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“The past devours those naive enough to forget it.” The first in a fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction. For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his … Continue reading Pages Review: “A Song of Wraiths and Ruin” by Roseanne A. Brown
"There's a kind of freedom in defiance." Sirscha Ashwyn comes from nothing, but she’s intent on becoming something. After years of training to become the queen’s next royal spy, her plans are derailed when shamans attack and kill her best friend Saengo. And then Sirscha, somehow, restores Saengo to life. Unveiled as the first soulguide … Continue reading INTL Blog Tour: Forest of Souls – Shamanborn #1 by Lori M. Lee (ARC)
“Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other.” ― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things MAY WRAP-UP How are you? We have witnessed so much evil in the world recently that it seems too trivial to … Continue reading May Wrap-up + Musings
"We don't remember what we want to remember. We remember what we can't forget." Journalist Taddeo reports on the risks women take to fulfill their sexual desires. The result of eight years and thousands of hours of interviews, the book describes how each of her three subjects is undone by an intimate relationship that eventually … Continue reading Pages Review: “Three Women” by Lisa Taddeo
“There was a great difference, I said, between the things I wanted and the things I could apparently have, and until I had finally and forever made my peace with that fact, I had decided to want nothing at all.” A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing … Continue reading Pages Review: “Outline” by Rachel Cusk
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