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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

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Theory about Amber | Chapter 13

Theory time! I’m in the middle of chapter 13, where Althea just entered Amber’s shop and is picking out a bead.

Could it be that Amber is the Fool? 🤔 Hear me out… Her eyes are gold.. Fool’s eyes were turning gold in Assassin’s Quest. (If I remember correctly). In combination with her other coloring. Talks vaguely, talks about fate… Carves intricate wooden carvings.. Sounds like someone else we know.
That on top of the fact that Starling said the Fool was a woman. Could it be? Or maybe I’m just seeing things because I miss the Fool 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Theory time! I’m in the middle of chapter 13, where Althea just entered Amber’s shop and is picking out a bead.

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The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

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I don’t know why but I feel like it’s taking me FOREVER to get through this book. I felt the same way with One Dark Window and I have no idea why. I might end up shifting from the ebook to the audiobook to see if that helps.

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Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

Robin Hobb

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the Vestrit family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will.... From the Paperback edition.

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Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

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Dec 22, 2025

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

Brilliant and brutal.

I’d like to say something profound but I am left speechless

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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

Margaret Atwood

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now… Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.

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Dec 17, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

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A beautiful tale, with the potential of being a 5 star read, if it hadn’t become so repetitive in the second half.

I love V.E Schwab, her writing is amazing, the characters she creates are intriguing. Her prose is very enjoyable to read, and the past and present, short chapters make for a dynamic, easy read that keeps you interested.

My only gripe with this was that I wanted more from the flashbacks. She meets a stranger, tries to leave a mark, they forget, and then oftentimes Luc is there and they enter their tug of war game. Rinse and repeat. I understand this is her curse, but I just wanted more. I wanted it to go deeper. A different angle. A more historical take. You have 300 years of history to dive into, but the flashbacks always came back to the same thing and stay pretty surface level. A brief mention of war, but we never really dive into what that actually means.

But even if I was left wanting more, it was still a very worthwhile, beautiful read. 4.25 ⭐️

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Victoria Schwab

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

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