Blog Archives - Alison Ver Halen

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A book about the healing power of books? And rest? It must have been tailor-made for me!

Holden is kinda dealing with his PTSD, but the fact that the Protomolecule is evolving is not helping.

A book about women who turn into dragons so they can leave their mediocre lives behind and go on adventures? Yes, please!

This book has the slow, thoughtful pacing of literary fiction with the intrigue of a murder mystery. I love it!

I don’t normally gravitate towards short stories, but I do gravitate towards Amor Towles and this collection did not disappoint!

The book takes 500 pages to cover the events of a few months, but it moved so quickly I couldn’t put it down.

The likes of Clarence Thomas are nothing new, and they’re not going anywhere.

Would you give up anything for love? Even your mortality?

Is Nona Harrow? Gideon? Or both? Maybe she’s neither? Maybe she’s more powerful than both of them combined.

Is Adina really alien? Is she a human with Autism? Does it matter?