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On the Calculation of Volume IV

By: Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith - translator, Jennifer Russell - translator
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
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Tara Selter's world is expanding.

'A literary phenomenon nearly 40 years in the making.' The Cut
'A classic in the making.' Chetna Maroo
'Startling.' New Yorker
'Absolutely wonderful.' Lauren Groff

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i loved how utterly immersive this is. recommended byba friend, cant wait for book V

gripping

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Tara and her friends have learnt a lot more about their time loop. If they eat something, it's not back on the shelf 'next day', so shops run out and they have been very careful to try and avoid depletion of their local environment.
There's a big group (or a number of groups) who are all in contact we each other. They are trying to plan what to do in their weird time-looped world.
Most of they seem to have given up hope of a return to normal time

BUT.... THE ENDING!!! another cliff hanger. And now I have to wait for the next one to be published in English. (I tried to find a summary in Danish, but no luck.)

Oh boy do I NEED the next book!

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I think only the first book was fully thought out. Every book afterwards seems to have been thinly conceived and been forced to cash in on short-term hype. Books II, III and IV literally cover the same half baked, sophomoric ideas over and over again both within each book and across the whole series. Disappointing given that the series had such a compelling start.

Cash grab

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This series of books are all the same mundane and even a little boring. It’s the same day again and again and again and yet she will just drop a bomb at the end of every book that will give you just enough hope and intrigue to want to read the next book. While I don’t love this series I’m so interested in what will happen next.

I don’t know how she does it

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