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AstaLaVista

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Cozy Fantasy
Level 4
My Taste
The Art of Racing in the Rain
All the Bright Places
Daughter of No Worlds (The War of Lost Hearts, #1)
Don't Let the Forest In
Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2)
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Spinning Silver
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  • Green and Deadly Things
    AstaLaVista
    May 17, 2026
    2.5
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 2.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.0
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    Really interesting premise, that just fell flat for me. Magic system wasn't explained well enough, relationships felt a little shallow and unrealistic. The "plot twists"/Big reveals were also really predictable. I disliked the fmc, she felt very immature and like a teenage boy wrote her

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  • Green and Deadly Things
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    Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)

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    The Blood Trials (The Blood Gift Duology, #1)

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    Simon Books giveaway

    Artifacts

    Artifacts

    Natalie Lemle

    For readers of The Cloisters and Counterfeit, Natalie Lemle’s debut novel offers an insider’s view into the world of stolen artifacts and the hidden networks that link museums to organized crime, when a woman is forced to remember the summer she spent on an archaeological dig in Italy, as everyone she knew then may now be in danger. Successful trusts and estates attorney Lena Connolly is asked by a colleague to assist on a case: the Italian government claims an artifact was looted and sold to a museum illegally and is seeking repatriation. The object in question is a cup made of dichroic glass, which would have been rare even in Ancient Rome, let alone thousands of years later. Lena has done everything she can to put the study abroad summer she spent on an archaeological dig in the Italian Alps behind her. Her dreams of being an archaeologist shattered when her mentor Cyrille disappeared and her enigmatic boyfriend Giamma went dark, but with this new case, the past comes roaring back. Told in alternating timelines, Artifacts follows young Lena as she falls in love with both archaeology and Giamma on the streets of Torino while her adult self pieces together what truly happened on the dig, now a fully restored Roman villa with World Heritage status. The dichroic cup, Lena discovers, may have been taken from the very site she helped unearth. Powerful and exuberant, Natalie Lemle’s Artifacts brings readers behind the museum glass and asks questions about cultural heritage and the historical preservation of our shared sense of humanity.

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    Hey, hey! I've got a question for the class. For those that read multiple books at the same time, do you have a method for doing so (ie: read a chapter of each or read only one each day, etc.) or do you just go at it randomly?

    I never thought I'd have this struggle, but I want to read all the things all the time and lately, even as I read/listen to one book, I find myself thinking of one or more other books. (Apparently my ADHD isn't as managed as it's been in the past! 🤣)

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    The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

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