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The author travels all over the world, chasing the (hi)stories of various jewels.

A very well structured book. Each jewel gets its own section, and we pursue it from the ancient times to the modern, and from the jeweler to the mines it was dug up in (the author visits those mines, and often tries mining herself). It‘s fascinating, coherent, and flows really well.

5/5

This was a very realistic portrait of two families each dealing with their own and their shared past. It was also a story of a great love and mental illness. These two subjects lingered througout each storyline, and was worked out very well. I was happy with the way it ended but don‘t think it‘ll stay with me for long.

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Not in the Litsy database. This is a book published by the publisher l work for. The author is an opera singer. Her protagonist is an opera siger too.
While in Lipzig for a gig, Jessica Palm duscovers that three years ago a woman with her same name died in the theatre where she works.
She starts to wonder about it.

March was an excellent reading month! My favorites were Crooked Kingdom and The Book of Dust, both ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️; and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the adventures of Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson! Overall not a bad book in the bunch📚

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