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Oct 24, 2012
Cora
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it was amazing
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Set outside London during the Blitz, David is a young boy dealing with the grief of his mother passing away and the unwanted reality that his father has remarried and he now has a new half-brother. David retreats to reading the books he and his mother loved. When his father meets Rose, David starts having unexplained black outs where he dreams of a world far away and he starts hearing the book talk. One day, David hears his mother's voice calling him. He follows the voice into a world out of the
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I really enjoyed this book, especially as I kept reading it. By the end of the book, I was really emotionally invested in it and then the end just packed a real punch. Highly recommended!
Boy this book was gory.
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