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a publié une critique de The Actual Star par Monica Byrne

Monica Byrne: The Actual Star (Hardcover, 2021, Harper Voyager)

The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents —telling …

The Actual Star

This one gave me Cloud Atlas vibes.

It's set across three timelines: ancient Maya, contemporary, and 1000 years in the future - I enjoyed the future segments and worldbuilding the most.

I feel like one needs to have a solid grounding in latine culture to get the most out of this.

a publié une critique de The Healers' Road par S. E. Robertson (The Balance Academy, #1)

S. E. Robertson: The Healers' Road

Agna had looked forward to her overseas assignment for the last four years. It was …

The Healers' Road

The Healers' Road isn't my usual type of book (although you might think differently if you witnessed the T. Kingfisher bibliography pour through my timeline), but I enjoyed it very much.

It's very much a book about interpersonal relationships, decorated in a vaguely fantastic setting, and the author wonderfully illustrated concepts like how uncommunicated assumptions can poison your interactions with someone, or how hiding things we're afraid of or embarrassed by often lead to us suffering more.

I'm looking forward to the second part, although I think I'll need to cleanse my palate with something faster-paced first.

a publié une critique de The Echo Wife par Sarah Gailey

Sarah Gailey: The Echo Wife (Paperback, 2021, Hodder & Stoughton)

I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there …

Fantastic!

I loved the sense of creeping doom as I unraveled each drip of exposition.

At first I couldn't see how this and Upright Women Wanted could possibly be from the same author, but eventually similar themes around trust, betrayal, and self-loathing/-punishment emerged.