I cannot begin to express just how much I fucking adored this book! I’m not exaggerating when I say that I felt every word within these pages. He controls many people as pawns in his game of chess. He dresses like a Ray Bradbury character and is just as intriguing as one. He was created by Asphodel Baker, the greatest alchemist of her time. Their lives intersect throughout the years, until they eventually meet at the Berkeley campus. They find out that they were both part of closed adoptions. Quantum entangled… creations, if you will. They begin to help each other out with their respective classes that they have difficulty in. One day while Roger is working on a multiplication worksheet, he hears a voice from out of nowhere.

“His genius and hers were never the same.” She has trouble with spelling and isn’t much into reading. She’s a brilliant mathematician and idolizes Ian Malcolm.

He struggles with math, however (relatable af!).ĭodger Cheswich lives in California. he loves language with everything that he has. Middlegame is about two undeniably gifted children. It felt like an extension of the Wayward Children universe, yet something entirely all it’s own and I AM HERE ALL DAMN DAY FOR IT!!! This was one of my most anticipated reads of 2019 and HOLY FORKING SHIRTBALLS!!! It completely blew me away. OH HEY MIDDLEGAME!! Seanan McGuire is a glorious weaver of words and we are so incredibly lucky to have her talent out there for us all to absorb. Just when this plot seems the most interesting, captivating, brutal. Just when it seems like this character is the most complex. Just when I think I’ve read the best thing she has ever written. Being such a huge fan of McGuire’s, you would think I would learn my lesson and stop finding myself surprised after each book. There is just so much within! More than you could ever imagine. Seanan McGuire’s stories are like the Tardis. “Words can be whispered bullet-quick when no one’s looking, and words don’t leave blood or bruises behind.

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