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Earlier this year, I attended the midnight release for House of Flame and Shadow, the third installment in Sarah J. Maas’s Crescent City series. I dragged along two friends (one of which was in the middle of book two, House of Sky and Breath, and one who hadn’t read the series at all), and we
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As the third and final installment in Olivie Blake’s Atlas trilogy, The Atlas Complex had a tall order to fill as the conclusion to a thematically intricate and character-driven series. And while this conclusion was just as compulsively readable as its predecessors, the meat of the story tasted familiar in a way that was slightly…
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R.F. Kuang’s Babel: An Arcane History was a pretty good read—if a little imbalanced. About the Book Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and
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At the start of this year, I decided that it was finally time to read Cassandra Clare’s fifth Shadowhunter’s series, The Last Hours. The Last Hours trilogy—which includes Chain of Gold, Chain of Iron, and Chain of Thorns—is Clare’s second historical fiction series set in the wider urban fantasy world of the Shadowhunter Chronicles. I
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I picked up The City of Brass on whim with the intent to only read the first chapter while trying to determine to my next read. To my surprise, I read the first 80 pages that night and ended up discovering one of my favorite fantasy books of the year. About the Book Nahri has
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I gave in. The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake took the online bookish world by storm in 2021 and it’s been on my radar ever since. All I knew about the book was that it was described as adult dark academia, but even with such little information, I was still extremely intrigued by the hold
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