"Flight" by Kristen Young

About this book:

  “On the cusp of graduation, Cadence is finally feeling in control. She’s about to become one of the prestigious Elites working in the Hall of Love. Plus, she can take her place as a full member of the underground Sirens who meet secretly in Love City. She’ll finally be able to use her memory skills for good, instead of reporting people as a Watcher.
    But a dangerous trap is set, throwing Cadence into unwelcome and unfamiliar territory. Someone in the Collective remembers things that could very well get her killed. The Muse is by her side, after all, but will she be protected when someone powerful wants her dead?
    Cadence just wants to be normal, free from politics or squad intimidation. Will she be able to achieve her Elite dreams, or will sinister forces leave her running for her life?”


Series: Book #3 in the “Collective Underground” trilogy. Review of Book #1 Here! And Book #2 Here!


Spiritual Content- There are other names for God, Jesus, & the Holy Spirit (Composer, Lyric, & the Muse); Christians are called Sirens because they sing Scriptures; Many Scriptures (called “fragments of the Song”) are quoted, remembered, & sung (with the names replaced for the names used in this world); Cadence is called the Songbook because of her photographic memory  that can remember all of the fragments she hears; Prayers & a blessing over food; Many talks about the Composer, Lyric, the Muse, & trusting them; 'H's are not capital when referring to the Composer or Lyric; Seeing Lyric; The Muse (Holy Spirit) talks to Cadence & she feels peace; Meetings with the Sirens, singing Scriptures, & receiving a blessing from a leader; Cadence isn’t sure how to tell someone that Lyric is so amazing; Cadence recalls someone telling her that The Composer is a fairytale & that he was glad it was outlawed by the government (Book #2, *Spoiler* that same character has changed and is a Siren now; Cadence thinks it’s an act and wants others to see his true personality, but eventually realizes that he’s sincere and forgives him *End of Spoiler*); Cadence ignores the nudges the Muse is giving her when she’s determined to prove that someone is putting on an act, which later causes her to not be able to hear the Composer and wonder if He thinks she’s no longer worth the effort (she snaps out of this thought when a song comes to mind to remind her that the Composer hasn’t forgotten her); Mentions of when Lyric (Jesus) was strung up on a tree by the government & Sirens singing about His return; Mentions of prayers & praying; Mentions of Sirens meeting and singing songs (of Scriptures) & Sirens using a secret hand motion when meeting others; Mentions of a necklace & a mural of Lyric’s tree (a “tree with a small, stylized figure of a person’s shadow on it”); A few mentions of people receiving visions of Lyric; A few mentions of Lyric’s country (Heaven); 
             *Note: “Love all, be all” is used as a common greeting/slogan; The phrase “how on (the) Composer’s green earth” is said three times; A few mentions of people saying that a man has miraculous powers, zapped someone back to life, & was able to make someone float in the air (all untrue exaggerations); A mention of an LED light giving someone an almost demonic glow. 
 

Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘sucking up’, two ‘blah, blah, blah’s, two forms of ‘dumb’, three ‘what the—‘s, five ‘idiot’s, and nineteen forms of ‘stupid’; Made-up curses/phrases (can all be changed to actual cursing): a ‘Haters’, a ‘for Love’s sake’, and a ‘what the Love—‘; Sarcasm & Eye rolling; Being chased, being tased and kicked, being knocked-out, knocking someone out, being kidnapped, being tied-up, being shot at, almost drowning, being drugged through an (implied) alcoholic drink, & being hung over (all up to semi-detailed); Pain, Injuries, Receiving stitches, Blood/Bleeding (semi-detailed); Getting a tattoo removed & major pain (semi-detailed); Seeing others attacked, beaten, tased, & arrested (semi-detailed); A group of gangsters (called “The Orphans”) throw a child into a pool of water to make a statement (the child nearly drowns but is revived, up to semi-detailed); Recalling a bomb & being tied-up (Book #2, up to semi-detailed); Nightmares (up to semi-detailed); Cadence is physically and verbally bullied by an adult leader (including him threatening to choke her, up to semi-detailed); After being betrayed in the 2^nd Book, Cadence doesn’t think that person deserves to be happy and gives herself the mission to reveal that person’s true personality to everyone (She calls it “righteous anger” *Spoiler* that character has changed and is a Siren now; Cadence eventually realizes that he’s sincere and forgives him *End of Spoiler*; Cadence lies a few times for her, others’ safety, or to tell someone what they want to hear; Many mentions of hate/hatred (which threaten their empire), Haters (which are deemed the enemy (followers of the Haterman *Spoiler* Who is Lyric (Jesus) *End of Spoiler*) to the government system that is all about love), the Purging (which was when the government took over and eliminated anyone who stood in their way), & the government tracking down Haters to kill them (because “Haters do not deserve to live in this beautiful world we have made for ourselves” according to one leader); Many mentions of stabbings, blood/bleeding, pain, & injuries (up to semi-detailed); Mentions of a show where Haters are publicly execution & Haters being beaten and killed (border-line barely-above-not-detailed to semi-detailed); Mentions of weapons (guns, gunfire, a drone that has razor-sharp metallic pinchers, tasers, electric nets, & gas canisters); Mentions of Embracement (public executions); Mentions of treason, a terrorist, bombs, & an explosion (Book #2, barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of rebellions & rebels; Mentions of arrests, beatings, torture, & deaths (up to semi-detailed); Mentions of a fire, bodies, deaths, & injuries (up to semi-detailed); Mentions of a near drowning & screams (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of Realignment & those who were realigned (brainwashed); Mentions of gangs & gangsters; Mentions of lies, lying, liars, & deceit; Mentions of nightmares (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of tattoos (all apprentices have an ID that is a tattoo on their wrist); A few mentions of stitches & scars; A few mentions of being drugged & an alcoholic drink; A few mentions of grieving (a mentor); A couple mentions of wars; A couple mentions of two guys looking like they would cut someone’s throat; A couple mentions of children being abducted & brainwashed; A couple mentions of a con-man & scams; A couple mentions of rumors; A mention of wanting to do something but knowing it would be suicide; A mention of someone running away from home; A mention of someone being out of their mind and on “some substance”; A mention of gambling; A mention of graffiti; A mention of jealousy; 
             *Note: A mention of looking like a zombie.
 
 
Sexual Content- Noticing, Nearness, & Smelling (barely-above-not-detailed); Touches, Embraces, Hand holding, & Butterflies (barely-above-not-detailed); Blushes & Winks; Hodge reminds Cadence of their “first night” (no details given); Mentions of how “fraternizing” isn’t allowed between Apprentices unless it’s a festival time and then there’s a bunch of a couples fraternizing and getting close (including a mention out of the bushes); Mentions of flirting, blushes, winks, crushes, & being interested in someone; A couple mentions of embraces; A bit of love, being in love, & the emotions;
             *Note: Cadence’s pants are removed by a doctor to treat her injuries (she’s too out of it to care); A mention of scantily clad dancers; A mention of a place filled with pheromones.
 
-Kerr Flick/Cadence
                                1^st person P.O.V. switches of Cadence
                                            Fantasy/Dystopian 
                                                        276 pages

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My personal Rating- 

I really wanted to like this third and final book in this series. I really did. 

But I’m ending the book somewhat confused and feeling very jipped.

This dystopian series definitely isn’t the normal “let’s over throw the corrupt government” plotline that you see in so many dystopian series. It should be noted that I really like that plotline, personally. However, I wasn’t opposed to this one being different and I liked that it was overall different. 

It’s been a couple months since I read the prior book, so it took me a while to catch up and remember past events and who everyone was. Once I remembered what was going on, it was nice to see certain characters again. I was quite lost though. Set three years after the ending of the second book, this book picks up with full speed and give only crumbs of details that happened in those three years. I feel jipped. I got to see none of the romance blooming between her and Hodge, and that’s just a jipped feeling for this YA clean romance fan. 

Besides the feeling of trying to catch-up when reading, I was annoyed with Flick/Cadence at times for her reaction to someone reappearing. I totally get why she hated that person, but it felt like a very…juvenile problem for the current situation she was in. 

“Flight” is a really good title for this. The ending was--like the rest of the series--different, but I didn’t hate it or feel upset. I just wish there had been more because I did feel a bit unsatisfied after the abrupt ending. 

This trilogy could definitely be interesting for older readers who want something different than  the typical dystopian plotline, but it’s not a favorite of mine. 

 
 
See y’all on Monday with a new review! 

*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.

"Elite" by Kristen Young

About this book:

  “Where do you find safety when your world is falling apart?
    Apprentice Flick thought the Elite Academy was the answer to all her problems. But the revelation of her past turned everything upside down. Now, she is caught between two worlds set on a collision course.
    Will she embrace the chaotic memories that flood her every waking moment? Or will she run to the security of her Elite training?
    Discovering her parents’ identities takes her to a secret underground bunker where she finds new friends, opportunities, and maybe even love. But Flick must decide where her allegiances lie soon, or the Triumph of Love festival might bring about her demise.”


Series: Book #2 in the “Collective Underground” trilogy. Review of Book #1 Here!


Spiritual Content- There are other names for God, Jesus, & the Holy Spirit (Composer, Lyric, & the Muse); Christians are called Sirens because they sing Scriptures; Many Scriptures (called fragments of the Song) are quoted, remembered, & sung (with the names replaced for the names used in this world); Prayers; Many Talks about the Composer, Lyric, & the Muse, & Lyric’s sacrifice for us (said to have taken the character’s “broken melody and replaces it with his own”, making Himself mute for his family to receive the Composer’s gift); 'H's are not capital when referring to the Composer or Lyric; Seeing Lyric; Kerr doesn’t think she’s good enough for the Composer and that He wouldn’t want her because she’s “done (bad) things” (*Spoiler* About a 1/3 through, she asks Lyric to be her home *End of Spoiler*); *Spoiler* Someone that professes to be a Siren is actually a traitor and that the Composer is a fairytale and is evil *End of Spoiler*; Mentions of Lyric’s tree, a festival that the Collective celebrates the day they had Lyric strung up on a tree, & a statue that they burn of Him every year; Mentions of Sirens meeting and singing songs (of Scriptures) & Sirens using a secret hand motion when meeting others; Mentions of the Love Collective trying to force others to swear oaths of allegiance and bow to Supreme Lover Midgate, and that even though it would be easier to do so, the Sirens did not (and were killed); A few mentions of prayers & praying; A few mentions of miracles; A mention of someone believing that they are the Composer’s “avenging angels”; 

             *Note: “Love all, be all” is used as a common greeting/slogan as well as others telling the apprentices to “find themselves in the universe”; Mentions of ghosts and ghouls (such as feeling like a ghost, haunting a place like a ghost, the ghosts of others chasing you, a ghostlike procession of cars, looking like a ghoul, & someone’s face looking like a ghoulish mask); A mention of someone being an alien due to a major personality change; A mention of the Stone Age primitivism. 

 

Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘dumb’, a ‘gah!’, a ‘sheesh’, a ‘shut up’, a ‘what the—‘, two ‘blah, blah, blah’s, two ‘freaking’s, nine forms of ‘idiot’, and ten forms of ‘stupid’; A mention of someone being “full of it”; Made-up curses/phrases: a ‘love knows’, a ‘what the Love’, two ‘Love knows what’s, two ‘what in Love’s name’s, and three ‘for Love’s sake’s; Mentions of curses (including a couple by Kerr, said, not written); Sarcasm & Eye rolling; Kerr lies a few times for her or others’ safety; Pain & Panic (similar to panic attacks, up to semi-detailed); Being held at knife-point, being tied-up, & pain (barely-above-not-detailed); Recalling being slapped & pain (barely-above-not-detailed); Seeing other’s being hit/attacked, their injuries, & blood/bleeding (including some implied to be domestic abuse, up to semi-detailed); An explosion (up to semi-detailed); Kerr struggles with knowing about a family member’s death & feeling like she was a part of it happening and is a murderer (up to semi-detailed); Kerr feels like there’s blood on her hands for her position in the Academy (to report suspicious people where many of them are killed); Kerr starts to think that it would be easier if someone died (but that train of thought is stopped); Kerr recalling her abduction as a child (up to semi-detailed); Seeing a club with people drinking (barely-above-not-detailed); Many, many mentions of Hate (which threaten their empire), Haters (which are deemed the enemy (followers of the Haterman *Spoiler* Who is Lyric (Jesus) *End of Spoiler*) to the government system that is all about love), & the government tracking down Haters to kill them; Mentions of a show where Haters are publicly execution & Haters being beaten, their blood and pain, & weapons (border-line barely-above-not-detailed to semi-detailed); Mentions of Embracement (public executions); Mentions of murders & murderers (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of wars, fights, bombs, dead bodies, & deaths (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of hitting, being hit/slapped, seeing other’s attacked/hit, pain, injuries, & blood/bleeding (some implied to be domestic abuse, up to semi-detailed); Mentions of children being abducted & brainwashed (up to semi-detailed); Mentions of treason, a terrorist plan, bombs, & an explosion (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of thieves & stealing; Mentions of arrests; Mentions of nightmares (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of a club, alcohol/drinks, drinking, & drunks; Mentions of lies, lying, & liars; A few mentions of jealousy; A couple mentions of the possibility of death or torture; A couple mentions of drug dealers; A couple mentions of bullies (Book #1); A couple mentions of throwing up; A couple mentions of tattoos; A couple mentions of dead fish (barely-above-not-detailed); A mention of a statue of a Hater after their beheading; A mention of betting; A mention of urine; 

             *Note: A couple mentions of mental programming (brainwashing) that turns people into a vegetable. 

 

 

Sexual Content- A fingers-to-lips touch; A bit of staring at someone’s lips (not-detailed); Touches, Embraces, Warmth, Hand holding, Smelling, & Nearness (including Kerr’s nerves and “sensations” going off, up to semi-detailed); Recalling Touches, Embraces, Warmth, & Nearness (barely-above-not-detailed); Blushes & Winks; Noticing (including a guy’s bare chest, barely-above-not-detailed); Kerr has a few warnings about a guy, but pushes them away because of how she feels about him; Kerr and a guy go to a Love Hotel for a mission (nothing sexual happens, but Kerr is very uncomfortable going there and there’s hints to what happens at such a place such as the guy teasingly saying they’ll have two hours of “passion”, a maid telling them not to “do doing what these animals do when they think nobody’s looking”, messing up a bed cover’s to implied something happened, & the hotel’s video entertainment that is “adult entertainment” and aimed for their clientele’s seedy taste); Seeing a club & women leaning on men while feeding them, the a man kissing one, & one of the woman being pushed onto a man’s lap (possibly prostitutes); Seeing a man’s eyes devouring woman bought to entertain him and other men (possibly prostitutes); A man asks if another man is “sampling the Nurseries [the place where underage Apprentices train] again” to which he replies that the man is drunk; Mentions of how “fraternizing” isn’t allowed between Apprentices unless it’s a festival time and then there’s a bunch of a couples being snuggled against each other, them kissing and touching each other, & their “canoodling”; Mentions of flirting & a girl toying with a guy (barely-above-not-detailed); A few mentions of an older man being interested in the “juicy details” of a couple’s potential time together (implied to be intimately) & his hungry look; A mention of the air being charged with “pheromones and desire”; A mention of an Apprentice sitting on another’s lap (opposite gender); A mention of a chaperone; 

             *Note: A couple mentions of the Pleasure Tribe that does entertainment for population and someone’s physique” (said with a hesitation) being good for the performance stream; A mention of a woman’s teensy dress; A mention of testosterone. 

 

-Kerr Flick
                                1^st person P.O.V. of Kerr 

                                          Fantasy/Dystopian
                                                        295 pages

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My personal Rating- 

{Due to some suggestions (listed in the Sexual Content), the ratings are lower.}

Now this? This was the dystopian take-down-the-corrupt-government plotline I was looking forward to reading. The first book was mainly a lot of setting the stage of the world and characters, but this sequel was where the action happens. 

I have so many thoughts, but I lot of them of spoilers, so I’ll be vague when I say I felt justified for my dislike for a certain character and was nearly screaming when it was revealed I was right. 

Kerr acted a bit young at different parts, but I had to remind myself that she was basically brainwashed and never really hung out with the opposite gender, to excuse her reactions to different romantic/crush-like parts. On that note, though, there were a couple parts I was uncomfortable with such as Kerr and a guy going to a Love Hotel for a mission, and while nothing sexual happens between the two of them, there’s quite a bit of alluding to what happens at such a place. There are also hints of prostitutes and an official being attracted to minors that affected the ratings listed above. I would have happily given this book a higher rating had those parts not be in it. 

There’s a ton more faith content in this sequel compared to the first, thanks to Kerr learning more and the certain group of people. There’s other names for God, Jesus, & the Holy Spirit (Composer, Lyric, & the Muse) but it’s all very obvious on Who they are talking about. 

I was concerned that this one would end on a cliff-hanger, but a big thank you to the author that it didn’t! I’m still eager to read the next book, but I’m glad I’m not on the edge of a cliff waiting to read it. ;) 

 

 

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*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.

 

"Apprentice" by Kristen Young

About this book:

  “The Love Collective is everywhere. It sees everything. Be not afraid.
   Apprentice Flick remembers everything, except the first five years of her life. And for as long as she can remember, Flick has wanted to enter the Elite Academy - home to the best, brightest, and most loyal members of the Love Collective government.
   Flick's uncanny memory might get her there, too … even if it is the very thing that marks her as a freak. But frightening hallucinations start intruding into her days and threaten to bring down all she has worked so hard to accomplish. Why is she being hijacked by a stranger's nightmare over and over again?
   Moving to the Elite Academy could give Flick the future she's always wanted. But her search for truth may lead to a danger she cannot escape.
   Apprentice Flick remembers everything, except the first five years of her life. And for as long as she can remember, Flick has wanted to enter the Elite Academy - home to the best, brightest, and most loyal members of the Love Collective government.
   Flick's uncanny memory might get her there, too … even if it is the very thing that marks her as a freak. But frightening hallucinations start intruding into her days and threaten to bring down all she has worked so hard to accomplish. Why is she being hijacked by a stranger's nightmare over and over again?
   Moving to the Elite Academy could give Flick the future she's always wanted. But her search for truth may lead to a danger she cannot escape.”

Series: Book #1 in the “Collective Underground” trilogy. 

Spiritual Content- A couple mentions of a hallucination/dream of “Lyric” who is “wrapped in beams of glorious light” (the author’s acknowledgements implies that this is representing Christ); A mention of being blessed; 
             *Note: “Love all, be all” is used as a common greeting/slogan as well as others telling the apprentices to “find themselves in the universe”; Flick bows all the way to the floor to Supreme Lover Migate; A few mentions of someone acting like an alien (in regards to their personality completely changing); A mention of being stared at like an alien; A mention of looking like you saw a ghost. 
 

Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘stinkin’, a ‘weenie’, a ‘wouldn’t give two flying…’, a ‘you’re full of it’, two ‘gah’s, two ‘what the—‘s, three ‘duh’s, seven forms of ‘dumb’, seven forms of ‘shut up’, eight ‘idiot’, and eighteen forms of ‘stupid’; Made-up curses/phrases: a ‘Hater witch’, a ‘Haterman in a basket of Haters’, a ‘Hater in a pile of Haters’, a ‘how in the love’, a ‘love knows’, three ‘what the love’s, and three ‘ohmylove’s;  Sarcasm & Eye rolling; Flick lies (white lies) a few times; A couple VR situations of a young child being held at knife-point and shooting at them (barely-above-not-detailed) & going against a riot and using weapons against them (up to semi-detailed); When Flick messes up protocol a call times, she thinks she should be shot or killed for it; Pain, Screaming, Hallucinations/Nightmares, & Blacking out (up to semi-detailed); Being hit & slapped (up to semi-detailed); Claustrophobia & Similar to panic attacks; Being picked-on by a group of bullies & their name-calling and taunting; Throwing up; A girl acts like she’s aiming a gun at Flick (twice); *Spoiler* It’s revealed at the end that The Love Collective (Government) abducts children (including from medical kidnapping) and Flick’s hallucinations are actually her memories resurfacing of her own abduction; Flick recalls her mother’s death on the TV show that kills Haters, but doesn’t reaction until she’s told much later that it was her mother; A few mentions of mentions of other abductions *End of Spoiler*; Many mentions of hallucinations/nightmares, screams, & pain (barely-above-not-detailed); Many mentions of Hate (which threaten their empire) & Haters (which are deemed the enemy (followers of the Haterman) to the government system that is all about love (it’s said that the Haterman was the ruler of the world and everyone hated each other, and adds that Supreme Lover Midgate sought to bring peace and ruled with love)); Mentions of VR situations of a young child being held at knife-point, both being shot, their bodies and blood, & riots (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of a show where Haters are publicly execution (including mentions of dog attacks, lasers slicing through the Haters, them being beaten, branding them, one being impaled, electrocuting them, being attacked by wild beasts, blood, pain, & screams, border-line barely-above-not-detailed to semi-detailed) & weapons; Mentions of Embracement (public executions, including a girl saying she would have someone else embraced if she could); Mentions of taunting others with stories of deaths/dying, disappearing, & being eaten by a rabid Hater; Mentions of fighting, hitting, injuries, & blood/bleeding (up to semi-detailed): Mentions of seeing other children and teens shocked/tased & their pain (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of pain, being slapped, & someone being kicked (up to semi-detailed); Mentions of bullies, bullying, beating up others, & threats (including boys bullying girls); Mentions of prisoners & prisons; Mentions of hatred; Mentions of lies, lying, & liars; Mentions of jealousy; Mentions of tattoos; Mentions of throwing up; A few mentions of cheaters & cheating; A few mentions of rumors; A couple mentions of a war; A couple mentions of treason; A couple mentions of eavesdropping; A mention of a flock of vultures fighting over a corpse; A mention that someone’s expression could kill a small animal; 
             *Note: A couple mentions of a possibility of a machine that fry someone’s brains and turns them into a vegetable; A mention of zombies. 

 
 
Sexual Content- A touch & warmth (and remembering it, barely-above-not-detailed); Some blushes, butterflies, & winks; A bit of noticing a guy; A misunderstanding of thinking that a guy is going to do something to Flick & he says he won’t lay a hand on her; Mentions of a guy and girl being snuggled against each other & their “canoodling”; Mentions of flirting, a girl touching a guy’s chest with an “invitation in her voice”, & her leaning all over other guys; A couple mentions of a gorgeous guy; A mention of a girl’s seductive curl to her lips; A mention of drooling over someone; 
             *Note: A couple mentions of the Pleasure Tribe that does entertainment for population, but also provides “personal services” for their clients (said with a smirk); A mention of flabby butts; A mention of landing on their butt.
 
-Kerr Flick, age 15-16
                                1^st person P.O.V. of Flick 
                                          Fantasy/Dystopian
                                                        277 pages

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Pre Teens- 

New Teens- 

Early High School Teens- 

Older High School Teens- 

My personal Rating- 

{Ratings are for content, but please note the lack of Christian content found in this first book.}

Dystopian books are my favorite type of story in the fantasy/sci-fi genre because rebelling against a corrupt government? I’m in. 

So, I went into this book expecting that plot line. Well, it took the majority of the book to get to that element. The first half (150 pages) is really just setting the stage and giving a lot of context, therefore it felt very slow to me because of that. Also the…choices of the terms/names (like Love vs Hate, Haterman, the Supreme Lover and whatnot) pulled me out of the story in the beginning, to be honest, but I understand the concept. Once it picked up around page 200, I became much more involved in the story and last few chapters sold me on reading the next book and bumped my personal rating up from a 3 to a 3.5 star. 

On Flick, we don’t really see her emotions, so I had a hard time connecting to or even caring about her. When we see glimpses of personality from Flick, they almost felt out of place to me since they were rare events. The change in her happened too suddenly, in my opinion, but I was excited to see the story picking up and hopefully see more of her character development in the second book. 

While there is a parallel to Christianity (a couple mentions of someone named Lyric that implies Christ) in this story, it’s very light and I’m curious to see if there will be faith content in the next two books. 

 

 

 

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 *BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.