Moving on to The Binding by Bridget Collins, as that's what my partner has suggested (and somehow we own two copies and one of them is signed?).

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Read my ★★★★ review of Bridget Collins' 2019 debut novel "The Binding," a unique urban fantasy tale about an alt-world where novels are literal memories stolen from human brains by magic, but that I unfortunately liked less than her mindblowing 2020 follow-up, the "1920s fascism meets Hogwarts meets The Game" thriller "The Betrayals." https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5472125601

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Jason Pettus's review of The Binding

4/5: 2023 reads, #34. It's been nine months now since I read the latest novel by admired cross-genre "slipstream" author Bridget Collins, the "1920s fascism meets Hogwarts meets The Game" bizarro emo thriller The Betrayals, which of course I adored (you had me at "1920s fascism bizarro slipstream emo thriller"); but I learned at that point that many of Collins' existing fans actually preferred her debut novel a year previous to that, the Victorian alt-history urban fantasy tale The Binding, so I figured I might as well put that on reserve at the Chicago Public Library as well, and I just got aro...

Just finished reading The Binding by Bridget Collins and would definitely recommend it 🙃 Easy to read and it draws you in as you wonder what’s really going on - and in the end impossible to put down 🎉
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Up next on #BeatTheBacklog is The Binding by Bridget Collins!

I’ve heard nothing but good things and it definitely has been sitting on my shelf for a while 🫣

What did you think of it?

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