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Feyre Archeron, a 19-year-old huntress, is forced to leave her home in Prythian after slaying a massive wolf masquerading as a faerie. Tamlin, the High Lord of the Spring Court, offers her...
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The narrative alternates between the past and the present. The plot synopsis focuses on Gretel’s background and then her present in chronological sequence to keep...
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Emma, a travel nurse, and Justin, a software programmer, agree to date temporarily in order to uncover their true love. Emma persuades her foster sister Maddy to move their job assignment...
It Ends with Us begins by wrestling with the past, and the back and forth between present and future forms the narrative. We witness this in the introduction of Lily Bloom, who is thinking about her father,...
Chapters 1-9 Analysis
The narrative begins with the narrator longingly remembering on what she thought was her great love story, but turned out to be her worst nightmare. Daphne’s narration begins...
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When legendary singer Evelyn Hugo asks struggling junior reporter Monique Grant to undertake her first interview in decades, Monique Grant is at Vivant magazine. When Monique arrives, she...
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Kristin Hannah’s The Women follows Frances “Frankie” McGrath, a young nurse serving during the American conflict in Vietnam in the late 1960s. Frankie, a 20-year-old...
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Things We Hide from the Light (2023), a romantic story set in the fictional northern Virginia hamlet of Knockemout, is the second book in Lucy Score’s anthology series, which began with...
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Rebecca Yarros is the author of the love novel In the Likely Event. The narrative of Izzy and Nate, two young individuals on the verge of adulthood who meet just before an unplanned plane...
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Pieces of Her is a novel with two narrative strands, one lasting one week in 2018 and the other spanning slightly over a week in 1986. These threads are separated by a prologue with an...
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During the 18th century conflict with Spain, Britain dispatches a squadron of war ships led by George Anson to intercept Spanish galleons, or sailing ships, bringing wealth from South America....
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The Atlas Paradox, the second book in the Atlas trilogy, picks up where The Atlas Six left off. The latest group of six Alexandrian Society initiates—Tristan, Callum, Parisa, Nico, Libby,...
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The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah, was just published on February 2, 2020. Elsa is a mother trying to raise two kids on a Texas farm while they observe the lands drying out and as relentless...
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The story follows the University of Washington rowing squad as they compete for gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics against the backdrop of the Great Depression and Adolf Hitler’s ascent...
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Colleen Hoover made her literary debut in 2011 and has since established herself as one of the most prolific and financially successful romance novels of the new millennium. Hoover,...
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What is the benefit to me? Put a face to the Cold War and enjoy a nice adventure narrative.
The confrontation between the USSR and the West in the second half of the twentieth century...
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The American Roommate Experiment begins with Rosie Graham confronted with a succession of disasters: Her apartment ceiling collapsed owing to flooding, therefore she is living at the apartment...
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind was first released in Hebrew in 2011, with an English version following in 2014. It examines the formation of human history. Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli...
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In late November, the Kennebec River freezes, trapping a dead man. The man was rushing to depart, and his hair was twisted and laced. The town of Hallowell, Maine, will refer to...
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Ardith Law, a Hollywood star for forty years, attended the Golden Globe Awards every year to pay respects to her fellow actors and to be seen herself. At sixty-two, she was known for her variety...
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The author describes her life as a rollercoaster ride of change, with a sense of frisson and instability. She wears a black dress, white apron, and stiff leather boots to work at the living...
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