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4.3 stars
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EMOTIONAL DRAMA IN AN ENGLISH SETTING. STYLISTICALLY COMPLEX AND REFLECTIVE
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In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.
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3.7 stars
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INTRICATELY PLOTTED PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, BECAUSE YOU LIKE "I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS"
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An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.
3. Blackout
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Oxford time travel novels volume 4.
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4.8 stars
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BECAUSE YOU LIKE 11/22/63. FAST-PACED TIME TRAVEL NARRATIVE.
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When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, and Polly find themselves in World War II, facing air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history...
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4.1 stars
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A SWEEPING EPIC, UNIQUE AND MIND-BENDING.
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Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
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3.9 stars
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HAUNTING AND MELANCHOLY WITH RICH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
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"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...
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3.4 stars
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SURREAL AND MIND-BENDING, FOR FANS OF DAVID LYNCH, HORROR, AND UNIQUE NARRATIVES
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A family relocates to a small house on Ash Tree Lane and discovers that the inside of their new home seems to be without boundaries
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3.8 stars
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SAME AUTHOR AS "THE REMAINS OF THE DAY". GRADUALLY UNVEILING PLOT, ENGLISH SETTING WITH PLENTY OF SUBTEXT
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"As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it...
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3.8 stars
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BECAUSE YOU LIKE "EAST OF EDEN", DRAMATIC FAMILY SAGA
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4 stars
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DRAMATIC GOTHIC HORROR, BECAUSE YOU LIKE "MY COUSIN RACHEL".
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
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4.2 stars
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UNIQUE AND SURREAL, WEIRD FICTION
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Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in...