This week I’ve posted a review for one of my most anticipated books of 2021, started reading another, and read a book that might be a new favourite. I also started a new Monthly feature focusing on reading goals!
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Book Review: Middlegame
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.
Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.
Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.
Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.
Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.
Summary: Middlegame by Seanan McGuire is an enchanting story that begins and ends with incredible strength. It suffers a little from a slow middle, but the protagonists and their journey make it all worthwhile.
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