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The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)

James S.A. Corey

Start date: July 15, 2025

Finish date: August 1, 2025

Discussion: AW BOOK CLUB (spoilers)

Why we're reading this: August 2025 book club selection, ready anytime before August 1st, when the discussion opens.
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Sep 04, 2025 Holli rated it it was amazing

Shelves: listened-to-it

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I just love these writers. This is a great beginning. Like most big books that are the start of a series, it takes awhile to understand the setting and all the characters, but it looks to be another great series and now I have to wait until April to read the next one.

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Aug 23, 2024 Alexander Veee rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, read-2024, books-i-own, science-fiction

'The impulse to carry their history with them, to be the same research group they'd been at Irvian, to will some kind of familiar order into their daily lives... It had been hard to resist. It had also been an illusion. The truth was that they'd had their lives cut in two. Before and after. Everything they'd known and thought and believed and hoped, and then... And then, the Carryx.'

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