"Assassin of Reality" by Marina Dyachenko & Sergey Dyachenko

Translated from Russian into English by Julia Meitov Hersey. This is the second book in the Vita Nostra trilogy, it will make zero sense if you haven't read the first book in the series. For me it's a reread, preparing for my upcoming first read of the third book. Not much can be said about this novel without giving away any spoilers for the previous book. If you were wondering about the ending in Vita Nostra, no worries, it will get explained in this follow-up (eventually, slowly). The way reality gets twisted, the unexpected turns the story takes, the way the reader is thrown into the deep end -it's exactly what I love in my reading. On my first read I felt very ambivalent about the introduction of two certain characters, but this second time around I can appreciate it a lot more. The unease that comes with them is what makes their presence so fitting. More than the first book, this one is about whether one's perceived fate should be accepted or refused. Can things be changed within…

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