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– C.S. Lewis
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Book Review: Thorn by Intisar Khanani
ONE PRINCESS. TWO FATES. ONE IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE. Thorn, a sprawling, rich fairytale re-telling from author Intisar Khanani, is not the first novel to retell the lesser-known fairytale of “The Goose Girl”, but it certainly does the story justice, and breathes new life into it with a beautifully complex, yet inherently good heroine, something that is…
Book Review: Lovely War by Julie Berry
“He closed his eyes tightly. ‘What I’ve done, and what I’ve seen, will always be with me.’This was the last time she would make this plea. ‘Let me, too, always be with you.’” This book is one of those that you come across every once in a while that feels almost impossible to review. It’s…
Book Review: The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
“They’ve never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart.” Wow. What a zinger of an opening line, right? Unfortunately, I’m not sure that this book really fulfilled its promise of giving us a murderous, power-hungry protagonist the way that its opening implies. This was definitely one of those books…
Escapist Miscellany 