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I'm gonna be honest here, the characters started to get jumbled to me towards the end. I had fun though, and I was just going with it. I'll likely read it again in the future and hopefully it'll make more sense.
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Goddess of the River
Vaishnavi Patel
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Goddess of the River
Vaishnavi Patel
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While I still think this is a relatively good coming of age story, I didn't love some of the language that was used. Namely when it came to characters weights or overall body sizes. Also one of the characters had a soon to be stepmother who wanted a plantation wedding, so that was a choice.
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1)
Ann Brashares
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1)
Ann Brashares
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A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
P. Djèlí Clark
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This was so scary, and it felt familiar in a way which made it worse
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I feel like I saw people collectively reacting to this book, especially the end, with saying "what the fuck" and sobbing. I honestly have nothing to add because that was my reaction too. Especially that very last sentence.
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A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
P. Djèlí Clark
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Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes