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rivers_bend at 09:37am on 01/04/2016 under readingHello! I'm back again with my March books. I read too many books in March. Like, in detriment to the actual running of my day-to-day life. I'm going to try to dial it back a little bit this month. There are some books coming out I'm really excited about, like the latest KJ Charles and a new Santino Hassell and the final Raven Cycle book, but I'm going to try not to do any reading three books in a single day days in April. The sun has FINALLY come out, so I think this might even be a reachable goal.
On to the books! I tried not to be spoilery, though I do go into some content warnings for some of them. I'm always happy to go into more detail if you want. this got hella long, so I'll put the books under a cut <3
Rag and Bone by KJ Charles
A novella length sequel to the short A Queer Trade which I talked about last month. We get more of Ned and Crispin, and magical London, and our favorite magicians from the magpie books. Genuinely creepy in parts and genuinely scary in others, though (for me at least) it never tipped from that titillating frisson of the good kind of scary to impending nightmare territory. Which is just my style. I love that Ned and Crispin don't always understand each other, as they come from different backgrounds and have different pressures on their lives, but they like each other, and they matter to each other, and they work. If you're like me and half my twitter feed, you'll read this and then have to go back and re-read the magpie books at once.
The Foxhole Court, The Raven King, and The King's Men by Nora Sakavic
I put these together because the series is not one that works as standalones, and I have no idea how to talk about them separately. The whole of the first book, in fact, I was pretty much wondering wth was going on, and didn't connect with any of the characters. But whoooo-eeee did I care about them by the end (and by not much into the second book tbh). As someone who does not care AT ALL about any sports, the made-up sport in this series was a bit confusing at first, but I think it's kind of lacrosse meets hockey meets raquetball, and the full run of Friday Night Lights gave me enough background into team dynamics ;) The love story is a S L O W burn, but I liked that. And there were multiple queer characters, and they came to and related to their queerness in a variety of ways. I liked that too.
It's important you don't go into these looking for realism. The made-up sport is important because it allows for a made-up universe of college sports leagues that don't function with REMOTELY the same rules as ours. we're not quite in hogwarts territory here, but we're not far off. warnings for violence (including sexual), drugs, and abuse. i'm happy to give people more specific trigger/content warnings. There's a fandom for these books on tumblr, and some fic, but I didn't find a lot of fic that spoke to me. I did want to write fic after reading these, though, which I haven't felt in a while. (sadly, nothing more came of that desire, but the desire was nice!) These were given to me by a friend, and I'm super glad she did. Writing is something I'm struggling with at the moment, but I like having something I could feel like writing fannishly about again.
Cost of Repairs by AM Arthur
I got this in the Samhain sale, and discovered it was part 1 of a 5-part series. I'm super not good at just reading part of a series, so you will all be shocked, I'm sure, to see the next four books on this list are parts 2-5. I enjoyed Sam and Rey, and got to the end and was like, but I need more of THEIR story, not someone else's, but the series does go back to them, and everyone takes part in everyone else's story in one way or another once you get going. It's a little bit lol that they make a big deal of noticing that they are pretty much the only queer people in this small town, and then there are actually five books worth of queer characters, and all connected to one diner in various ways, but that's also one of the really nice things about the series. The town almost becomes another character. And there is a lot of found family going on. warnings for homophobic violence (extreme, some of it pre-story), and an incident of m/f stalking.
Color of Grace by AM Arthur
This was very satisfying in a getting to see behind characters we'd been briefly introduced to in the first book kind of way. Also just in a good book way. The whole series is a little drama-llama in nature--I'm pretty sure that at least one person ends up in the ER for some reason or another in every book--and the author definitely relishes a fraught back story, but the sex is hot, and at least all the crazy stuff isn't happening to one person ;)
Weight of Silence by AM Arthur
This was my least favorite of the books in this series. It had some annoying stereotypes of racial and mental health varieties, which it tried to mitigate by acknowledging that they were stereotypes but they just happened to be the case in this story? but we live in a world where representation matters, so. I liked the central characters, and the bits of background that we got to the gang, but meh.
Acts of Faith by AM Arthur
Here we have the eagerly awaited kidfic sequel to Ben and Rey's accidental dating fic. or, I mean, the second book in which the focus is on Sam and Rey. More drama, more trips to the ER, and some misunderstandings along the way. A little bit of a trope fest, but still very enjoyable.
Foundation of Trust by AM Arthur
I liked the story of this, but it took a little bit to get over how one of the characters had struck me as a little whiny in the previous books, and then he was pretty much a dick early on, and it took me some time to get past that too. I did, though, and I really liked the teenage kid in this story too. And the end tied up the loose ends left from the other books, too.
Crossing Borders by ZA Maxfield
I had mixed feelings about this one. I liked the characters, and it was well plotted, paced, and written. The cop/~wild kid trope was pretty non-existent, given the kid was actually a family-focused good college student who happened to like going to the skate park sometimes. Also the age difference was pretty small. but the older character thought about the younger one occasionally in ways that disturbed me a bit, and there were sometimes I wanted them to just fucking TALK. There's apparently a sequel, but I didn't bother.
I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
I loved this book SO SO SO MUCH. what an incredibly beautiful book. i finished it with my heart soaring and tears running down my face. the language is exquisite, and it filled me with the rush of loving language and the ways it can be used. it has such a unique story-telling structure, or at least one that felt incredibly fresh and new, but I also felt at home in it. the characters broke my heart over and over, and filled me up with light. And what an incredibly masterful use of dual POV. I'm agog, and expect I will be for quite some time. I got this book out of the library, but I'm definitely going to have to buy it, because I expect to read it over and over again. I for sure need to read it at least once more, because it's one of those books that is going to be COMPLETELY different reading it knowing everything you learn by the end. And I'll have to read it again after that, because it will be different yet again reading it knowing what it was like to read it knowing all the things. Plus, I just want to spend more time with Noah and Jude and all the people in their story.
The Closer You Get by LA Witt
This is a sequel to a m/m/m book which I didn't read, because I didn't fancy the dynamic of it, but I don't think that put me at a disadvantage particularly. I liked the characters, and the love story was sweet. I could NOT stop laughing that the hip, young, wild-child bartender character who kept CLIPPING HIS CELL PHONE TO HIS BELT. though I have been assured by people who've lived in Seattle longer than me that this is not only something that everyone was doing several years ago when this was written, they are still doing it today? MEN HAVE POCKETS. WHY. W H Y. idk. other than that, this was pretty good lol.
Come Unto These Yellow Sands by Josh Lanyon
This felt a little like a re-hash of one of the Adrien English books, plot wise, but I do love me some established relationship, and I really liked the relationship dynamics. Also, I always like a good mystery.
Pressure Head by JL Merrow
I accidentally bought the third one of these in the Samhain sale, but was delighted to find when I got the sample of this first one that I liked the writing style, so it wasn't going to be a wasted purchase. These remind me a little of the Tyack and Frayne books, in very good ways. Very definitely british, small town-y, and one of the characters has a little bit of ESP going on. The family and friendship relationships are every bit as compelling as the central romance, and there's even queer ladies! A+ would read again.
Relief Valve by JL Merrow
Tom's cats and his family play a bigger part in this second book in the series, which is much to the good. I loved getting to know his sister--who now I think on it is a pretty good parallel to Frayne's brother in many ways--and finding out more about his history.
Heat Trap by JL Merrow
afaik this is the final book in the series--it certainly ties up the story arcs started in the earlier books--but I'd love to have more of these characters. This time we get a lot more about Tom's friends, and of the queer ladies at Devil's Dyke. warnings for talk (and consequences) of abusive/manipulative relationships.
With or Without Him by Barbara Elsborg
this is a competently done sugar-daddy/student who pays his way through school as a sex worker story, if that's your thing. It's violent, with both sexual and street violence as well as attempted murder, has a couple VERY not safe or consensual bdsm scenes (though it is acknowledged as just actual violence and that bdsm is very different than that, and the scenes are not with the sugar daddy), and I sometimes got frustrated that the two main characters didn't just fucking TALK. though it helped that a character in their lives ALSO felt this frustration, and sometimes pushed. I'm not really sure how I ended up with this, as it's definitely not my trope of choice, but once I started, I wanted to find out what would happen. this didn't happen to hit my triggers, but if you've got triggers of your own but still want to give this a try, I'm happy to give you a more detailed heads up.
Somebody Killed his Editor by Josh Lanyon
this was gratingly rife with that particular gay-boy brand of misogyny that is probably supposed to play as lighthearted ribbing and just gets right on my tits. I find this not uncommon with Lanyon's older writing, though it was glaringly obvious here, as many of the background characters were women. Irksomely, i also was desperate to find out what would happen next in the romance. And I like a whodunit. If I hadn't already bought the second book, I might have been annoyed enough not to carry on, but I had, so I did.
All She Wrote by Josh Lanyon
this second of the Holmes and Moriarity books was better on the dismissive sexism front, a bit. Again a good whodunit, and I still want to see where the romance is going. but omg, if you know anything at all about medicine, broken bones, or dislocated shoulders, the second half of a book is a CHORE to ignore that Holmes is doing things like wrapping both arms around his lover's neck, or lying on his side and hugging him, or having vigorous riding sex a couple days after a compound fracture of his collar bone and a dislocated shoulder. Sir, where is your sling?
The Boy with the Painful Tattoo by Josh Lanyon
The final book in the series, and it's set in San Francisco, which always tugs at my heart. We finally get resolution to the romance, yay! but mostly we have a house that I so desperately want I can hardly breathe with my envy.
The Carpenter's Apprentice by Van Barrett
I... have never understood why people read badfic, but I finished this book, by choice, so I think I sort of get it now. The characters "shriek", "scream", and "growl" their porno dialogue during sex scenes, come and coming are spelled the u way throughout, the euphemisms are excruciating, and given the inexperience of the characters, the first-time sex they have is--being generous--unlikely in the extreme. I am grateful this was a kindle unlimited choice, and I didn't spend money on it. I am, however, agog at its 4* rating.
Devoted by Sierra Riley
first, I have to say, ACTUAL BISEXUAL CHARACTER. One who says, "I've always been bi." and doesn't let people tell him he's gay now. second, PRETEND MARRIED. and also best friends to lovers. It's very much a trope fest, but in that way where sometimes you really need a tropefest, and it doesn't disappoint. I wish I knew a little less about the health insurance industry and certain medical things, but *shrug* i don't read pretend married fic for cutting realism.
Refraction by Hayden Scott
this was SO ADORABLE. only a 45 minute read--50ish pages--and it was the price I often pay for a four-hour read, but this was so funny and sweet and great, that was fine. a queer, superhero take on racial politics YA book that made me cheer and grin.
Lines of Sight by Wolf Specter and Clara Coyle
another book in the actual bisexual characters file. yay! This was very much not a romance, though there was a romance in it. Instead, it was a paranormal crime novel that had queer characters. i liked that about it. There were some places where it was a little bit weird, but in that way were, like fanfic often doesn't, it didn't quite play by the ~rules? idk. I can't quite explain it. But it was very well plotted, and had good pacing, and interesting, compelling characters. There were a few more than acceptable niggling typos, but that is something that is a HUGE bugbear of mine, so it might not even bother lots of people. It looks like there is or is going to soon be a sequel, and I definitely plan on reading it.
Guardian by Sierra Riley
cute kidfic book. there were several ~guns that showed up and never got fired, so I was kind of ... for a lot of it waiting for things to happen, but dudes who make each other happy make each other happy, and that's what I really need out of a romance at the end of the day. one of those glad it was on kindle unlimited books tho.
Out of the Blues by Mercy Celeste
this was a case of premise i liked, but lorde this author's kinks are not my kinks. she's into banter about coercion and i'm really not. I had to bail on another book of hers, because there was too much literal "i know you want it", but this one had just enough "yeah i do want it" to keep me there. so then of course, there's actual talk of past child sexual abuse towards the end. if that kind of stuff isn't triggery for you, it's got strangers bed sharing trope, GFY (ish? sexuality is a spectrum), and the word bisexual is actually used.
Think of England by KJ Charles
a lot of time when I re-read books it's to spend more time with characters I love, but this is one that I am also wanting to spend more time with sentences I love. This book has several, and when I come upon them, it's like seeing a good friend's face in a crowd, and you think, aaahh, there she is.
the first three Magpie books, starting with The Magpie Lord, and the short A Case of Spirits by KJ Charles
I was going to resist after reading Rag and Bone, but I could not.
Out of Nowhere and In the Middle of Somewhere by Roan Parrish
this time I read them in reverse order, the second one first and the first second, half because I was feeling more like spending a little time with Colin and Raef, and half because I was curious to see how Daniel reads when you've just read Colin's side of the story. My conclusion was basically a;lsdkjflds I just really love both of these books, and I can't wait for the third one.
On to the books! I tried not to be spoilery, though I do go into some content warnings for some of them. I'm always happy to go into more detail if you want. this got hella long, so I'll put the books under a cut <3
Rag and Bone by KJ Charles
A novella length sequel to the short A Queer Trade which I talked about last month. We get more of Ned and Crispin, and magical London, and our favorite magicians from the magpie books. Genuinely creepy in parts and genuinely scary in others, though (for me at least) it never tipped from that titillating frisson of the good kind of scary to impending nightmare territory. Which is just my style. I love that Ned and Crispin don't always understand each other, as they come from different backgrounds and have different pressures on their lives, but they like each other, and they matter to each other, and they work. If you're like me and half my twitter feed, you'll read this and then have to go back and re-read the magpie books at once.
The Foxhole Court, The Raven King, and The King's Men by Nora Sakavic
I put these together because the series is not one that works as standalones, and I have no idea how to talk about them separately. The whole of the first book, in fact, I was pretty much wondering wth was going on, and didn't connect with any of the characters. But whoooo-eeee did I care about them by the end (and by not much into the second book tbh). As someone who does not care AT ALL about any sports, the made-up sport in this series was a bit confusing at first, but I think it's kind of lacrosse meets hockey meets raquetball, and the full run of Friday Night Lights gave me enough background into team dynamics ;) The love story is a S L O W burn, but I liked that. And there were multiple queer characters, and they came to and related to their queerness in a variety of ways. I liked that too.
It's important you don't go into these looking for realism. The made-up sport is important because it allows for a made-up universe of college sports leagues that don't function with REMOTELY the same rules as ours. we're not quite in hogwarts territory here, but we're not far off. warnings for violence (including sexual), drugs, and abuse. i'm happy to give people more specific trigger/content warnings. There's a fandom for these books on tumblr, and some fic, but I didn't find a lot of fic that spoke to me. I did want to write fic after reading these, though, which I haven't felt in a while. (sadly, nothing more came of that desire, but the desire was nice!) These were given to me by a friend, and I'm super glad she did. Writing is something I'm struggling with at the moment, but I like having something I could feel like writing fannishly about again.
Cost of Repairs by AM Arthur
I got this in the Samhain sale, and discovered it was part 1 of a 5-part series. I'm super not good at just reading part of a series, so you will all be shocked, I'm sure, to see the next four books on this list are parts 2-5. I enjoyed Sam and Rey, and got to the end and was like, but I need more of THEIR story, not someone else's, but the series does go back to them, and everyone takes part in everyone else's story in one way or another once you get going. It's a little bit lol that they make a big deal of noticing that they are pretty much the only queer people in this small town, and then there are actually five books worth of queer characters, and all connected to one diner in various ways, but that's also one of the really nice things about the series. The town almost becomes another character. And there is a lot of found family going on. warnings for homophobic violence (extreme, some of it pre-story), and an incident of m/f stalking.
Color of Grace by AM Arthur
This was very satisfying in a getting to see behind characters we'd been briefly introduced to in the first book kind of way. Also just in a good book way. The whole series is a little drama-llama in nature--I'm pretty sure that at least one person ends up in the ER for some reason or another in every book--and the author definitely relishes a fraught back story, but the sex is hot, and at least all the crazy stuff isn't happening to one person ;)
Weight of Silence by AM Arthur
This was my least favorite of the books in this series. It had some annoying stereotypes of racial and mental health varieties, which it tried to mitigate by acknowledging that they were stereotypes but they just happened to be the case in this story? but we live in a world where representation matters, so. I liked the central characters, and the bits of background that we got to the gang, but meh.
Acts of Faith by AM Arthur
Here we have the eagerly awaited kidfic sequel to Ben and Rey's accidental dating fic. or, I mean, the second book in which the focus is on Sam and Rey. More drama, more trips to the ER, and some misunderstandings along the way. A little bit of a trope fest, but still very enjoyable.
Foundation of Trust by AM Arthur
I liked the story of this, but it took a little bit to get over how one of the characters had struck me as a little whiny in the previous books, and then he was pretty much a dick early on, and it took me some time to get past that too. I did, though, and I really liked the teenage kid in this story too. And the end tied up the loose ends left from the other books, too.
Crossing Borders by ZA Maxfield
I had mixed feelings about this one. I liked the characters, and it was well plotted, paced, and written. The cop/~wild kid trope was pretty non-existent, given the kid was actually a family-focused good college student who happened to like going to the skate park sometimes. Also the age difference was pretty small. but the older character thought about the younger one occasionally in ways that disturbed me a bit, and there were sometimes I wanted them to just fucking TALK. There's apparently a sequel, but I didn't bother.
I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
I loved this book SO SO SO MUCH. what an incredibly beautiful book. i finished it with my heart soaring and tears running down my face. the language is exquisite, and it filled me with the rush of loving language and the ways it can be used. it has such a unique story-telling structure, or at least one that felt incredibly fresh and new, but I also felt at home in it. the characters broke my heart over and over, and filled me up with light. And what an incredibly masterful use of dual POV. I'm agog, and expect I will be for quite some time. I got this book out of the library, but I'm definitely going to have to buy it, because I expect to read it over and over again. I for sure need to read it at least once more, because it's one of those books that is going to be COMPLETELY different reading it knowing everything you learn by the end. And I'll have to read it again after that, because it will be different yet again reading it knowing what it was like to read it knowing all the things. Plus, I just want to spend more time with Noah and Jude and all the people in their story.
The Closer You Get by LA Witt
This is a sequel to a m/m/m book which I didn't read, because I didn't fancy the dynamic of it, but I don't think that put me at a disadvantage particularly. I liked the characters, and the love story was sweet. I could NOT stop laughing that the hip, young, wild-child bartender character who kept CLIPPING HIS CELL PHONE TO HIS BELT. though I have been assured by people who've lived in Seattle longer than me that this is not only something that everyone was doing several years ago when this was written, they are still doing it today? MEN HAVE POCKETS. WHY. W H Y. idk. other than that, this was pretty good lol.
Come Unto These Yellow Sands by Josh Lanyon
This felt a little like a re-hash of one of the Adrien English books, plot wise, but I do love me some established relationship, and I really liked the relationship dynamics. Also, I always like a good mystery.
Pressure Head by JL Merrow
I accidentally bought the third one of these in the Samhain sale, but was delighted to find when I got the sample of this first one that I liked the writing style, so it wasn't going to be a wasted purchase. These remind me a little of the Tyack and Frayne books, in very good ways. Very definitely british, small town-y, and one of the characters has a little bit of ESP going on. The family and friendship relationships are every bit as compelling as the central romance, and there's even queer ladies! A+ would read again.
Relief Valve by JL Merrow
Tom's cats and his family play a bigger part in this second book in the series, which is much to the good. I loved getting to know his sister--who now I think on it is a pretty good parallel to Frayne's brother in many ways--and finding out more about his history.
Heat Trap by JL Merrow
afaik this is the final book in the series--it certainly ties up the story arcs started in the earlier books--but I'd love to have more of these characters. This time we get a lot more about Tom's friends, and of the queer ladies at Devil's Dyke. warnings for talk (and consequences) of abusive/manipulative relationships.
With or Without Him by Barbara Elsborg
this is a competently done sugar-daddy/student who pays his way through school as a sex worker story, if that's your thing. It's violent, with both sexual and street violence as well as attempted murder, has a couple VERY not safe or consensual bdsm scenes (though it is acknowledged as just actual violence and that bdsm is very different than that, and the scenes are not with the sugar daddy), and I sometimes got frustrated that the two main characters didn't just fucking TALK. though it helped that a character in their lives ALSO felt this frustration, and sometimes pushed. I'm not really sure how I ended up with this, as it's definitely not my trope of choice, but once I started, I wanted to find out what would happen. this didn't happen to hit my triggers, but if you've got triggers of your own but still want to give this a try, I'm happy to give you a more detailed heads up.
Somebody Killed his Editor by Josh Lanyon
this was gratingly rife with that particular gay-boy brand of misogyny that is probably supposed to play as lighthearted ribbing and just gets right on my tits. I find this not uncommon with Lanyon's older writing, though it was glaringly obvious here, as many of the background characters were women. Irksomely, i also was desperate to find out what would happen next in the romance. And I like a whodunit. If I hadn't already bought the second book, I might have been annoyed enough not to carry on, but I had, so I did.
All She Wrote by Josh Lanyon
this second of the Holmes and Moriarity books was better on the dismissive sexism front, a bit. Again a good whodunit, and I still want to see where the romance is going. but omg, if you know anything at all about medicine, broken bones, or dislocated shoulders, the second half of a book is a CHORE to ignore that Holmes is doing things like wrapping both arms around his lover's neck, or lying on his side and hugging him, or having vigorous riding sex a couple days after a compound fracture of his collar bone and a dislocated shoulder. Sir, where is your sling?
The Boy with the Painful Tattoo by Josh Lanyon
The final book in the series, and it's set in San Francisco, which always tugs at my heart. We finally get resolution to the romance, yay! but mostly we have a house that I so desperately want I can hardly breathe with my envy.
The Carpenter's Apprentice by Van Barrett
I... have never understood why people read badfic, but I finished this book, by choice, so I think I sort of get it now. The characters "shriek", "scream", and "growl" their porno dialogue during sex scenes, come and coming are spelled the u way throughout, the euphemisms are excruciating, and given the inexperience of the characters, the first-time sex they have is--being generous--unlikely in the extreme. I am grateful this was a kindle unlimited choice, and I didn't spend money on it. I am, however, agog at its 4* rating.
Devoted by Sierra Riley
first, I have to say, ACTUAL BISEXUAL CHARACTER. One who says, "I've always been bi." and doesn't let people tell him he's gay now. second, PRETEND MARRIED. and also best friends to lovers. It's very much a trope fest, but in that way where sometimes you really need a tropefest, and it doesn't disappoint. I wish I knew a little less about the health insurance industry and certain medical things, but *shrug* i don't read pretend married fic for cutting realism.
Refraction by Hayden Scott
this was SO ADORABLE. only a 45 minute read--50ish pages--and it was the price I often pay for a four-hour read, but this was so funny and sweet and great, that was fine. a queer, superhero take on racial politics YA book that made me cheer and grin.
Lines of Sight by Wolf Specter and Clara Coyle
another book in the actual bisexual characters file. yay! This was very much not a romance, though there was a romance in it. Instead, it was a paranormal crime novel that had queer characters. i liked that about it. There were some places where it was a little bit weird, but in that way were, like fanfic often doesn't, it didn't quite play by the ~rules? idk. I can't quite explain it. But it was very well plotted, and had good pacing, and interesting, compelling characters. There were a few more than acceptable niggling typos, but that is something that is a HUGE bugbear of mine, so it might not even bother lots of people. It looks like there is or is going to soon be a sequel, and I definitely plan on reading it.
Guardian by Sierra Riley
cute kidfic book. there were several ~guns that showed up and never got fired, so I was kind of ... for a lot of it waiting for things to happen, but dudes who make each other happy make each other happy, and that's what I really need out of a romance at the end of the day. one of those glad it was on kindle unlimited books tho.
Out of the Blues by Mercy Celeste
this was a case of premise i liked, but lorde this author's kinks are not my kinks. she's into banter about coercion and i'm really not. I had to bail on another book of hers, because there was too much literal "i know you want it", but this one had just enough "yeah i do want it" to keep me there. so then of course, there's actual talk of past child sexual abuse towards the end. if that kind of stuff isn't triggery for you, it's got strangers bed sharing trope, GFY (ish? sexuality is a spectrum), and the word bisexual is actually used.
Think of England by KJ Charles
a lot of time when I re-read books it's to spend more time with characters I love, but this is one that I am also wanting to spend more time with sentences I love. This book has several, and when I come upon them, it's like seeing a good friend's face in a crowd, and you think, aaahh, there she is.
the first three Magpie books, starting with The Magpie Lord, and the short A Case of Spirits by KJ Charles
I was going to resist after reading Rag and Bone, but I could not.
Out of Nowhere and In the Middle of Somewhere by Roan Parrish
this time I read them in reverse order, the second one first and the first second, half because I was feeling more like spending a little time with Colin and Raef, and half because I was curious to see how Daniel reads when you've just read Colin's side of the story. My conclusion was basically a;lsdkjflds I just really love both of these books, and I can't wait for the third one.
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