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I love how Suzanne Collins connects her characters to Hellenistic (specifically Roman usually) figures. She did it in the original trilogy with names like Seneca, Cinna, and Caesar, and I’ve already picked up Pliny and Pontius in this one. Plus Arachne was a figure in a Greek Myth. At least in the trilogy, the roles and fates of these characters often mirrored those of their namesakes so it’ll be interesting to see if that continues here.
Edit: Oh wow, there’s a LOT of mythological and historical names in the group of tributes. Io, Persephone, Festus, Iphigenia, Apollo, Diana, Pliny, Juno, Hilarius, Gaius, Arachne… and those are just the ones I’m picking up automatically.
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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
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Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
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Sweet, creative, and festive! A unique take on Dickens’s classic concept of a Ghost of Christmas Past, with a more complicated FMC and some steamy scenes. The pacing was great and the characters’ connection felt genuine and natural for the most part.
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Opinion: I do not want or need a Christmas/Holiday series. I’ve read two in a row now that apparently are part of/are going to be a series, but I’m really just looking for quick, festive, standalone stories atm. so I have no plans on reading any further than the first. The problem is that when there’s more books they never wrap the endings up nicely so I’m always left wanting!
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Opinion: I do not want or need a Christmas/Holiday series. I’ve read two in a row now that apparently are part of/are going to be a series, but I’m really just looking for quick, festive, standalone stories atm. so I have no plans on reading any further than the first. The problem is that when there’s more books they never wrap the endings up nicely so I’m always left wanting!
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Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)
B.K. Borison
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Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
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The writing was very “meh”. Not awful, but I did not believe that the MC was an English teacher because the sophistication of the language she used just wasn’t there. The pacing was great and the story was cute. I definitely stayed engaged despite my complaints.
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Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan