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Dragons, Art and Noodles

A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim

October 5, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

First off, yes, this does share the same universe as the Six Crimson Cranes duology but you don’t need to have read that to follow this one. In fact you might be better off because you won’t be trying to remember if you have briefly met a character before. Tru’s father was lost at sea five years ago, and her father’s absence combined with her mother’s gambling habit quickly thrust the family into poverty. Tru and her two sisters do what they can to help […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: beauty and the beast, Elizabeth Lim, shared universe

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:93 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: beauty and the beast, Elizabeth Lim, shared universe ·
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“I’m no expert, but I remember reading somewhere, every time you retrieve a memory, that act of retrieval, it corrupts the memory a little bit. Maybe changes it a little.”

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

April 21, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 6 Comments

This book is highly readable. While it may appear that I am damning with faint praise, that is not my intention. This book is readable because, despite being filled with topics and characters that do not automatically appeal to me, I was interested and invested from page one. Had this book not been written by Emily St. John Mandel I probably would have glanced at the dust jacket and gone on my merry way, but since it was written by her I knew that I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 2008 recession, Emily St. John Mandel, finance, fraud, Greek tragedy, grief, guilt, isolation, memory, shared universe, Station Eleven, wealth

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 2008 recession, Emily St. John Mandel, finance, fraud, Greek tragedy, grief, guilt, isolation, memory, shared universe, Station Eleven, wealth ·
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