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re-read 7/11/24 - I can't believe this book came out 10 years ago. I've read it 6 times now and everytime I love it even more.
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re-read 8/7/19 - I will never get tired of reading this book. Never!
re-read 11/25/18 - Still, and always will, love Ariq.
re-read 2/24/16 - I needed an Ariq fix!
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re-read 12/24/14 (originally read June 2014)
This was probably my favorite book of 2014. It has everything - action, adventure, emotions, a badas ...more
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re-read 8/7/19 - I will never get tired of reading this book. Never!
re-read 11/25/18 - Still, and always will, love Ariq.
re-read 2/24/16 - I needed an Ariq fix!
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re-read 12/24/14 (originally read June 2014)
This was probably my favorite book of 2014. It has everything - action, adventure, emotions, a badas ...more

I loved this book. The protagonist in this book is Zenobia Fox, Archemides’s wily and brilliant sister who is the real writer of his wildly popular eponymous adventure sagas. Tired of only vicariously living through her brothers’ adventures she happily accepts the invitation to accompany Helena, her childhood friend, to the the equivalent of (I think) China, in the alternate history in which this fantastic and fantastical world has been built, and where, incidentally, Helena’s husband’s an ambas
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