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This was a fun romance between Ledi, a no-nonsense graduate student who grew up in the foster system and doesn’t know she’s essentially African nobility, and Thabiso, prince of her home country who was betrothed to her when they were young children. When Ledi ignores multiple emails telling her she’s betrothed to an African prince, blowing them off as spam, Thabiso travels to her in
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I went into this book somewhat blind, expecting another fantasy-quest type story like we had in Shadow & Bone. So I was very pleasantly surprised to find myself reading a heist novel. Who doesn’t love a heist? I do think you should read the Shadow & Bone trilogy before starting this one, to give you a better understanding of the world and the Grisha. Kaz
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This was my first Kristin Hannah, and I wish I hadn’t waited so long! It’s 1974, and 13-year old Leni is living Washington state with her mother Cora and her father Ernt, a Vietnam vet with PTSD (which of course there wasn’t help for back then). But life is hard, and when Ernt finds out that a man he was in the war with has
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This was a really interesting collection of short stories, written by an anonymous North Korean author mostly in the early 1990s. The stories take place both before and after the death of Kim Il-Sung and during the beginning of the North Korean famine. I thought it did a great job of illustrating the oppression that most people in North Korea were living under at that
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