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Church of Marvels, by Leslie Parry

Church of Marvels: A Novel - Leslie Parry

The prologue of Leslie Parry’s Church of Marvels might lead you to think that it’s the story of Belle Church, a sword-swallower and contortionist. (Readers who cheat and jump to the end of the book and scope out of the epilogue will end up thinking the same.) In reality, Church of Marvels is about five people whose lives collide in the most astonishing and horrific ways. The five people couldn’t have known that their choices would throw them together or cost so much pain, but by the end, one can’t help but wonder if it was all supposed to work out this way...

 

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.