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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is an incredibly fascinating if incredibly disturbing story. It tells the story of Charlie, a young man who is probably in his twenties and who has an extremely low IQ. However, he is given the opportunity to undergo an experimental procedure that should increase his IQ to at or…
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In The Kingdom of Copper, book two of the Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty, we return to the intricacies of djinn politics. It picks up five years after the end of the previous book, The City of Brass, with Ali having spent those five years bringing water and growth to the Geziris. Dara has…
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This book is a return to a previous world as The Castle of Llyr is the third book in The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. It opens on young Taran being told that his friend Eilonwy must go away to learn how to be a proper princess, something that she is unable to do at…
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is the first book in the Fractal Verse by Christopher Paolini. It tells the story of Kira Navarez, a young exobiologist who is working on a survey mission on a supposedly uncolonized planet. When she stumbles upon an unknown alien relic things start getting difficult though. The rest…
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote is the story of Holly Golightly, a young woman who seems incapable of taking anything seriously. She is a former actress who has moved to New York and views the world through an extremely naïve and innocent perspective. As she likes to point out, nothing bad can happen at…
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We move forward a decade or two with The Winter of the World, book two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. As Stalin consolidates power in Russia and Roosevelt becomes President while Hitler rises to power we meet the next generation of the same families we met in the first book, Fall of Giants.…
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The Family Fortuna is the YA debut novel for Lindsay Eagar. It tells the story of Avita, the youngest member of The Family Fortuna which runs the circus of the same name. Avita is the star of the circus due to her rather feathered and monstrous status. Having been born with a beak and feathers…
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If you ever want to read a book that makes you question reality than Devil in the Pale Moonlight by D. Hollis Anderson might just fit the bill. It tells the story of Tomahawk O’Murtaugh, a young man living in a futuristic Texas, after they have seceded from the United States. He works as a…
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How to Survive a Horror Story by Mallory Arnold is a pretty great horror story. The story opens with a group of authors being invited to a will reading for Mortimer Queen, a legendary horror author and acquaintance to each of them. However, in order to attend the reading the seven authors must spend the…
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We are coming into October now and thus we are coming up on my all-time favorite holiday, Halloween. Because of that I have decided to share three books that I have read in the last year that should help you get in the mood for the holiday. Now I know that not everyone is as…
The Draconic Bibliophile
