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Narrated by:
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Peter Ganim
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Ali Araghi
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This generations-spanning novel carries one extraordinary family to the brink of the Iranian Revolution - and marks the debut of a literary talent to watch
As a child living in his family's apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather's every mesmerizing world. On the day of his father's death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse...and the boy's own fated role in the story.
Ahmad grows up to suspect that something unseen must be interfering with his family, as he struggles to hold them together through decades of famine, loss, and political turmoil in Iran. As the world transforms around him, each turn of Ahmad's life is a surprise: from street brawler to father of two impossibly gifted daughters; from radical poet to politician with a target on his back. These lives, and the many unforgettable stories alongside his, converge and catch fire at the center of the Revolution.
A sweeping, multi-generational epic, this stunning debut heralds the arrival of a unique new literary voice. Exploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism, The Immortals of Tehran is a story of the incantatory power of words and the revolutionary sparks of love, family, and poetry - set against the indifferent, relentless march of time.
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This could have been so good...
- By Amazon Customer on 09-01-20
By: Leah Franqui
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Boys, Beasts & Men
- By: Sam J. Miller
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Krystal Hammond, Alex Boyles, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
In Nebula Award-winning author Sam J. Miller’s devastating debut short-fiction collection—featuring an introduction by Amal El-Mohtar—queer infatuation, inevitable heartbreak, and brutal revenge seamlessly intertwine. Whether innocent, guilty, or not even human, the boys, beasts, and men roaming through Miller’s gorgeously crafted worlds can destroy listeners, yet leave them wanting more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story within a story!
- By Gabriel on 01-16-25
By: Sam J. Miller
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The Betrayals
- A Novel
- By: Bridget Collins
- Narrated by: Bridget Collins, Sam Woolf, Sarah Ovens
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
At Montverre, an ancient and elite academy hidden high in the mountains, society's best and brightest are trained for excellence in the grand jeu—the great game—an arcane and mysterious competition that combines music, art, math, poetry, and philosophy. Léo Martin once excelled at Monteverre, but lost his passion for scholarly pursuits after a violent tragedy. He turned to politics instead, and became a rising star in the ruling party, until a small act of conscience cost him his career. Now, he has been exiled back to Monteverre, his fate uncertain.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It was confusing
- By Hannah Blumenthal on 09-03-22
By: Bridget Collins
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Skinship
- Stories
- By: Yoon Choi
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Intae Kim, Jennifer Kim, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend's painful past when a church revival comes to a nearby town ... A woman in an arranged marriage struggles to connect with the son she hid from her husband for years ... A well-meaning sister unwittingly reunites an abuser with his victims. Through an indelible array of lives, Yoon Choi explores where first and second generations either clash or find common ground,
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite from this year!
- By Marla Lev on 12-14-21
By: Yoon Choi
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Greenland
- A Novel
- By: David Santos Donaldson
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4 out of 5 stars 24
In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed’s story. Kip has only three weeks until his publisher’s deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don't end there.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected story with literary depth
- By Hannah Aron on 06-01-24
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Booth
- By: Karen Joy Fowler
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 319
In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- By E. Creagh on 06-20-22
By: Karen Joy Fowler
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Latitudes of Longing
- A Novel
- By: Shubhangi Swarup
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
A spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert, to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her revolutionary son; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a turtle who transforms first into a boat and then a woman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A debut that will be hard to follow up
- By Amazon Customer on 07-22-23
By: Shubhangi Swarup
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When the Moon Is Low
- A Novel
- By: Nadia Hashimi
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Neil Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Mahmoud’s passion for his wife, Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she’s ever known. But their happy, middle-class world implodes when their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rises to power. Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister’s family in England. With forged papers and help from kind strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unfinished?
- By James R. Hyde on 10-25-21
By: Nadia Hashimi
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Lights All Night Long
- A Novel
- By: Lydia Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 223
Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. But all is not right in Ilya's world: He's consumed by the fate of his older brother, Vladimir, the magnetic rebel to Ilya's dutiful wunderkind, back in their tiny Russian hometown. Just before Ilya left, the murders of three young women rocked the town's usual calm, and Vladimir found himself in prison. With the help of Sadie, who has secrets of her own, Ilya embarks on a mission to prove Vladimir's innocence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't Stop Listening
- By Randi M. on 04-16-19
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Home Remedies
- Stories
- By: Xuan Juliana Wang
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho, Tim Chiou, Feodor Chin, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
Xuan Juliana Wang's remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions. In stories of love, family, and friendship, here are the voices, faces, and stories of a new generation never before captured in fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jubilant journeys
- By Leo on 05-14-19
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The Golem of Brooklyn
- A Novel
- By: Adam Mansbach
- Narrated by: Danny Hoch
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis. But Len Bronstein is no rabbi—he’s a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school, gets extremely stoned, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems.
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4 out of 5 stars
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THE book for November, 2023!
- By Anonymous User on 11-19-23
By: Adam Mansbach
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My Year Abroad
- A Novel
- By: Chang-rae Lee
- Narrated by: Lawrence Kao
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 273
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Story4 out of 5 stars 244
Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Worst narration ever
- By Unhappy Sirius Camper on 02-07-21
By: Chang-rae Lee
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At Least You Have Your Health
- By: Madi Sinha
- Narrated by: Sooneela Nankani
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Dr. Maya Rao is a gynecologist trying to balance a busy life. With three young children, a career, and a happy marriage, she should be grateful—on paper, she has it all. But after a disastrous encounter with an entitled patient, Maya is forced to walk away from the city hospital where she’s spent her entire career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun story illuminating the wellness industry
- By Barbara S on 04-29-22
By: Madi Sinha
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A Pillar of Iron
- A Novel of Ancient Rome
- By: Taylor Caldwell
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 33 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 83
From his birth in 106 BC in the hill town of Arpinum, Cicero, the educated son of a wealthy member of the equestrian order, is destined for greatness. From his tumultuous family life to his tenuous alliance with Julius Caesar to a fateful love affair with the Roman empress Livia and, finally, to the political role that will make him a target of powerful enemies, A Pillar of Iron is the story of Cicero's legacy as one the greatest influences on Western civilization.
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1 out of 5 stars
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wrong genre
- By Amazon Customer on 06-27-21
By: Taylor Caldwell
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A Dreadful Splendor
- A Novel
- By: B.R. Myers
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 308
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 308
In Victorian London, Genevieve Timmons poses as a spiritualist to swindle wealthy mourners—until one misstep lands her in a jail cell awaiting the noose. Then a stranger arrives to make her a peculiar offer. The lord he serves, Mr. Pemberton, has been inconsolable since the tragic death of his beautiful bride-to-be. If Genevieve can perform a séance persuasive enough to bring the young lord peace, she will win her freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- By Kimberly A. Minardi on 09-20-22
By: B.R. Myers
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The Winged Tiara
- By: J'nell Ciesielski
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
It was a match made in champagne-soaked heaven, but all too soon the bubbles dried up and divorce papers were issued just in time to ring in the end of the Great War. Jewel thieves and ex-lovers Jasper and Esme find themselves circulating among the elite of British aristocracy where the diamond-lined pockets are ripe for picking. But when the last Valkyrie tiara ever created becomes the talk of the season neither will stop to obtain it, not even when they inadvertently find themselves in the middle of a game of cat-and-mouse where their lives are suddenly at stake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- By kimseyg on 10-30-24
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The Great Mistake
- A Novel
- By: Jonathan Lee
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing - on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the 13th - shook the city. Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Complete misfire of a biography.
- By Smith's Rock on 06-20-21
By: Jonathan Lee
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Independence
- A Novel
- By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 184
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 184
Set during the partition of British India in 1947, a time when neighbor was pitted against neighbor and families were torn apart, award-winning author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel brings to life the sweeping story of three sisters caught up in events beyond their control, their unbreakable bond, and their incredible struggle against powerful odds.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A very interesting story, good but a tad flat
- By Naturegirl09 on 06-25-23
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- Anonymous User
- 08-22-24
Unique story with many characters
I really enjoyed this book and found the fictional/fantasy parts of it different and interesting especially as they meshed into the otherwise normal world. There are a lot of characters and the author and reader both made it easy to know whose point of view I was hearing. I have read other books where I get lost in the transition and this was not the case with this book.
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