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Beauty

By Robin McKinley

4 stars

Pleasant, happy retelling of Beauty and the Beast with (a bit of) a feminist spin.
The Wayfinder

By Adam Johnson

5 stars

Wow, great book. Set in an undated but pre-European Tongan-dominated Pacific, featuring parrots, poetry and dances, lost islands, various nasty people and a few beautiful souls. Johnson has clearly done heaps and heaps of research - he's not Pasifika himself, but I learned more about island cultures from this novel than I have from a year teaching in a Pasifika-dominated school. And it's not going to make you miss the good old days!
Ghosts of Gondwana

By George Gibbs

5 stars

Super interesting, but even though it's intended for lay readers, it's still dense. Read as much as I could while I was at someone else's bach with it!
Eragon

By Christopher Paolini

4 stars

I thought it was better as an adult than when I read it as a child! The human relationships are pretty real.
The Nutmeg's Curse

By Amitav Ghosh

3 stars

Starts well, with an intense story about Dutch colonisation in the 'nutmeg islands' of Indonesia, and then goes on to urge some interesting thoughts about European colonialism, a mindset toward planetary resources, and the current climate crisis. But it felt increasingly waffle-y, without the clear evidence of the first chapter. Didn't finish, but did make me think.
Bound by Knighthood

By Nicki Chapelway

3 stars

Not bad, some good ideas about how magic operates.

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