Book Review: The Scarlet Letter

In school, I read two Nathaniel Hawthorne works: the novel The House of the Seven Gables and the short story Rappacini's Daughter. Neither made me a fan of him, but I did see interesting elements in them. They had a way of walking the line between mere drama and fantasy. When I saw a small copy of TSL on a giveaway shelf and vaguely recalled my sister having been assigned it (later learning that both our parents had as well), I decided to give it a try.

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My next reading is Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, a purer fantasy. So far, it's kinda like The Way of Shadows.