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circumstances below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her young daughter Helen--and a host of relatives who might because she was stealing loved ones' treasured possessions, breaking into homes, lying, and frequently fighting

King by Linnea Hartsuyker is the first in a completed trilogy of the same name that links historical fiction

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Her bitter mother has just had another baby, and her various other siblings are fighting for resources She can't help wondering if she might possibly be here to stay of if she'll be thrust back into her rough

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medieval setting, magical elements, a story within a story, romantasy without swooning, and characters fighting They fight, they figure things out, and they fall in love.

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Certain characters' emotional roller coasters and loyalties felt abhorrent in light of what I believed

I adore a character-driven science fiction tale. Also, time travel! This totally hit the spot.

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governments, and criminals thought to be unredeemable are sent back to the time of dinosaurs, presumably to fight Most of the action occurs in more modern-day timelines. such feelings, and the characters seemed secure in what felt likely to be impossibly morally fraught actions and that actively manipulating outcomes related to life and death on the scale presented in the story might If you like books that play with time, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting

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