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Reading a Thousand Lives
I'm a goodreads refugee. I read horror, classics, literary, science fiction, YA, weird, regency romances, historical fiction, history, science, fantasy and random bits and pieces of every genre, it seems like. I don't do as much reading and reviewing as I used to, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things.
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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
A Dance with Dragons
Deep Blue
Crystal Fire
Fireblood
Mistress to the Crown
The Children of Henry VIII
The Illicit Love of a Courtesan
Lost in a Royal Kiss
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
Stung
I really enjoyed the fact that we get to learn about what happened to the world along with the main character. Fiona doesn't remember anything about what happened to the world, and we don't know anything about it either. This way, instead of having the main character have paragraphs of exposition we get to learn about it in a natural way--watching Fiona's experiences and the short, simple explanations given by other characters. I also like the tie-in to current events. With the population of bees decreasing this seems like a plausable future outcome. A lot of dystopians rely on the idea that its a different time period therefore anything is possible. The romance is well written and nice, but nothing too special about it. The end was kind of boring and felt rather anti-climatic and kind of sudden. All I could think is "really? that's it?" It's pretty good though. Recommended for fans of dystopians and post-apocalyptic YA.
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