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Would you go undercover and infiltrate a futuristic mob to save your sibling? I’d have to think really hard…

False Hearts by Laura Lam

November 30, 2022 by Bothari43 3 Comments

How’s this for a synopsis: a pair of conjoined twins escape the cult they’ve been raised in, are surgically separated and given new hearts, and learn to live in near-future San Francisco, until one of them is arrested for murder and the other has to go undercover as her sister to infiltrate the mob that’s trying to mine people’s dreams and prove her innocence. Whew! It’s a fun ride. Taema and Tila lived on an island in a cult called the Hearth, run by a […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: conjoined twins, cults, Laura Lam, San Francisco, undercover

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: conjoined twins, cults, Laura Lam, San Francisco, undercover ·
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“We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

October 27, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

I was given this book as a birthday present about six years ago by my friend Lindsay and it has been languishing on my shelves ever since. Enter 2020, the Read Harder Challenge, and whatever the fuck else has been going on this year that means I’m reading more from my own shelves than anywhere else. And I’m glad I finally got around to it! This is an over 600 page literary fiction book, but it reads in the way I like my literary fiction […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Abraham Verghese, addis ababa, conjoined twins, Cutting for Stone, Ethiopia, historical fiction, lit-fic, literary fiction, medical, narfna, read harder challenge 2020, twins

narfna's CBR12 Review No:152 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Abraham Verghese, addis ababa, conjoined twins, Cutting for Stone, Ethiopia, historical fiction, lit-fic, literary fiction, medical, narfna, read harder challenge 2020, twins ·
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