Drawing on extensive research into hitherto unused archives and Freedom of Information requests, it makes the case that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were not the naïve dupes of the Germans but actively intrigued against Britain in both war and peace.

Anyone who has ever given a thought to the idea of romantic sacrifice knows the story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.  David, the first son of George V of England, abdicated his throne shortly after he was coronated Edward VIII.  This would be shocking today, but in the late 30s, it reverberated as the scandal of the time. Presumably, his only crime was falling in love with a twice-divorced American, Wallis Simpson.  This book starts as the Duke of Windsor (his post-kingly title) was leaving his home for the last time to meet Wallis and start his new life.   That is pretty much where the romance ends and real life, something neither of them were really equipped to handle, started

If you’ve watched the first season of The Crown, you know that the Windsor (née Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) family was less than thrilled with David and his decision, but by the time I finished reading, I was firmly of the opinion that his abdication was the best thing that could have happened to the Allied powers in WWII.  You would have also seen, in that episode, photos of the real Duke and Duchess shaking hands and smiling with a bunch of literal Nazis, including Der Führer himself.  (No, those photos were not fake.)  Traitor King stands on its well-researched facts and presents the picture of two people who at the most were dangerous traitors and, at the least, a 1930s/40s version of the old SNL skit “Two A-Holes”.   There is no doubt in my mind that the connection that Wallis had to high-ranking German officials and David’s more than passing curiosity about fascism made permission to marry Wallis about much more than the idea that the King could not marry a divorced woman. At the same time, there is something sad about the way they chose to carry on as not-quite-royals, never really seeing the good that could be done, but always looking back and taking what they thought was owed to them.  I could go on and on about this book and the way it laid out the facts using a narrative style that exposed both the titillating and horrifying events of their lives, but I will just tell you that it is far from a piece of dry historical non-fiction.  It’s not the romantic story I always envisioned, but the truth turns out to be much more consequential and interesting.

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Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women.

For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that ‘the Ripper’ preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time – but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.

So often, when Jack the Ripper’s name is mentioned, you might think of the murder of prostitutes or a dashing figure in the shadows, twirling a mustache and flashing a switchblade.  The reality is that the five horrific murders took place within months of each other and they stopped as quickly as they began with no answer to the identity of the murderer. It was the perfect situation for a society that lived for the sensational newspaper stories with a lot of imagination and not many facts.  In the wake of the murders was a psychological scar on the people of Whitechapel, the erroneous assumption that only sex workers were murdered, and the continued idea that bad things always happen to women who dare to make their way alone.

The Five centers the story of the victims rather than how they died or who killed them.   The author obviously did extremely detailed research piecing together maps with public inquiries and loosely factual newspaper articles.  Their entire lives are opened to the reader so that even though you know how it ends, a part of you hopes that maybe they’ll avoid their fate this time.  Hallie Rubenhold paints a fascinating and chilling picture of what life was like for working class women in the Victorian Era.  It was so easy to find oneself alone and at the whim of a patriarchy that gave women the option of being seen as perfect examples of moral femininity or as the harlot who was responsible for the downfall of society.  There was no in between.  The victims were women with full lives, ultimately tragic, but not defined by how they left the world. The writing was extremely engaging and the details about life in London so detailed, I felt as if I could walk the streets myself.   By writing this book, the author has taken back the myth of the Whitechapel Murders and made it about real women with real life and real struggles.  It’s been a long time since I have read a book so deeply compelling.

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When Alexandrina Victoria was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 20 June 1837, she was 18 years old and barely five feet tall. Her subjects were fascinated and intrigued; some felt sorry for her. Writer Thomas Carlyle, watching her gilded coach draw away from the coronation, said: 'Poor little Queen, she is at an age at which a girl can hardly be trusted to choose a bonnet for herself; yet a task is laid upon her from which an archangel might shrink.'

Queen Victoria is long dead, but in truth she has shaped us from the grave. She was a tiny, powerful woman who reigned for an astonishing 64 years. By the time of her Diamond Jubilee Procession in 1897, she reigned over a fourth of the inhabitable part of the world, had 400 million subjects, and had given birth to nine children. Suffrage, anti-poverty and anti-slavery movements can all be traced to her monumental reign, along with a profound rethinking of family life and the rise of religious doubt. When she died, in 1901, she was the longest reigning monarch in English history. Victoria is truly the woman who made the modern world.

All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.

Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.

As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined. (less)

The seventeen-year-old Kid doesn’t know where her parents are. They left her with her grandmother Lolly, promising to return soon. That was months ago. Now Lolly is dead and the Kid is alone, stranded ten miles off the coast of New Hampshire on tiny Swan Island. Unable to reach her parents and with no other relatives to turn to, she works for a neighbor, airbrushing the past by digitally retouching family photos and movies to earn enough money to survive.

Surrounded by the vast ocean, the Kid’s temporary home is no ordinary vacation retreat. The island is populated by an idiosyncratic group of the elderly who call themselves Wrinklies. They have left behind the youth-obsessed mainland—“the Bad Place”—to create their own alternative community, one where only the elderly are welcome. The adolescent’s presence on their island oasis unnerves the Wrinklies, turning some downright hostile. They don’t care if she has nowhere to go;they just want her gone. She is a reminder of all they’ve left behind and are determined to forget.

But the Kid isn’t the only problem threatening the insular community. Swan Island is eroding into the rising sea, threatening the Wrinklies’ very existence there. The Kid’s own house edges closer to the seaside cliffs each day. To find a way forward, she must come to terms with the realities of her life, the inevitability of loss, and an unknown future that is hers alone to embrace.

There is my August.  What have you been doing to pass the time?  What have you been reading that you loved?

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When Frankie’s mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary—just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That’s why Frankie's not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket.

Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other orphans—two young, unwanted women doing everything they can to survive.

And as the embers of the Great Depression are kindled into the fires of World War II, and the shadows of injustice, poverty, and death walk the streets in broad daylight, it will be up to Frankie to find something worth holding on to in the ruins of this shattered America—every minute of every day spent wondering if the life she's able to carve out will be enough.

All I had to hear was “the narrator is a ghost” and I was very excited about reading this book.  Laura Ruby books are always unique, but never to be missed. Thirteen Doorways was a read-in-one-sitting, give-you-a-hangover type book. Frankie, like many kids in the Depression era, was dropped off at an orphanage with her two siblings when her father simply couldn’t feed them.  An order of nuns keeps them fed, educated and sometimes beaten, but all of the girls find ways to keep their connection to who they were before the orphanage. The narrator is sometimes chaotic and often heartbreaking. For reasons unknown, she has taken an interest in Frankie and we learn about Frankie’s life at the orphanage as well as the terrible echos that other ghosts leave behind.

The two girls are separated by a generation and by class, yet their value to society is basically the same: commodification, humiliation, and dismissal.  The secrets they hold, hold them to their respective emotional prisons, but it is in Frankie’s life that we see someone who reaches for her own meaning, and repeatedly grasps only air.  The wolves, of course,  are all of the things that women and girls experience behind each desire, each phase, each doorway in their life.  It struck me how a historical novel can feel so relevant to present time. As sad as this books sounds, and there are some very sad parts, I would say that it is a story of resilience.

Laura Ruby’s writing is extraordinary in the way to draws you in and then exposes all of the small pains and big joys of life.  Thirteen Doorways has a fascinating story structure, but the historical details create a world that is often awful, but contains unimaginable hope.

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Emilia Torres has a wandering mind. It's hard for her to follow along at school, and sometimes she forgets to do what her mom or abuela asks. But she remembers what matters: a time when her family was whole and home made sense. When Dad returns from deployment, Emilia expects that her life will get back to normal. Instead, it unravels.

Dad shuts himself in the back stall of their family's auto shop to work on an old car. Emilia peeks in on him daily, mesmerized by the sparks flying from his welder. One day, Dad calls Emilia over to take a closer look. Then, he teaches her how to weld. And over time, flickers of her old dad reappear.

But as Emilia finds a way to repair the relationship with her father at home, her community ruptures with some of her classmates, like her best friend Gus, at the center of the conflict.

When I heard that the main character in Each Tiny Spark has Inattentive Type ADHD (they used to call it ADD), I knew I had to read it.  My ten year old daughter was diagnosed with ADHD last year and as we navigate the support she needs at school and at home, reading books like this with her helps all of us to see her challenges and exceptional abilities in a new light.  I asked Pablo Cartaya to write about Emilia and how he formed this wonderful character.

I draw from personal experience to build characters and the worlds my characters inhabit. Each Tiny Spark is no exception. It is a work of fiction but the main character, Emilia Torres has exceptionalities that very closely resemble my own twelve-and-a-half-year-old daughter. Chief among them is Emilia’s inattentive type ADHD. Writing a character like Emilia was a way to represent my daughter’s neurodiversity in a new and empowering way.

All too often, there is a negative stigma associated with a child diagnosed with ADHD. My daughter didn’t like being called “dumb” or “spacey” because she wasn’t paying attention to a question being asked. She has often said to me “I’m just thinking about everything around me, Papi.” Her brain is capturing more information than mine ever could. I embrace her neurodiversity and am often amazed how she harness it for positive outcomes. When my kid hones in on something she likes, there is hardly a detail she’ll miss. Emilia was written with very similar traits and her family tries to give her the same support as we do for my daughter. Sometimes it doesn’t work – like Abuela meddling around too much, or Emilia’s father not being able to communicate effectively, but for the most part, the family embraces her exceptionalities and gives her the support she needs to succeed.

I did a gargantuan amount of research for this book. And even though I know my daughter well, and have personal experience with a child with ADHD, I wanted to dig even further. The Child Mind Institute was an incredible tool for research as well as watching countless hours of videos from the American Psychological Association. I also met with my daughter’s doctor and confirmed specific jargon and proper usage of medical terms. The research was long and painstaking. Often hours of research for just a few sentences. But I believe part of a writer’s job is to do the work to bring authenticity to the world they are creating. After all, we’re writing stories that represent children’s lives. Children like my daughter.

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Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's mother as a maid. When she pictured an American life for herself, she dreamed of a life like Aimee and Amber's, the title characters of her favorite American TV show. She never pictured fleeing her home in El Salvador under threat of death and stealing across the US border as "an illegal", but after her brother is murdered and her younger sister, Gabi's, life is also placed in equal jeopardy, she has no choice, especially because she knows everything is her fault. If she had never fallen for the charms of a beautiful girl named Liliana, Pablo might still be alive, her mother wouldn't be in hiding and she and Gabi wouldn't have been caught crossing the border.

But they have been caught and their asylum request will most certainly be denied. With truly no options remaining, Marisol jumps at an unusual opportunity to stay in the United States. She's asked to become a grief keeper, taking the grief of another into her own body to save a life. It's a risky, experimental study, but if it means Marisol can keep her sister safe, she will risk anything. She just never imagined one of the risks would be falling in love, a love that may even be powerful enough to finally help her face her own crushing grief.

The Grief Keeper is a tender tale that explores the heartbreak and consequences of when both love and human beings are branded illegal.

I am so honored to have Alexandra Villasante on my blog today with a post about how her work as an artist informs her writing writing. Her beautiful book, The Grief Keeper, will be available for purchase on June 11th. After you read her post, don’t forget to enter the giveaway for a finished copy.

My dad was a painter. I remember the summer I was ten, I had to stand in a certain position, unmoving, even as my friends played outside, while Dad painted my portrait. I was frustrated (because, SUMMER! OUTSIDE! And FRIENDS!) but also fascinated by how minute strokes of paint would change the tone of the painting from one day to the next, as the oil paint slowly dried over days. It was like watching slow-motion magic.

I had some talent in painting, and I really liked art. I figured that meant I was supposed to be a painter. I went to the School of Visual arts in NYC for painting then moved to London to attend Chelsea College of Art & Design.

When I made art – whether it was a painting or an installation—I was always telling a story. For my degree piece at Chelsea, I projected a series of short, silent films I’d made – films where it’s not clear what’s going on– to a large screen, and built a booth with a microphone. I invited the viewers to come into the booth and speak into the microphone, creating the story they wanted to see in real time. It was about language and perception and about how everyone has stories in them.

I think that’s the moment that I realized that, even though I loved painting and art, I wanted to use words to make stories.

It wasn’t an easy transition. I had degrees in art, but I’d never so much as written a term paper or studied writing. I’d always read a lot, which helped. And I definitely wrote a bunch of terrible books and short stories before getting good enough to get an agent. I also read books on craft – everything from On Writing by Stephen King to Save The Cat! By Blake Snyder. I think the biggest hurdle for me was to stop feeling like I’d wasted time studying art, when I should have been studying writing and literature.

Now I see that my art education gave me invaluable tools that I can apply to writing. First and foremost. I can seriously take a critique. Nothing prepares you for publishing more than the Monday morning critique in drawing class. Thirty-plus people staring at your work (and you) and telling you, to your FACE, everything you did wrong (and right!) You either crumble and think you are worthless, or you learn to listen for what resonates and tackle your work again. Believe me, I’ve done both. But ultimately, I can ignore the sting of critique and look for the gold in the comments.

Visual art also taught me how to observe, which is the first step in world building. The writing adage of show don’t tell is paramount in painting, too. Even the most figurative, classical paintings have layers of meaning and emotion in the work. A bowl of fruit or a socialite in a pearl necklace is never just some fruit and a rich lady. There’s meaning in every layer. I try to do the same with my writing, putting meaning in every word – and using words, imagery and language to balancing dark and light, create echoes and deepen meaning.

Telling stories is about being human with each other. Whether with painting, music or words, art is only half-created by the artist. The other vital part of making art is the part that happens in the viewer, listener or reader. We make this art together, no matter what medium we use.

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Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future.

Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into tears when they recognize her. Abbi has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11. On that fateful day, she was captured in what became an iconic photograph: in the picture, Abbi (aka "Baby Hope") wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing.

Now, fifteen years later, Abbi is desperate for anonymity and decides to spend the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a counselor at Knights Day Camp two towns away. She's psyched for eight weeks in the company of four-year-olds, none of whom have ever heard of Baby Hope.

Too bad Noah Stern, whose own world was irrevocably shattered on that terrible day, has a similar summer plan. Noah believes his meeting Baby Hope is fate. Abbi is sure it's a disaster. Soon, though, the two team up to ask difficult questions about the history behind the Baby Hope photo. But is either of them ready to hear the answers?

September 11th has been written about in YA before, but I really loved how it was examined in Hope and Other Punchlines.  I was twenty -five and teaching elementary school on that terrible day and I remember very well the feeling that the world we live in was forever changed for the kids who looked at me with hopeful, then scared, faces.  There were so many searing images that came from that day, and this plot is brilliant.  I always wonder what happened to the people in these photos and so Abbi’s experience seems very real.  It was also especially interesting since Abbi has no memory of the event that made her the focus of so many of the feelings that people had about that day.  Noah, on the other hand, has his own reasons for searching for answers related to September 11th.  I have always been someone who loves her geeky guys and Noah is a wonderful, well-rounded character who is also a fabulous book boyfriend.

This book is more emotionally intense than Buxbaum’s other books, but whatever she poured into this story was well worth it.  Grief is intensely private, yet with this event, it became public.  The entire nation was grieving in some way. Some were grieving loved ones, but we were all grieving the loss of a feeling of safety. I would say this is especially true for those who were young when this happened.  There are moments of humor that save Hope and Other Punchlines from making you crawl under your bed and stay there. It was humor that seemed real because the world really does go on, whether you want it to or not and there are always opportunities to find humor, dark as it may be.  Abbi and Noah’s connection to the photograph and the events of that day, along with supporting characters that became very dear to me as a reader, made Hope and Other Punchlines a book that took me by surprise, a bit.  Julie Buxbaum has established herself as one of my favorite authors of contemporary YA and I think this book woudl be great for both adults and teens.

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Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways.

Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya—but neither wants to be.

War is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the king on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds—and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine.

Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, We Hunt the Flame is a gripping debut of discovery, conquering fear, and taking identity into your own hands.

I have been very, very excited about this book for a long time and it did not disappoint! Just reading the plot on the jacket copy will draw you in, I promise, and though it is a world that is not safe and is full of danger, you will still want to remain. We Hunt the Flame did a really great job of giving each character a real identity and fleshing out who they were.  Zafira, brave and determined, is also so emotionally vulnerable it hurt sometimes.  Of course, Nasir tugged at my heart, as well, with a father who woudl not tolerate (or show) compassion. As far as romance goes, this is an excellent slow burn.  It also has the hate-to-love trope, which is real catnip for many readers (like me) and combined, these two elements go really well together.  I also liked the way it allowed the reader to really get to know Zafira and Nasir as separate people. That is the upside to the slow burn, and it is a good one in this case.

Both main characters are trying to find the same item, which gives the book a very tense timeline as well as a foundation for excellent action and, frankly, some unexpected turns. Those twists and turns really aided the pacing, which never seemed to slow down or become mired in its own stories, which sometimes happens in fantasies.  While the world building and the beautiful imagery of the writing enhanced the story, it never became more important than the characters and their flawed and complicated lives.  Zafira must pretend to be a boy in order to feed her people and the idea that women must be secondary is addressed in a way that felt meaningful to me, as a reader.  The writing was beautiful and descriptive, as well.  I saw someone mention that this woudl be good for fans of VE Schwab and Laini Taylor, and I can say that this writing has that same magical feel to it. Overall, We Hunt The Flame lived up to he hype for me and I can’t wait for book two!

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The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, and First-Class Malcolm. These are the five teenagers lost in the Hemmings family's maze of tangled secrets. Only a generation removed from being simple Pennsylvania potato farmers, Gottfried and Marla Hemmings managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now sit atop a seven-figure bank account, wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult children or their teenage grand children.

"Because we want them to thrive," Marla always says.

What does thriving look like? Like carrying a snow shovel everywhere. Like selling pot at the Arby's drive-thru window. Like a first class ticket to Jamiaca between cancer treatments. Like a flea-circus in a doublewide. Like the GPS coordinates to a mound of dirt in a New Jersey forest.

As the rot just beneath the surface of the Hemmings precious white suburban respectability begins to spread, the far flung grand children gradually find their ways back to each other, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name.

I haven’t read all of A.S. King’s books, but I have read enough to see that although they are all very different, there is a similar feel to then, as well.  I expect to feel the story deeply, and with Dig that was certainly the case. It’s a dark book, overall, and a story that reaches across generations and kind of shows you the worst of people.  However, it is done is such a way that even though you really hate some of the characters, you really can’t look away, either.  It was a bit of a roller coaster and I felt a little drained after I read and it stayed with me for days, which is always the sign of a good book.

Dig makes you ask a lot of questions and it shines a light on things like white privilege, racism, and abuse.  People suffer because their parents suffered and their parents suffered. I will say that it was a little confusing at times, but the story rights itself by the end and is even, dare I say, hopeful.  It’s a story that’s hard to explain except to say that, in the end, we are all trying to dig out of the shit that our families, ancestors, and even society puts on us.  But it’s possible to reach air and the kids are going to save us all.

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A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.

A prince in danger must decide who to trust.

A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings.

Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.

In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. Wicked Saints is the thrilling start to Emily A. Duncan’s devastatingly Gothic Something Dark and Holy trilogy.

I’m not sure what I was expecting from Wicked Saints, but I will say that I very much enjoyed this story!  I have a lot to say, but I really don’t want to ruin it, so I’ll try to hit the high points and hopefully convince you to pick it up.  The pacing was good, the world beautifully built, and the action started right away.  It felt good to dig in to a fantasy and since I like books with a slightly dark side, this fit the bill, although if I’m bring honest, it was very dark, at times.  I know that because it has a Russian influence it will draw comparison’s to the Grisha series, but I think that’s unfair.  Wicked Saints tells its own story and it is one that I had a hard time putting down.

While the compelling and descriptive story draws you in, I was really drawn to the the questions of faith and power and how the two work together and can corrupt the other.  It also showed the truly destructive power of war, especially when the war is one religion against another. The beautiful and descriptive writing along with a little humor and loyal friends made for a very good (and very bloody) story.  I loved the way that Nadya was able to communicate with all of the different gods and goddesses, which was both interesting and entertaining. The world was harrowing, to put it lightly, but even when it got really dark, I couldn’t stop reading.  Wicked Saints did a good job of living up to the hype and I really think that this is the beginning of a great series.

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