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Review: Vows of Empire by Emily Skrutskie
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Emily Skrutskie completes the Bloodright Trilogy with Vows of Empire. This book picks up shortly after the cliffhanger ending of book two, and any real discussion of the plot will undoubtedly spoil the first two books. Suffice…
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Review: Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Kathryn Harlan presents Fruiting Bodies, a short story anthology that seems to defy any genre other than to classify it as speculative. There are some stories than lean into scifi, fantasy, or horror, but there is also…
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Review: Taproot by Keezy Young
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 4.5 stars Keezy Young’s award-winning debut queer YA graphic novel Taproot receives a new edition through Oni Press. Taproot follows Hamal, a gardener who can see ghosts. Hamal has always seen ghosts, but has recently become friends…
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Review: Magical Rescue Vets Blaze the Phoenix by Melody Lockhart
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Melody Lockhart returns with the next installment in Magical Rescue Vets, Blaze the Phoenix. Kat and Rosie are determined to continue to be helpful to the vets, but Rosie seems to think that she has done a…
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Review: Sorceline by Sylvia Douyé
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Sylvia Douyé presents Sorceline Volume 1, an upper middle grade fantasy graphic novel following the titular Sorceline. Sorceline finds herself in a magical school for cryptozoology where she and her fellow students aim to learn about magical creatures and…
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Review: Batter Royale by Leisl Adams
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Leisl Adams debuts with a contemporary graphic novel, Batter Royale. Marketed as Check, Please! meets The Great British Bake Off, readers follow Fred and Rose as they compete on a reality cooking show. Fred wants the prize…
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Review: Yagi the Bookshop Goat by Fumi Furukawa
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Fumi Furukawa’s Yagi the Bookshop Goat is a sweet and spicy yaoi manga intended for adults. Yagi is a goat who loves books and desperately wants to work in a bookshop. Since Yagi is a goat, he…
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Review: Jackals Wild by Abby Kaitz
**I was provided an electronic ARC through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Abby Kaitz presents Jackals Wild, a queer new adult contemporary romance. College mathematician Adam is all about making sure he is acing his classes and putting in the work to get there. Adam is thrown off by his annoyingly attractive…
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Review: The Middling Affliction by Alex Shvartsman
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Alex Shvartsman presents The Middling Affliction, the first in a new urban fantasy series set in New York. The series follows Conrad Brent, a middling, who is able to see magic, but cannot use magic himself…
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Review: The City of Dusk by Tara Sim
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Tara Sim returns with the ambitious first book of an epic fantasy series, The City of Dusk. Sim has created a world of multiple coinciding realms and those realms are accompanied by an incredible amount of species,…
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