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| Interesting, but more of a character study of the family than anything else. The death of Lydia is secondary to this biography of the family, which at times feels like sprawling exposition. Also, the excess of “like” and “as if” is distracting once y ...more | |
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| Kept my attention the entire time, but the prose was nothing special (not bad, not unique) and I don’t know how I feel about the climax of the story. | |
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| Enjoyed it. Prose was good. Some POVs better than others. Not sure how I felt about the end. It was very “sometimes bad things happen and there’s no satisfying end to them” but also “everything needs to be neatly tied up in a satisfying way” and I wi ...more | |
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| Kept my attention the entire time, but the prose was nothing special (not bad, not unique) and I don’t know how I feel about the climax of the story. | |
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| Lacking the complexity of character I was hoping for. A lot of the plot and characters are puddle deep. Things also go the MC’s way most of the time. I wanted to see more struggle/bigger stakes/actual consequences, plus a deeper exploration of most e ...more | |
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King of Ashes
by S.A. Cosby (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Mystery & Thriller, Readers' Favorite Audiobook |
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“Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.”
― Demon in My View
― Demon in My View
“We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”
― Imajica
― Imajica
“Nothing ever begins.
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
― Weave World
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
― Weave World
“Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.”
― Galilee
― Galilee
“That which is imagined can never be lost.”
― Weave World
― Weave World
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