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Lightlark: Alex Aster (The Lightlark Saga, 1)- (Mass-Market)-(Budget-Print)
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#BookTok phenomenon and award-winning author Alex Aster delivers readers a masterfully written, utterly gripping YA fantasy novel Welcome to the Centennial. Every 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The invitation is a summons―a call to embrace victory and ruin, baubles and blood. The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. Each ruler has something to hide. Each realm’s curse is uniquely wicked. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die. Isla Crown is the young ruler of Wildling―a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with. They are feared and despised and are counting on Isla to end their suffering by succeeding at the Centennial. To survive, Isla must lie, cheat, and betray…even as love complicates everything. Filled with secrets, deception, romance, and twists worthy of the darkest thrillers, Lightlark is a must-read for fans of legendary fantasy writers Marie Lu, Marissa Meyer, and Leigh Bardugo.
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#BookTok phenomenon and award-winning author Alex Aster delivers readers a masterfully written, utterly gripping YA fantasy novel Welcome to the Centennial. Every 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The invitation is a summons―a call to embrace victory and ruin, baubles and blood. The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. Each ruler has something to hide. Each realm’s curse is uniquely wicked. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die. Isla Crown is the young ruler of Wildling―a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with. They are feared and despised and are counting on Isla to end their suffering by succeeding at the Centennial. To survive, Isla must lie, cheat, and betray…even as love complicates everything. Filled with secrets, deception, romance, and twists worthy of the darkest thrillers, Lightlark is a must-read for fans of legendary fantasy writers Marie Lu, Marissa Meyer, and Leigh Bardugo.
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May 28, 2022
Good book. Great read. Witty and lol funny!
Apr 18, 2022
Arguably Dostoyevsky’s greatest novel and in a perfect penguin book.
Feb 1, 2022
Just GOOD.
Sep 2, 2021
Typical Dostoevsky tale of disappointment with frequent diversions into political philosophy and religion. Good, but not as good as Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karomazov by some distance, read those first if you haven't already......Its a good book by anyone else's standards but its a bit dull by his standards. Its just not that exciting a plot and there's a few superfluous characters that add to the confusion (as they each have about 5 names) but don't really add anything to the story. Great ending though.
May 22, 2021
The most absorbing book I have read this year. An easy read in terms of language but demanding in its ideas and emotions. Recommended.
Apr 19, 2021
Perfect.
Mar 10, 2021
It's been forty years since I read this and, apart from remembering that I'd enjoyed it (or, more specifically, enjoyed meeting the challenge it posed), couldn't recall anything about it apart from the Christ-like nature of the eponymous Prince Myshkin. In search of some Lenten reading, I pulled it off the shelf a couple of weeks ago.Set in Russia in the latter part of the nineteenth century, it's the dense, complicated story of Myshkin and his interactions with a wide group of characters, including the beautiful, suffering Nastasya Fillipovna, the passionate, jealous Rogózhin and the proud, beautiful Agláya Ivánovna. These four form two love triangles (each of which contains Myshkin and Nastasya) and, in one sense, the novel is "about" how these play out. However, this is enfolded in the actions and speec... More
Jan 24, 2021
I've wanted to read this book since I was in university (over a decade ago) but always got distracted by other newer, shinier works and I can't help but think I'd have enjoyed it that much more if I had't been so far removed from my days of being well versed in philosophy and theology.Thankfully the object of my affection has never openly laughed at me, nor has pretty much anything else in the book happened to me but oh. my. word. did I relate to Myshkin's sense of longing.While I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, I admit I sometimes found it sometimes difficult to distinguish some characters from others, maybe because of unfamiliar Russian names and/oe switching from surname to patronymic and such. It's not particularly plot-driven but I loved inhabiting this world and seeing how other characters were imp... More
Jan 2, 2021
Beautiful, touching and deep. No spoilers here... just read it. One of the few book to give me an involuntary physical reaction... at one point, I couldn't help exclaiming... "You idiot!"
Jul 22, 2020
Great
May 25, 2020
Rambled on a bit slowly but nonetheless very well written
Mar 30, 2020
I have never seen anything like it. For a Penguin, quite astonishing. The book was bound back to front and is quite unreadable. I am just wondering who is the idiot here, not Dostoyevsky.
