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Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (2021, Independently Published)
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in London as a gentleman of …
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (2021, Independently Published)
An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in London as a gentleman of …
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to …
It didn't seem that this book was written with as much attention or focus as the other volumes in the series. I did enjoy it, but was expecting better.
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to the destruction of two suns …
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a …
It felt like it took a turn and lost the thread. Or perhaps it was two different books.
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents …
A thief in a city controlled by industrialized magic joins forces with a rare honest …
Main character becomes almost god-like through the narrative but somehow dwelled in obscurity for years before. Some set piece scenes were out of place and others abbreviated.
A thief in a city controlled by industrialized magic joins forces with a rare honest police officer to stop an …
A startlingly original novel about a young English graduate who takes a position as a …
At some level the confusion and lies are overwhelming. It definitely doesn't help that the main character is an entitled unrepentant jerk.
A startlingly original novel about a young English graduate who takes a position as a teacher at a private school …
A startlingly original novel about a young English graduate who takes a position as a teacher at a private school …
By the third episode I was getting miffed and the ending was disappointing. A more continuous narrative with fuller world-building and depth to the character development would have helped I think. Everything felt like a sketch with only one section completed.
Engrossing post apocalyptic book that told entirely in a vividly degenerated post-English that the reader is left to decipher as …
