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Shift Book Review: The Prequel That Makes Wool Even More Devastating
Shift is a prequel, and it answers the question you've been asking since you finished Wool: how did this happen? Who built the silos? Why? The answers are worse than you imagined.
Howey takes us back to before the silos, following Congressman Donald Keene, who is unknowingly recruited to help design the underground structures as part of a classified project. Donald thinks he's designing a building. He's designing a tomb. The people behind the project — and I won't spoil wh

Luke Stoffel
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Iron Gold Book Review: Pierce Brown Grew Up and Took His Universe With Him
Iron Gold expands the Red Rising universe with multiple POVs and post-revolution politics. Darker, more complex, and more ambitious. Four stars. Book Review.

Luke Stoffel
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Red, White & Royal Blue Book Review: The Queer Romance That Made Me Believe in Politics Again
"Red, White & Royal Blue" Book Review: I was not expecting this book to matter to me as much as it did. I picked it up thinking it would be a fun, frothy enemies-to-lovers romance between the First Son of the United States and the Prince of Wales, and it is that — it absolutely is that — but Casey McQuiston also wrote something that sneaks up on you and becomes genuinely moving in ways that the premise doesn't advertise.

Luke Stoffel
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Atlas Shrugged Book Review: The 1,168-Page Novel That Half the World Worships and Half the World Hates
I'm going to review Atlas Shrugged as a novel, not as a philosophy textbook, because that's what it is — a novel — and it deserves to be engaged with on those terms even if the philosophy has consumed every conversation about it for sixty years. Book Review.

Luke Stoffel
3 min read
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