Tag: 3.5 stars
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Review: Goblin by Josh Malerman
**I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Josh Malerman returns with his newest novel, Goblin. The novel is composed of six intertwining stories of characters that all live in the city of Goblin, a city with a rich and twisted history full…
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Review: The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 CJ Tudor returns with her newest thriller The Burning Girls. Jack is a vicar who has had recent tragedy in her chapel, so there is a chance for a fresh start with reassignment to a small…
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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 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: 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: Fragile Remedy by Maria Ingranda Mora
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Maria Ingrande Mora’s Fragile Remedy is part dystopian, part scifi, all unrepentantly queer. Gathos City was ravaged by a lung rot disease which led to the development of GEMs- Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogates. The GEMs provided…
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Review: Mayhem by Estelle Laure
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Estelle Laure’s Mayhem follows the titular character as she navigates the difficulties of her life, the importance of family and home, and perhaps the type of magic that has persisted through the generations. Part hard-hitting contemporary,…
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Review: Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Melissa Bashardoust brings Girl, Serpent, Thorn, a young adult fantasy inspired by Persian mythology and folklore. Readers follow Soraya, a princess cursed to have poisonous skin. When Soraya is no longer content to be hidden away…
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Review: All the King’s Traitors by Keylin Rivers
**I was provided an electronic copy through NetGalley from the publisher in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Keylin Rivers brings forward All the King’s Traitors, a YA fantasy centered around a rocky political climate and magical stones which grant the holders powers. The journey is told through following multiple perspectives of characters that…
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Review: The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Luke Arnold, renowned actor, adds author to his repertoire with his debut fantasy novel, The Last Smile in Sunder City. Readers follow Fetch Phillips, man for hire, in a world where the magic is gone. Humans,…
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