What did you read this year?
Nikita’s
average rating for
2023
3.9
3.9
This is Talia in top form. Deft writing, so easily slips in OCD/neurodivergent/intrusive thoughts/anxiety representation, my younger self felt a little healed from reading it. That aside, the story is so cosy, so beautiful, I scarfed it down. The voices of the two characters are SO well written, distinct and enjoyable, I found myself highlighting every other line!
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Beautiful, lyrical book. Exalts sisterhood as the highest form of love (as it should). Expands what sisterhood could mean, beyond binaries and gender exclusions to mean a choosing of heart companions. Tells a delightful circular tale that features wonders such as a Museum of Collective Memory encoded in song, islands you can talk to, a vortex that reveals deep universal truths but only to children, a universe shaped like a whale whose song you ca
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