 Icelandic cafe decor. These are color coordinated books that look cool, but the books have been cut away about 3 inches from the spine so that they can be displayed. The bookshelves don't need to be full sized this way, but the books are unreadable.
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 Marie Lu. 2011. I had previously read the original trilogy in this dystopian series that came out about ten years ago. If you lived The Hunger Games or the first Divergent book, then this will be right up your alley and the addition of a fourth book to the series did not disappoint. Because it had been so long since I had read the series, I went back and re-read the entire set, which I highly recommend doing since much of the richness of detail from the first stories tie nicely back into this one, which is set ten years after the last book. I particularly love how it characters have matured in the interim, but the distinctly YA flavor of the narrative continues with some of the focus of the storyline shifting to Day's younger brother's story. The addition of a Queer character's backstory that is entirely consistent with what was already there is a nice touch. The political commentary, the nuance of various financial structures, the complexity of propaganda, power, and community control is handled at a high level for a YA read. Add to that some powerful women characters, along with men grappling with what it means to support those powerful women in their lives while also figuring out how to be effective leaders themselves and you have a series that really should have gotten a lot more attention. Highly recommend.
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