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?).
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?).
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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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...
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?