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Finished: The Secret Commonwealth

I was really looking forward to this. It deals with some really interesting ideas - most notably the battle between rationality and missing out on the magic of life. However, it also deals with a bunch of modern real issues (such as the refugee crisis, and the turmoil in parts of the middle east) without a huge amount of sensitivity. It also ends in quite an unsatisfactory manner.

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