Loved itThis is one of those reading experiences where I was just constantly in awe. I loved the writing and a lot of those philosophical moments... it was brilliant.
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Middlegame (2019)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive "A Tom Doherty Associates book." Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He's not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn't attained.
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- 9781250195524
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- 528 pages
Genres: fantasy
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Loved itMiddlegame by Shauna Magcguire also like comes up in my mind as something that is about a connection between two people in here. They're siblings.
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Loved itMy love for Middlegame knows no bounds. Oh, do I love Middlegame.
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Loved itjust amazing villains an amazing story not only a chosen one but twins of chosen ones that have to come together and start to realize who is going to control magic who is going to control Alchemy in our really very real world
Loved iti loved this so much i read it last fall and i honestly had no idea how it was going to end or even what was gonna happen in the middle of it truly was a ride and i would highly recommend it
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Loved itit's incredibly dark but I love Shana McGuire's writing I adore the way that she crafts worlds ... I gave us four and a half stars