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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster: A Novel | Mirinae Lee

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4⭐
This was interesting. I spent much of the time wondering why the book was organized the way it was. It didn't make a lot of sense to me how the story was told. I am not sure if this story will really stick with me. I wonder if I put too much pressure on WPF long list books to really blow me away. But overall I liked the story and the writing.

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Hangman: A Novel | Maya Binyam

so-so

This is a case of "I see what you did there, well done, this just isnt for me"

Binyam did a fantastic job creating a fever dream of a book, following an unnamed narrator. It takes a minute to understand the purpose of his journey, but the unfolding is just obvious enough. Unfortunatly for me, I got bored about half in. ?.

ChaoticMissAdventures Things started to feel repetitive, I understood the catch of the book, and I was a bit tired of living in the fever dream. I scanned the last bit of this.

I do think that Binyam has crafted an excellent book, that just wasn't for me, but I will be picking up her next book as I think she is super talented 12mo

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dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 12mo

BarbaraBB Just finished it. 🤨 12mo

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Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan

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4.5 Stars

This had me captivated from the get go, and I was squeezing in reading at every moment I could find.

A very powerful family story. I was alive during the Sri Lankan civil war but am completely ignorant of it until now.

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ChaoticMissAdventures I loved how Ganeshananthan put us into impossible situations. No one is "good" and no one completely unlovable. People do horrendous things during war, and people do amazing things during war. Sashi was a perfectly drawn charcter - strong enough to make decisions and stick to them no matter others opinions, but also relalistic in her questioning of herself, and the situations she is in.

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ChaoticMissAdventures I thought the relationships were drawn with great balance - you can see how much she knows or doesn't know a person by how they are drawn in the story. We don't know the thoughts or motives of everyone, just as Sashi does not 12mo

ChaoticMissAdventures My favorite from the long list so far. 12mo

BarbaraBB Looking forward to this one. My favorite so far is