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By Figgy · ★★★★★ · January 12, 2016
Featured on my 2014 favourites list!

THIS is what a quirky, dry humoured character SHOULD be.

4.5 stars rounded up because I couldn't bring myself to give this a 4.

This is one of my favourite new reads so far this year.




Plot: Lauren Chase didn't make plans to travel into the desert, she just decid ...more
By Jessica · ★★★★★ · January 05, 2015
Things I've lost:

A dozen chapsticks
24 dragon bookmarks
A library book by Poul Anderson that I never finished
Several bags of candy intended for Easter baskets

Things I've found:

That Sarah Beth Durst is one of the most creative and astonishing writers working today.
That I enjoy the hell out of every o ...more
By Rashika (is tired) · ★★★★☆ · May 27, 2014
***This review has also been posted on The Social Potato
“To quote a certain cat, ‘we’re all mad here’”

The Lost is pretty hard book to review. I want to say so many things about it but at the same time I don’t know where to start and how to even express my feelings for this book.

Perhaps I should ...more
By Nafiza · ★★★★☆ · November 17, 2015


The Lost presents a familiar premise where a daughter decides that she would much rather get in the car and go driving in an unfamiliar direction than go home and find out whether her mom’s cancer is back. She drives through a dust storm and ends up, officially, in Lost: a place where all things and ...more
By Tanja (Tanychy) · ★★★★★ · May 23, 2014
Review also posted at Ja čitam, a ti?

There are books that dance on tightrope between reality and imagination and all I can say for this one is - it's quite a dancer. I have no idea which genre to put it in. For me this book was everything I needed without knowing so. It captured me and took me to an ...more
By Kelly · ★★★★☆ · July 21, 2014
You never know what Sarah Beth Durst is going to do next. Fairy tales mixed with science? Vampires and unicorns? Gods taking over human bodies? Creepy carnivals? She’s done all of that and more, and with The Lost, Durst begins another story that, just like her previous novels, is completely differen ...more
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