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“Doomed from the start, all of us”. The end is in the beginning, in this case, right on the front cover. I can't think of a better way to sum up this beautiful short story. Of course it's doomed, it is the story of Antigone, made into a dystopian world. If I were to highlight every phrase I loved in this story, it would essentially be the entire thing. Beautiful, well written, and terrible sad. Doomed from the start.

One of the saddest books over read in a while, with the most bittersweet ending, something Barry Eisler excels at. I loved it so much, and am grateful I have the next one to start right away. 

I love this book. I love how it tells the story through interviews, articles, different characters' POVs, legal journals, and more. It's incredible.

Very informative book, it really helped me understand the damage living masked does. 

Great story telling. It's not often that thrillers, especially military thrillers, are so blatantly honest about the atrocities the US military and government commit around the world but this book took an up close and personal look at it and never once tried to hand wave it away. I enjoyed Dox's personal growth as well. It is an incredible book, and the sources at the end are a special treat that I never expected to see in a fiction military thriller.

This was one hell of a tense book. Cammie is terrifyingly real. You find yourself pulled along for the Rollercoaster of a plot with the main characters and the end leaves a bit of a bitter taste. It's a great, well written, and well told story. Just be careful going in, you wind up feeling a bad afterburn from all the gaslighting

I really enjoyed this book. It was a quick read and the pace of it didn't slow down for a moment. What really got me was the way the author built the world of the Kaiju. It was amazing. 

Beautiful book. Yes, there is plenty of horror and terror and plenty of spine chilling moments, especially when Audra learns her children are missing. But, every mothering bone in my body felt Audra's journey and her worry and her determination. I loved it.

Amazing book! I love the legal tactics, the chess tactics, the writing, the character building, the story, the concept, all of it. There's not a bad moment in the book.

  There are a few dozen quotes in the book that will continue to ring in my head forever. Calling substantive due process an “Avenging Chupacabra” might be one of my favorite phrases of all time. The book's main purpose is to explain the legal jargon conservatives dress their opinions up in, and to explain the faulty logic in those legal opinions that have recently stripped away the rights of so many. I love it. 

I loved it! As someone who loves data and loves learning about everything under the sun, Freakanomics is exactly my kind of book. Reminiscent of Adam Ruins Everything, it takes a variety of topics and breaks them down into bite sized bits of data and information, explaining how they collected it and what the data says. The bonus material at the end made me extraordinarily happy as well. I would recommend this book for anyone who listens to Adam Conover, readers of Cory Doctorow, and readers of Charles Soule. 

This is the first book by Seanan McGuire that I've read and I am glad it was. It's an incredible story and so sad and so uplifting at the same time. I loved the characters. Each of them felt like living, breathing people. It was amazing. 

I have never read anything by Cory Doctorow that I have been disappointed with and this book is no exception. It's beautiful. It's heart warming. It's terrifying. I love it.

Once again, Christina Dalcher has written a book with characters who are questionable, deeply flawed, but still manage to be better than the people running around the dystopian world she's built. It was well written, gripping, and very intense. I can't say I loved it unconditionally, but I couldn't put it down because the story was so compelling. I devoured the book in 3 hours. 

This was a great book. I love how the author takes a simple fairy tale and turns it into a powerful story, with betrayal and deception and good and evil and show how a person treated as a monster from the day they're born can succumb to being exactly what everyone calls them. It's a beautiful story

I'm glad the book had a relatively happy ending but the story was heart wrenching. The history lessons inside the book are ones that I wish I had learned in school. We learn a lot about Germany during world War 2, but don't learn enough about where they got their ideas on eugenics from. This book is both a terrible dystopia and a good start to learning the history we don't learn in school. I enjoyed it, even the parts that I hated. 

I love the way the author created this story. Telling the story of an alternate, dystopia world through the autobiography of one of the people in this new world, complete with footnotes, was fascinating. I love the story and the characters, while deeply flawed and somewhat disturbing and creepy-fying, are well written and intriguing. It's a beautiful science fiction story that makes you question a lot. 

I tore through this book faster than I tear through most. The author's writing still pulled me into the world of Eve Dallas quickly and easily. This book wasn't as emotional as some of her others, but it did a lot to further the lives of the characters, especially those side characters that have become Dallas' family. I loved the book. And I guess now I'll always feel a little sorry for Dickhead.

I love all of Naomi Novik's work and this was no exception. The story was beautiful, with string workd building and an excellent magic system. 

I loved it! I love seeing the characters I grew up with being adults and taking care of a younger generation and I love seeing the new generation coming into the world I loved so much. The story was fun, and the writing was very old school buffy-esque, with the wit and half made up words that every Buffy fan has built into their style of speech. I loved all the little nods to the old series' as well. It was perfect.

Beautiful prose and a heartbreaking story. I loved it. I love how each song has its own voice and own way of coaxing each person. Some are legitimate. Some are legitimate ones whose purpose goes awry. Some are evil to the core. It's well written and shows how everyone reacts differently to drugs, both legitimate and illegal.

Great Love Story

I'm always a suckered suckered a sappy love story and the fake relationship at the start of it makes this story funny and thrilling and exciting.

Lovely, soft, mushy, adorable, sappy. This book is the perfect lighthearted queer romance. I loved every bit of it

Lovely queer characters, which is still something I always marvel at in a book. I loved it

“Not all men, fine, but enough of them. Enough to drown out the few good ones. More than enough to ruin the whole darn world.”

I've always loved arthurian tales, but I've never read one from Elaine's POV. It was an amazing book, and I loved it.