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I read 10 books in November.
Favorites:
Red City
The Summer War
Real Americans

I read the Summer War last night. It's short and lovely and I read it in one sitting. It's very much a fairy tale told by the youngest of three siblings. All three children are very much involved in this story. I enjoyed it very much.

Also this book finished my goodreads reading challenge.😁

I won a Goodreads giveaway!! 🎉

This is only the 2nd or 3rd time I‘ve ever won one!

Naomi Novik can keep me up all night reading and knock me out in under 130 pages, anytime! This exquisitely wrought fairy tale of love, vengeance, and siblinghood is an ode to the magic and power of coming together to find a new and better ending for an old and painful story. A new all-time favorite.

93/100 For such a short book, it definitely packs a wallop. It's a beautiful, lyrical fairy tale of love, loss, grief, revenge and redemption. Unlike Automatic Noodle, which was too short and left me wanting more, this is just the right size for the story the author wants to tell. 4.75/5 #Read2025

When Celia comes into her witch power just in time to curse her brother, the person she loves most in the world, she sets the stage for a quietly powerful tale of honor, war, and the importance of caring about people. There's a bit of a parable here, revealed in a wonderfully surprising moment that made me oooo.

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With The Summer War Novik returns to the realm of fairytales, a nice departure from her Scholomance trilogy which never really quite worked for me. This book is a novella & aspects of it are arguably underdeveloped—some things are introduced & left as they are with little additional explanation—but this quiet book about family, love, sacrifice, & learning from one‘s mistakes is more satisfying than not. I enjoyed it.

A very sweet and intricate fairytale.

Lovely but too short! I‘d guess this is a novella or even novelette rather than a full novel—you may notice it took me only three days to read. It had a fairy-tale feel that I adored but between that and the length it felt almost like a prologue rather than its own story. I wonder if she plans more in this world? It is a fun world (like an inverse Spinning Silver, summerlings rather than Staryk), and wonderful & very smart characters.

Squeeeeee 😍😍😍