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I couldn't decide between the two, so it's a #SundaySentence double-shot from Amal El-Mohtar's The River Has Roots.

'Grammar and grammarians are constables, sternly watching while you split infinitives, narrowing their eyes at spliced commas while smacking semi-coloned truncheons against their […]

The River Has Roots The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death.

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Review by maysmanyreads - The River Has Roots Straight away, I was drawn in by El-Mohtar’s evident love for the written word. The magic syst...

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117th book of 2025

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This week's #LiteraryHypePodcast features @amalelmohtar.com as we talk about #TheRiverHasRoots and #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar, plus some fun tangents because that's how we roll. This was such a deligtful time and I hope y'all enjoy it. (also available on all podcast platforms)

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Just finished #theriverhasroots by @amalelmohtar.com hauntingly beautiful & sad but ultimately hopeful and gorgeously describes how folklore bumps up against “real life” a great companion to #southofmidnight & I’d devour a standalone story about Agnes #booksky

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Dark Brown wooden floorboard with Amal El-Mohtar’s book The river has roots and a colorful sticker and boekenlegger from Waltersbookshop.nl Bookcover: Top part: the river Middle part: image of 3 flowers, pink, purple and red, placed inside a curvy symbolic representation of a river Bottom part: has roots Bestselling author Amal el-mohtar

Even geleden kreeg ik n lief bericht van een vriend. Er lag een cadeautje voor me bij Walter’s Bookshop voor o.a. onze vriendschap. Het was @amalelmohtar.com prachtige #TheRiverHasRoots Mooi om het uit te lezen on The 1st day of pridemonth. Thank you Amal for this beautiful story 💜 #MeerMooieDingen

Right - 100 books read this year and these are the second round of top 5s.

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#BloodOverBrightHaven #Rapture #TheRiverHasRoots #UponAStarlitTide #Flux #TBR #BookSky

and after the book fair, I promptly went to my library to pick up some of the most exciting holds ever #thesirens by @emiliahart.bsky.social #mutualinterest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith #hungerstone by @katalicedunn.bsky.social and #theriverhasroots by @amalelmohtar.com

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Cover of book The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

An amazing read! I highly recommend it. #amalelmohtar #theriverhasroots #fiction

The River Has Roots The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar Esther and Ysabel are sisters who help tend the willows along the magic River Liss. Their neighbor wants to marry Esther to merger the families’ properties bu…

I knew #TheRiverHasRoots was going to be good, but I didn’t expect to get chills!

The River Has Roots is my first 5⭐️ read this year. A quick novella, but worth every single beautifully placed word. I'd read it again and again.

Impeccable.

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this. Death of the Author and The River Has Roots, drastically different reads, have overloaded me (complimentary)
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A friend wielded her bad influence and convinced me to “browse” a bookstore. So glad I did. Bought and read @amalelmohtar.com’s #TheRiverHasRoots today - and what a wonderful piece of speculative fantasy. The prose is whimsical, sharp, with passages just begging to be read aloud. Loved it. #BookSky

finished The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com and flipped back to pg 1 immediately and savored it again. last night went and snagged the audio version read by Gem Carmella and i may well expire from the compounded joys #TheRiverHasRoots

i recall vividly the feral, longing, wildly loving review of This Is How You Lose The Time War and i need to tell @amalelmohtar.com that another such review is bubbling up in me over The River Has Roots #TheRiverHasRoots

#TheRiverHasRoots by #AmalElMohtar is featured in this week's #NewBooks haul! watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/7XQkmwrdyoY and buy the books here: bookshop.org/lists/n...
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Absolutely devoured this in one sitting and have been staring into the distance since. Favorite book of the year, calling it now. So excited to see her in Cincinnati!!! #theriverhasroots

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar. Pink flowers with a wavy design moving through it.

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar.

Lyrical, Beautiful, Magical. Both the book and audiobook are STUNNING. A faery tale I want to read over and over.

Thank you @tordotcom.bsky.social for the advanced copy!

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Nature's revenge! (or blessing) Here are a couple titles we received in-office recently! #TheyBloomAtNight & #TheRiverHasRoots
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