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lostforwords

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Trying to read books in spite of brainfog. Thoughts and recall may be muddled.

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reviewed The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu (Edinburgh Nights, #1)

T. L. Huchu: The Library of the Dead (Paperback, 2022, Tor Books, Tor Trade)

Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker – and they sure do love …

The start of an epic series

I recommend this book to friends all the time. The main character, Ropa, is as plucky as they come, with a great sense of humor. Her adventures in the dystopian future of a magical Edinburgh are both harrowing and humorous. This book contains so many characters I would love to meet, places I would love to see, and horrors that belong firmly in the realm of fiction - things only a band of teenagers would be silly enough to take on (I say that with love.) This book isn't as good as the next in the series, which I think is the best, but it's an amazing adventure, a world highly worth getting lost in, and the beginning of what has become one of my favorite series.

T. Kingfisher: Nettle & Bone (Hardcover, 2022, Tor Publishing Group)

Marra — a shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter — is relieved not to be married off …

An empowering fairy tale

This book is one of my comfort reads, the audiobook read by Amara Jasper is excellent. The book itself is full of characters that are well developed and likeable, with the evil prince being a character who is the embodiment of toxic masculinity - most people, I think, have run across someone like this. It does include some really dark subjects, so why do I say it's a comfort read? Because even though it's a fairy tale, even though these subjects are dark, they are real things that happen to real people, and yet, as is so often the case with well written characters, because they care for their goal, which is love for another person, they face these things. There is also no sugar coating, no toxic positivity. In that, there is a sense that we, too - we real people - can do the same, when facing terrible …