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Addie LaRue is a young woman in 1700s rural France who makes a deal with a god of darkness, which promises her freedom and being tied to no one — but cursed with the fact that everyone she meets will forget her.
This is a novel where you can practically taste summer on its pages.
Adrienne Celt’s book, Invitation to a Bonfire, pieces together diary pages from a fictional young woman named Zoya, and love letters from a fictional Russian writer named Leo "Lev" Orlov (based on Vladimir Nabokov). In doing so, she builds up sexual and violent tension to a point where I hit the end of the novel and thought, HOLY SHIT.
At a dinner party one night, Ariel Levy is asked "Are you the Ariel who all the bad things happened to?"
Ok. So. I stayed up all night to read The Royal We, a romance novel loosely based on the lives of Prince William and Kate.
But Batuman decides to set her rather millennial novel in the mid-90s. Before the internet, before cell phones, and certainly, before the advent of millennial pink.
To the End of the Land takes you into the depths of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of one mourning mother and does not let you escape
The book is an intertwining mystery of different narratives that keeps you reading til its (depressing, I'll admit) end.
