Tag: 3.5 stars
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Review: The Monstrous Dreams of Mr Providence by Daria Schmitt
**I was provided an electronic ARC via the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Daria Schmitt presents an adult graphic novel inspired by HP Lovecraft’s “The Strange House High in the Mist” with The Strange Dreams of Mr Providence. Readers follow Providence in his role as caretaker of a park…
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Review: Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
*I received an ALC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Sarah Gailey returns with a haunted house thriller that is perfect for summer. When Vera returns home to assist her dying mother, she must face the things that happened when she lived in the home with her serial…
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Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating : 3.5 Blake Crouch returns with another scifi thriller, Upgrade. Readers follow Logan, a geneticist by education in a near-future where no private industry geneticists are allowed. Logan’s mother was a geneticist as well, and her actions…
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Review: Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief by Maurice Leblanc
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual Rating: 3.5 Maurice Leblanc’s classic stories of Arsene Lupin Gentleman Thief are refreshed in this new collection accompanied by illustrations from Vincent Mallie. Editor Mike Kennedy compiled the collection. I was already familiar with Maurice Leblanc’s stories involving…
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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: Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Marie Rutkoski’s adult debut, Real Easy, delves into the backstage of a strip club. The story is told in multiple perspectives and discusses the day to day happenings of the club as well as an ongoing double…
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Review: Cold the Night Fast the Wolves by Meg Long
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Meg Long’s Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves follows the story of Sena. Sena has made her way in the world alone since the death of her mothers in what amounts to the biggest sled dog…
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Review: Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente
**I was provided an audio galley of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Comfort Me With Apples is Catherynne M Valente’s newest novella that seems to defy genre. There is a bit of horror, a bit of fabulism, and a literary sort of vibe all wrapped…
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Review: Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Wab Kinew brings a young adult light scifi with Walking in Two Worlds. Readers follow Bugz, a power player in a digital world who has a lot of self-doubt in the real world. Kinew draws upon Anishinaabe…
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Review: The Past is Red by Catherynne M Valente
**I was provided an audiobook ARC from the publisher through NetGalley.** Actual rating: 3.5 Catherynne Valente reworks the short story “The Future Is Blue” into the novella The Past is Red. Valente lends her unique style and imagination to climate science fiction with this newest work. Tetley lives in Garbagetown, a city that floats along…
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