The Poppy War is the first book in the Poppy War series by R. F. Kuang and starts the story of Rin, a war orphan from an extremely rural and poor province of the Nikara Empire who aces the Keju, an empire wide assessment, and earns a place at Sinegard. Entering the military academy she…
This list was interesting to pull together because I wasn’t entirely sure I was going to do it but it ended up coming together fairly easily. Facing your past or confronting your past is something that most people have to do at some point in their lives, though I will admit that very few of…
This next book is one that was silently disturbing. The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon is about a serial killer named Aidan Thomas. However, the story is not told from his perspective or from the perspective of the police. It is told by Rachel, the young woman who he has held hostage in the back…
Still Life With Crows is another Agent Pendergast novel by Preston and Child. This one opens in Kansas where a small town named Medicine Creek has its first murder in several decades. Not only is it a murder but it is one that is rife with speculation due to the curious arrangement of the body…
The Alchemyst is the first book in Michael Scott’s series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Sophie Newman is a young teenager staying in California for the summer and working in a small coffee shop. Her twin brother Josh works across the street in a small bookshop. When Dr. Dee and his golems attack…
The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield is book one of the series The Apollo Murders. Kazimieras Zemeckis, known as Kaz, is a former military pilot turned flight controller who is tasked with overseeing the upcoming NASA launch of Apollo 18. Something that is complicated by the Soviet Union launching Almaz, a spy space station with…
Solar by Ian McEwan is a surprisingly funny novel considering what happens in it. The book opens in 2000 with Michael Beard as he works on starting up a government run institute to research alternative energy sources. He was chosen purely because he won a Nobel Prize for physics a few decades prior but his…
The White Queen, book two of the Plantagenet and Tudor series by Philippa Gregory, picks up not long after the previous book The Lady of the Rivers. This time it follows the life of Elizabeth Woodville, eldest daughter of Jacquetta of Burgundy, who has recently been widowed when her husband, Lord Grey, was killed during…
The Borrowers Aloft is the fourth novel in the Borrowers series by Mary Norton and picks up their adventures an unspecified length of time after the end of the previous one. The Clock family are now living in Fordham, a small village made by Mr. Pott, where they seem to be having a nice peaceful…
I think this next book is one that probably everyone has heard of even if they haven’t read it yet. Animal Farm by George Orwell is a story about just that, a farm that is overtaken by animals. Mr. Jones owns a small property known as Manor Farm where he has a small crop and…
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