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V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Book Review

Addie LaRue lives in seventeen hundreds’ France, with a life all planned out. Grow up, marry, raise children, die. Not many people in her village even dream of seeing a city, let alone Paris, or the world. But Addie wants to live. She wants to discover the world, she wants to see palaces and beaches and exotic animals, something both her parents find mad and dangerous. When she is forced into a marriage she does not want, she does the one thing she is told never to do. She prays to the gods who answer after dark.
She makes the darkness an offer. she will give it her soul in return for time and freedom. But he refuses. Every deal needs a deadline. So she makes one. She tells him he can have her soul when she…

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Final Girls Book Review

Quincy is a final girl. She is the only survivor of a mass murderer who killed all her friends during their stay in a cabin in the woods. In a form of self-preservation, her memories of that night were blocked. She remembers going to the cabin and spending the day with her friends, she remembers meeting him, and then she remembers running to the road and to the cop who shot the killer and saved her life.

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Maybe Vs May Be

“Maybe” and “may be”. Have you ever been confused by these two similar-looking phrases?
Although they may look similar, they have different meanings and uses in English.

1. “Maybe” (Adverb):
“Maybe” in one word is an adverb that means “perhaps” or “possibly.”
Here are a couple of examples of sentences using “maybe”:
  – Maybe we can go to the park tomorrow. (Perhaps we can go to the park tomorrow.)
  – I’m not sure, but maybe it will rain later. (I’m not sur; but it is possible it will rain later.)

2. “May Be” (Verb Phrase):
“May be” is a verb phrase consisting of the modal verb “may” and the verb “be.”
It is used to indicate possibility or permission.
Here are a couple of examples using “may be”:
  – She may be late for the meeting (indicating possibility).
  – You may be allowed to leave early (indicating permission).

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