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Get ready to laugh out loud, cry in public, and cheer on the villains as Brennan smashes through tropes with witty, wild glee in this delicious, subversive treat of a book'\u003cbr\u003e  Leigh Bardugo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'The compulsion Brennan casts over her readers is unholy. 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