This book is a book about what it takes to flee your home country, and risk your life as a refugee in Europe.

This book has a romance subplot, but it's going to gut you beyond that. As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow (2022) by Zoulfa Katouh. I have never read anything as cataclysmic in my life, and it adds depth knowing that it was based on real events.Ĥ. This book is at its happiest in its earliest pages because this is a story about the war between life and death, and 'the war is always going badly.' It's definitively not for the lighthearted, but if you read it and reach chapter 23, I will be where I rest my case for the HAUNTING this book does in my life. It reads like a push and pull of demands and dreams as it lingers on a constant attempt at quenching some inert hunger it can never fulfill. It builds on the tale, The Death of Koschei the Deathless, also known as Maria Morevna. This book is an oddity, and for half the time I had no idea what was going on but I loved it. The author used the stakes at play so well, it sums itself up with the line: 'There's always more to take.'ģ. The first book wasn't lit, but this one got me so bad. This is the second book in The Remnant Chronicles. This book is long, but the story is so stuck with me.

It takes you across Istanbul, Budapest, and Eastern Europe in what feels like a travel journal. It is a travel story narrated by an unnamed female, main character as they try to unravel the truth behind her fathers strange letters, and several generations of historians that have hunted for the truth about Vlad the Impaler (or Dracula). The Historian (2005) by Elizabeth Costova.

Ihana meri by Kira Poutanen