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Carla
Logic is important. I have tossed books where I found the reasons for plot turns leaked and dripped because their construction couldn't hold water, so I usually avoid fantasy, except for Ursula LeGuin. But this book is on a level that surpassed all the praise from the most demanding lists. The writing, truly like a Dickens/Austen grade hand-made, gourmet delicacy, was delicious and addicting from beginning to end.
There is such intelligence, combined with wit, originality and skill to equal or su
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