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  4/5 stars   *Spoiler alert!* People We Meet on Vacation is a very heart-rending novel, yet my feelings on it were mixed. I rounded up my rating from an initial 3.5/5 stars to 4 stars because of the sheer poignancy of it, and yet I found myself exasperated by the level of miscommunication between the main characters. Even if this miscommunication was an intentional part of the narrative, I found it hard at times to suspend my disbelief. But I digress, because I ended up really liking the pairing of Alex and Poppy.     Also , apparently, I’m a sucker for the best-friends-to-lovers trope, especially combined with the opposites-attract trope. Alex and Poppy are as different as can be. While Poppy is on the extroverted side, enjoying travel and meeting new people, Alex is more of a buttoned-up introvert who’d rather be reading. They meet in college as freshmen and form an unexpectedly deep bond, going on vacations whenever they can, between Poppy’s odd jobs and Ale...

4/5 stars   *Spoiler alert!*   It’s always nice to revisit the Cosmere. The Sunlit Man is the fourth of Brandon Sanderson’s secret novel project now released publicly. While I enjoyed Tress and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter more, personally, I still enjoyed this adventure of a man on the run—Nomad, an apt name—hopping between worlds in the Cosmere. Who happens to get stuck in a place where the sun is deadly and civilization is constantly on the move around the very small planet, known as Canticle .     In trying to get his bearings and acquire enough power to jump between worlds again—to evade his pursuers, the Night Brigade—Nomad finds himself mixed up in a rebellion against a tyrant known as the Cinder King.     “This man might not be brilliant or clever, though he'd think himself both. Truth was, he didn't need either to be dangerous. Because he had power and power - wielded by a fool - could crush anyone, smart or not.”       The C...