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Does any part of you still look at the sky and hurt?

Opal by Maggie Stiefvater

Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater

Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater

Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater

December 19, 2022 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“She didn’t want this, she thought. She wanted to stop being afraid.. and she wanted a future that didn’t look exactly like her past. There had to be something they could do. This wasn’t living, it was just giving up while still breathing.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk “Farooq-Lane’s fist smarted as if it had just been smashed against a douchebag’s face, because it had just been smashed against a douchebag’s face.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk Spoilers for The Raven […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: angst, brothers, Fathers and sons, fish out of water, gay romance, identical twins, lesbian romance, LGBTQ, Maggie Stiefvater, magical realism, Mothers and daughters

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:47 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: angst, brothers, Fathers and sons, fish out of water, gay romance, identical twins, lesbian romance, LGBTQ, Maggie Stiefvater, magical realism, Mothers and daughters ·
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A Who-Done-It Modeled on Greek Tragedy

Identical by Scott Turow

July 20, 2014 by Valyruh Leave a Comment

I was expecting another courtroom drama, which Turow is famous for, but instead got a complicated who-dun-it which meshed power struggles and politics with family feuds and Greek mythol0gy. As Turow himself admits in his concluding notes, inspiration for the story came from the Gemini myth of Castor and Pollux, twins who shared in each other’s fates and spent half their time in Hades and half on Mount Olympus with the Greek Gods. Knowing that myth before reading the book gives added dimensions to Turow’s […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: dna, Greek tragedy, identical twins, murder, mythology, politics

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:50 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: dna, Greek tragedy, identical twins, murder, mythology, politics ·
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