What did you read this year?
James’s
average rating for
2024
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
It’s a rare thing, for a book to live up to its reputation. The first few chapters of this are filled with such excellent world building and juvenile joy and wonder that I began to forget the story I knew the book would end up telling was coming; save for the few ominous indications. Then the real story begins and it is compelling and heartbreaking. Everyone knows of racism and everyone knows its evil but it is rare that one imagines the observat
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