Others: Mixed Follows the orbits of old acquaintances headed for a less than harmonic convergence in Northern California in 1984.
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Lietha Wards
2012 · 1 review
Others: PositiveKate Purnell was born of sophistication, but when she traveled to the wilds of Northern California after the death of her father to live with her cousins, she didn't expect to fall in love with a hardened cowboy like Everett King.
Susanna Clarke
2001 · 1006 pages · 14 reviews
Others: Mostly positivePublished in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its premise is that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centred on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of "Englishness" and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dane, and Northern and Southern English cultural tropes/stereotypes. It has been described as a fantasy novel, an alternative history, and a historical novel. It inverts the Industrial Revolution conception of the North-South divide in England: in this book the North is romantic and magical, rather than rational and concrete.
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Jeff VanderMeer
2014 · 341 pages · 1 review
Others: NegativeFrom the publisher--- It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril. Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X--what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X--and who may have been corrupted by it? In this New York Times bestselling final installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound--or terrifying.
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Eliza Jane Brazier
2021 · 320 pages · 5 reviews
Others: Leaning negativeWhen her favorite true crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession. Sera loves true crime podcasts. They make her feel empowered in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She's sure they are preparing her for something. So when Rachel, her favorite podcast host, goes missing, Sera knows it's time to act. Rachel has always taught her to trust her instincts. Sera follows the clues hidden in the episodes to an isolated ranch outside Rachel's small hometown to begin her search. She's convinced her investigation will make Rachel so proud. But the more Sera digs into this unfamiliar world, the more off things start to feel. Because Rachel is not the first woman to vanish from the ranch, and she won't be the last... Rachel did try to warn her.
Holly Black
2002 · 320 pages · 2 reviews
Others: MixedYoung adult fantasy novel about a young girl who discovers she's not human, but a faerie. Trouble follows.
Gabby Rivera
2016 · 320 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveJuliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan, sort of, one that's going to help her figure out this whole "Puerto Rican lesbian" thing.
MixedI actually think it is a very depressing novel and very bitter sure there are lots of hilarious passages especially in the beginning but in general it is a reflection on the way the 60s as a cultural revolution failed the way popular culture corrupted the 60s.
