Not a fanthis one i'm going to put in yikes but i feel like it's kind of on the higher end of yikes if you will because like i didn't hate it was just really weird and strange
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Hiddensee (2017)
Others: Negative Presents an imaginative tale rooted in early nineteenth-century German Romanticism that explores parallels between the origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves him.
- ISBN:
- 9780062684387
- Length:
- 394 pages
Genres: fantasy, literary fiction
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