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I had a fantastic reading experience. This book had very real feeling characters to me. I love them.

To be honest, the experience of reading this wasn't my favorite, but it's very much one of those books that for me afterwards I'm like, "Wow, that was great."

And it provided so much comfort. It provided a way to turn these issues and these frustrations and this grief around in a certain way. And I just love it.

I thought the world was fantastic. I thought Jordy writing was wonderful and the oh man, the messages, man. The themes, the exploration.

I laughed out loud. This is exactly my dumb sense of humor. I love this to bits and pieces.

The main thing in here that I was just so enamored with and so interested in and that he just executes so well is the evolution of language with you. Like your personal evolution of language because you know obviously you aren't speaking the same way when you're a three-year-old toddler or a 10-year-old kid or a teenager or on the cusp of adulthood.

It's my first Raymond Chandler, and I had a blast. I legitimately had a blast. such a pleasure to read.

And so, it takes so long to get there. And a lot of it is about that time dilation. Very much about the soldiers experience coming back to Earth and seeing how Earth has changed after their time away in combat.

Actually quite unsettling and actually brilliant as well. I like the film. I love the book.

I wanted it to be like a history textbook of Tolken's world of the Lord of the Rings before the events of, you know, the Lord of the Rings books. And it was. And it was fantastic.

And overall really great book, super uncomfy book and I think Magda Shabo is such a great talent and this one has to be here as well.

This book just kept me on my toes. It kept me thinking. I really appreciated like learning so much and it's just deeply amusing and entertaining and so funny and very fairy tale like a lot of this is so fairy tale like Hans has so many moments where he's exploring outside the sanatorium or he's having conversations with people that turn quite mythological.

This book is just beautiful. Again, so funny. again.