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Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is the first book in The Mars Trilogy. It opens with a celebration that is all about the progress being made to turn Mars into an actual habitable planet. The celebration quickly goes downhill when one of the original settlers is attacked and killed. It then jumps back to…
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In Spellbound, book two of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia, the adventure continues for Jake Sullivan and Faye Vierra as things get rather dark. It opens with an attack on the new president, FDR, by an active magic user but this is also an attack that works to frame the Grimnoir society and thus…
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This is a little weird to say but I think I found a world where I would not want to live. Ink and Bone is the first book in The Great Library series by Rachel Caine. It is based in a world that is ruled, albeit indirectly, by the Great Library of Alexandria. Apparently here…
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Sometimes you just need to read a good adventure story and Relentless Blades, book one of the Prophecies of Zarune, by Russell Carroll is just that. It tells the story of Grimlock, known as Grim, a young ranger tormented by the humans he is trying to protect and desperately trying to find his place in…
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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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