Review: The Kingdom of Back

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Let's try a little something different from Marie Lu, one that's definitely not sci-fi but still gets speculative with a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane kind of story. To read the author's note, though, and see that this was Lu's first attempt at writing, and the story that got her her agent, it's very nice to see the seeds of where she began her career. And while this book may not have made her name the way Legend did in 2011, 2020 would...