Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1) by Tade Thompson
“She pours two black coffees into identical mugs that sport yellow smiley faces with a linear red smudge at the eleven o’clock position.“
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I know that one! Read the comic and saw the movie…

Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
Full review of that one is here… Not really a winner for me. I might have liked the movie a little better.
I came past other things that hinted at something. Some of them I recognized, others I didn‘t. Thompson added quite a few goodies like that…