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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.
2. 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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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...