There is something magical about the combination of Stephanie Garber's narrative style, and Rebecca Soler's voice. The world created by the combination of the two is delightful, almost regardless of the actual story. I'm glad, though, that this story is set in the same world as Caraval--in fact, ...
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I found the first 1/4 to 1/3 of this book to be slow, probably because our main characters were happy and mostly conflict-free. Ransom and Claire were married, and in love with each other. Claire fell pregnant, though her pregnancy is a difficult one. There's some far-off political intrigue that ...
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Very interesting concepts. Drosnin did not discover the Bible Codes he describes here; he's a reporter (and an atheist one at that) who stumbled upon the discovery via a computer program discovered by a Jewish rabbi. He then cross-referenced it with numerous mathematicians who could not disprove it. ...
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This story is an equally compelling read to the first in the series, but I still liked it slightly less for three main reasons: first, Spensa is the only character in the story really that carries over from the previous one, because she hyperjumps across space and meets a bunch of aliens. Second, ...
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A compelling WWII drama -- I've discovered I'm a big fan of books from that era. They come ready-made with all the conflict you could ever need; all you have to do is add some compelling characters and a slightly different scenario than what's been done before. In this case, the main character is ...
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This is a hard book to rate. On one hand, Stephen Hawking's humility, dry humor, and the devastating disease he overcame make him incredibly endearing and admirable. On the other hand, I don't think all of the questions he answered in this volume pertain to his area of expertise. Apparently there ...
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