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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
“Desire is the cause of all suffering. All Zhu had ever desired was to live. Now she felt the pure strength of that desire inside her, as inseparable as her breath or qi, and knew she would suffer from it. She couldn’t even begin to imagine the awful magnitude of the suffering that would be…
14th century, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, Adult, ALIENATION, anti-hero, Asian Australian author, battles, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, China, court intrigue, f/f, FANTASY, friendships, gender identity, ghosts/spirits, HISTORICAL FICTION, identity, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, loneliness, MAGIC, monasteries, mongolia, myths, netgalley, political intrigue, published in 2021, queer, read in 2021, RETELLINGS, revenge, sapphic, She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan, terrific prose, war -
Man of My Time by Dalia Sofer
“After nearly a decade of delirious revenge, rations, war, and death, we saw the world in shades of blood.” In Man of My Time Dalia Sofer makes a fascinating and unsettling inquiry into morality. The novel is centred on and narrated by Hamid Mozaffarian. When Hamid, a former interrogator for the Iranian regime, travels to…
1970s, 1990s, 1st pov, 20th century, 3 STARS, Adult, ALIENATION, America, anti-hero, brothers, CHILDHOOD, Contemporary, cultural dissonance, Dalia Sofer, existentialism, family, fathers & sons, female authors, GRIEF, growing up, HISTORICAL FICTION, intergenerational, iran, IRANIAN AMERICAN AUTHOR, loneliness, Man of My Time, MEMORY, philosophical, politics, psychological, published in 2020, read in 2020 -
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins — book review
It’s a yikes from me. Did the world really need The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes? I think not. Full of unnecessary exposition and weighed down by self-indulgent fanservice, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a train-wreck of a novel. The story lacks rhyme or reason, things happen only to advance the plot (regardless…
1 STAR, 3rd pov, AMERICAN AUTHOR, anti-hero, books i hate, Coriolanus Snow, DEATH, dystopia, female authors, hunger games, Hyped new releases, morality, prequels, published in 2020, read in 2020, SCI-FI, SPECULATIVE FICTION, survival, Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the hunger games, thg, violence, YOUNG ADULT
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