Loved itI read the first one physically... I'm just keeping the first one as like a yes, this series stamp of approval.
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Too Like the Lightning (2016)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive "The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech... And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life..."--Book jacket.
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- 9781786699503
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- 432 pages
Genres: science fiction
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Loved itThis story was very complex and wholly original. We have a completely new, almost unrecognizable society with a very interesting penal system.
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Loved itNothing has hit quite like the first book to like the lightning woo. Like if you read fantasy and science fiction to see new worlds to see new ways of being to see new government systems you must try this okay you must.
Mixedit is the start of a series and it's one that I liked when I read it but I didn't feel like I fully understood the larger picture that the author was going for and my early assessment was that I felt I would better understand the world once I continued on and read the rest of the series
Loved itI really enjoyed two like the lightning book one
Loved itthis book and the entire series I just find really memorable really noteworthy because the world-building the concept and the premise of the story is just fantastic weird and incredibly unique in the science fiction genre
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