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• Haunting Author Recommendations for October

  There are some authors you come across where their prose haunt you. This is not fixed to thrillers or horrors or generally dark books, as I am sure many romance, lit fic and fantasy readers can agree. This is a power that can be found in any genre and involve any theme. The key is…

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  October 5, 2024

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• Salt to the Sea – My Introduction to Ruta Sepetys

  If you don’t know by now, Ruta Sepetys is one of my favourite historical fiction authors. Scratch that – she is my favourite historical fiction author. Not only are her books so well researched and written, but she is able to create such vivid retellings of rather harrowing events while remaining respectful to the facts,…

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  March 30, 2024

  Historical Fiction

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• Ruta Sepetys Does it Again in I Must Betray You

  I am writing this months after having read I Must Betray You which only proves that Ruta Sepetys’s work is so profound and rich and haunting that I am able to speak of it with such clarity after so long. I Must Betray You is an absolute gem of a book. It is a living…

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  January 4, 2024

  Historical Fiction

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• The Fountains of Silence – Harrowing Modern History Within Our Reach

  As a self-proclaimed historian, having minored in history in university, I thought I had a rather broad but educated sense of modern history. Surely the most significant events between WWI and now I would’ve heard, right? Wrong. I had absolutely no idea that something like this was going on for decades and that it occurred…

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  July 11, 2023

  Historical Fiction

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