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Rating: 3.5 StarsDish Type: Slow-simmered sea stew â atmospheric, rich, but not for fast feasting. If you cracked open The Scorpio Races expecting a full-throttle horse race soaked in blood and adrenaline, temper your hungerâthis dish is more tide and tension than speed and spectacle. Maggie Stiefvater serves up a windswept tale steeped in myth,
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Thereâs something sacred about slow weekendsâthe kind where the coffee stays warm, the pages keep turning, and the real world feels just a bit farther away. This weekend, I leaned into comfort and curiosity, mixing spicy romance with windswept fantasy and letting my reading mood take the lead. Hereâs whatâs been keeping me company: đ
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Letâs be honest: reading about people getting âgleanedâ in a disturbingly organized dystopia doesnât exactly pair well with, say, spaghetti and meatballs. (Too much red. You get it.) But just because Scythe is morally heavy doesnât mean your snack game has to be. If anything, the world of the Thunderhead deserves a carefully curated menuâsomething
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What if death wasnât inevitable, but regulated? In Scythe, Neal Shusterman dishes up a dystopian future where humanity has cured disease, ended war, and even conquered aging. Death is no longer naturalâitâs scheduled. Enter the Scythes: cloaked in robes, wielding deadly weapons, and burdened with the responsibility of population control. Citra and Rowan, two teens
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When Alice fell through the rabbit hole, she discovered a world filled with mystery and quite a bit of nonsense. She battled jabberwockies, talked with animals, and met a queen. But what happened when she came back? Ever Alice picks up where Lewis Carroll left off. Alice has talked about Wonderland non-stop since her return
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Ever read one of those books that works its way into your heart and then rips it out? All The Bright Places is one of those books that leaves a mark. It affects your life in a way that some books are incapable of. Jennifer Niven weaves a tale of young love and loss. Violet
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