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Review: Cast in Firelight by Dana Swift
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Dana Swift presents the first installment in the Wickery series, Cast in Firelight. Readers follow Adraa, the eldest born daughter of the raja and rani of Bedwar. In Wickery, the gods bless some people with elemental…
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Review: The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher
**I was provided an electronic copy of this book from the publishers through NetGalley post-publication in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars T. Kingfisher’s most recent novel, The Hollow Places, is a modern horror in the form of a portal fantasy inspired by Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows. Readers follow Kara who is recently divorced and…
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Review: The Fires of Vengeance by Evan Winter
**spoiler alert** **I was provided a physical ARC by the publisher in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Evan Winter returns to The Burning series with his newest installment, The Fires of Vengeance. Readers continue to follow Tau on his quest for vengeance against those responsible for the death of his father. This book…
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Review: Girl Haven by Lilah Sturges
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Lilah Sturges returns with her newest work, Girl Haven. Ash’s mother wrote about a fantasy world called Koretris where only female creatures live and only female travelers can pass through. When Ash and his friends (Eleanor, Junebug,…
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Review: Secrets of Camp Whatever Vol 1 by Chris Grine
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating 4.5 Chris Grine introduces a fun middle grade graphic novel surrounding a sleepaway camp and the mystical creatures of the island with the first volume of Secrets of Camp Whatever. Readers follow a group of children who…
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Review: Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash by Yahtzee Croshaw
**I was provided a digital ARC from the publisher in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Jacques McKeown returns in Yahtzee Croshaw’s sequel to Will Save the Galaxy for Food, the aptly named Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash. Our main character is a star pilot who has been through many names and identities, but…
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Review: Delicates by Brenna Thummler
**spoiler alert** **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Brenna Thummler returns to the world of Sheets with its sequel, Delicates. Readers continue to follow Marjorie as she enters the eighth grade and joins student council. Wendell the ghost struggles with feeling left behind…
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Review: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Rebecca Roanhorse begins a new epic fantasy series with Black Sun. The series is inspired in part by the mythology, lore, and legends of the pre-Columbian Americas. Riddled with prophecy, betrayal, magic, and politics, Black Sun…
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Review: Ink by Jonathan Maberry
**I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Jonathan Maberry’s newest work, Ink, is a supernatural horror story that surrounds something strange happening in Pine Deep, PA. Pine Deep has always been a strange town with weird things happening. But now, people in the…
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Review: Kink: Stories by RO Kwon et al
*I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars RO Kwon and Garth Greenwell compile a series of short literary fiction stories from various authors to convey the spectrum of kink, love, and desire. As always, with anthologies, certain stories resonate more than others for each…
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