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This is the kind of book you pick up when you are really hungry for story, not when you just need a snack. Epic fantasy for those who love the length and world-building and are tired of Tolkien-inspired worlds and stories and characters. Nothing here is familiar and all of it is fascinating. Get it!

This book made me an instant Jemisin fan - I seriously love this book. Powerful story, fascinating characters you love (or hate, or can't figure out how to feel about - just like people!), an intriguing world and ideas that make you thing. It was nominated for all the major fantasy fiction awards, and deserved it. The rest of the trilogy is just as great.

I can't believe more people haven't read this book - it is wonderful! It is a perfect blend of Jane Austen homage and creative use of magic in fiction. If you are a fan of romance, fantasy, historical fiction or just a good romp, this book is perfect. There are four books in this series now, and they just get better.

10 pages in and I was already blown away. His writing reminds me of William Gibson, somehow - impressively unique and spot-on descriptions of familiar places and objects. I'm thinking I'll need to read everything he's written...

This book is more of Joanne Harris at her best. It was wonderful to revisit Vianne and Anouk five years after Chocolat, complete with magic and the truths we all ignore. Harris never disappoints!

This book was fantastic. I love that it has pictures, drawings, scribbling in the margins, and various other things that a real journal would have. It's the 'journal' of a young boy with an obsession for maps, using them to try and make sense of the world around him. The writing is top-notch and the story never slows. Read it, you won't be sorry

Michael Perry is a perfect blend of manly-man and vulnerable artist. Perry writes beautifully and powerfully about life - his life in particular. Marriage, becoming a father, building a chicken coop, the death of friends and family, the need to be smarter than your pigs, religious ambiquity - no subject is out-of-bounds and everything comes back to how crazy, precious and fantastic every day is. Everyone can find something to love in this book.

This book does a great job of describing, examining and critiquing the media images aimed at women over the last 60 years. She shares both a critical perspective and a personal viewpoint on why they were important and how they affected - not just her - but generations of women. Equally at home in your personal or classroom library.