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Review: The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy
3 stars ** I was provided an electronic ARC of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.** Lauren Mansy’s novel, The Memory Thief, follows a teenaged girl, Julietta, in a world where memories are used as currency. Memories can be traded, stolen, sold, and more. The Gifted have varying…
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Review: The Sin Soldiers by Tracy Auerbach
4 stars ** I was provided an electronic ARC of this book by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** In The Sin Soldiers, author Tracy Auerbach, utilizes her background as a science teacher to bring the dystopian science fiction tale to life. The world that Auerbach creates is one in which crystals…
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Review: A Drop of Magic by LR Braden
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.** LR Braden’s debut novel, A Drop of Magic, is part murder mystery, part preternatural fantasy, and one solid good time. The reader follows the perspective of metalsmith Alex Blackwood as she learns about…
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Review: Cursed by Thomas Wheeler
** I was provided an electronic ARC of this book by publisher, Simon & Schuster, through NetGalley in return for an honest review.** Actual rating: 2.5 stars The team of Frank Miller and Thomas Wheeler create a story in “Cursed” where Arthurian legend is retold with sixteen-year-old Nimue in possession of the Sword of Power.…
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Review: All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
3 stars This book is actually difficult for me to review because I have such mixed feelings about it. A majority of my mixed feelings about it likely come from my existing thoughts about Maggie Stiefvater as a writer. Let me start off by saying that I’ve read the Raven Cycle and The Scorpio Races.…
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Review: Critique of Criminal Reason by Michael Gregorio
4 stars Critique of Criminal Reason is certainly what it promised to be- a historical fiction detective novel. Michael Gregorio cleverly utilized a historical background of Napoleonic era Prussia combined with the inspiration of the philosophies of Immanuel Kant to form the backbone of the story. Add in one young investigative magistrate in Hanno Stiffeniis…
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Review: Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
5 stars Like the rose hips in Esperanza’s father’s garden, this book carries with it the memories and love of those who came before it. Pam Muñoz Ryan has achieved a novel based on stories told to her by her grandmother who is the original Esperanza Ortega. Muñoz Ryan achieved a fictional recreation of what…
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Review: Irenicon by Aidan Harte
4 stars Ohhh this book. First, let me say that I absolutely enjoyed reading Irenicon. After saying that, let me begin to unpack this whole situation. This book was slow to get through for me, but that is because the entire first section of the book is absolutely and beautifully filled with world-building. Harte has…
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Review: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
4 stars Jonathan Stroud has done it again. I was first introduced to Stroud, like most, through his Bartimaeus books. I loved Stroud’s accessible and witty flair to writing then, and I still love it now. Stroud creates an additional alternative modern London with the Lockwood & Co series. “The Problem”, as the paranormal activity…
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Review: Master’s Boys 1-7 by Patricia Logan
3 stars Patricia Logan has an apparent respect for the BDSM community that comes across in her explanations and general presentation of the lifestyle in her Master’s Boys series. This, in itself, is something that I truly appreciate, even if I do not necessarily agree with all aspects of the portrayal in her series. Sometimes…
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