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Assassin of Reality
Assassin of Reality: A Novel | Marina & Sergey Dyachenko
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The eagerly anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed Vita Nostra takes readers to the next stage in Sasha Samokhinas journey in a richly imagined world of dark academia in which grammar is magicand not all magic is good. In Vita Nostra, Sasha Samokhina, a third-year student at the Institute of Special Technologies, was in the middle of taking the final exam that would transform her into a part of the Great Speech. After defying her teachers expectations, Sasha emerges from the exam as Password, a unique and powerful part of speech. Accomplished and ready to embrace her new role, she soon learns her powers threaten the old world, and despite her hard work, Sasha is set to fail. However, Farit Kozhennikov, Sashas dark mentor, finds a way to bring her out of the oblivion and back to the Institute for his own selfish purposes. Subsequently, Sasha must correct her mistakes before she is allowed to graduate and is forced to do what few are asked and even less achieve: to succeed and reverberatebecoming a part of the Great Speech and being one of the special few who dictate reality. If she fails, she faces a fate far worse than death: the choice is hers. Years have passed around the Instituteand the numerous realities that have spread from Sashas first failurebut it is only her fourth year of learning what role she will play in shaping the world. Her teachers despise and fear her, her classmates distrust her, and a growing lovefor a young pilot with no affiliation to the schoolis fraught because a relationship means leverage, and Farit wont hesitate to use it against her. Planes crash all the time. Which means Sasha needs to rewrite the world so that cant happen...or fail for good.
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saritaroth
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Technically, this is the first line of the first chapter, not the prologue, but… And I know it‘s late, but…
“Alexandra woke up a split second after her dark blue Skoda crossed the center line and drifted into the oncoming traffic.”

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currentlyreadinginCO
Assassin of Reality: A Novel | Marina & Sergey Dyachenko
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I really love these dark, beautiful books, but I suppose that it doesn't matter as it doesn't look like we will be getting the rest of the series....

BookBr Nooooo really? 😭 8mo
currentlyreadinginCO I'm not sure! Apparently the third book was supposed to be published in Russian this year and later translated, but one of the authors unfortunately died and now it's on hold indefinitely @BookBr 8mo
BookBr @currentlyreadinginCO that‘s so sad, I had no idea! 8mo
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underground_bks
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This sequel to the mind-bending Eastern European dark academia fantasy Vita Nostra is a bit of a slog, but I was glad for the chance to immerse myself again in the world of Sasha Samokhina, the Institute of Special Technologies, and the Great Speech. There really is no stranger linguistic magic system or higher philosophical stakes than in this series—I‘m hoping this installment just suffered from Middle Book Syndrome.

BookBr Ohhhh I LOVED Vita Nostra, so this is disappointing 😣 14mo
underground_bks @BookBr here‘s hoping we get a third book that‘s as amazing as the first! 14mo
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The first book in the Vita Nostra series was one of the absolute best books I read this year and this was a very creditable and enjoyable follow up! It lacked some of the mystery of not knowing what was going on at the university at all that we had in the first book but I absolutely loved this book as well. The world building is so rich and odd it‘s just like nothing else.

#scarathlon #skeletoncrew

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