Magick (Revised and Updated Edition): A Witch's Defense Manual by Jason Miller

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challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

The Quareia Apprentice Study Guide by Josephine McCarthy

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hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

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dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A really interesting concept. I loved the addition of the character’s novel, foreshadowing. But really inconsistent with the disappeared items. Fruit disappears, but later they talk about jam, eat jelly, make metaphors and thoughts relating to fruit. Photos disappear, but the memory police still ask for photo IDs? however, the ending was good. It made sense, it was tragic. I feel like this book and the author have a deep understanding of the feeling of melting away, and that was really well done.

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The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig

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adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

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challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

this book changed me. it is so beautiful and poetic. it makes the reader care so deeply for such abstract characters and concepts. its not a book to speed through but it definitely does make sense

Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien

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medium-paced