Tag: 3 stars
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Review: Fraternity by Andy Mientus
3 stars **I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Andy Mientus presents Fraternity, a young adult novel centered on queer students at a boarding school where something metaphysical is about to change everything. Blackfriars is a school known for putting out students who go on to be…
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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: 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: The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker
**I was provided an audiobook ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Kylie Lee Baker presents The Keeper of Night, a story about a girl caught in between two bloodlines- Shinigami and Reaper. Ren serves the gods of death as best she is able and is determined to find…
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Review: My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
**I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Stephen Graham Jones returns with his newest homage to slasher films in My Heart Is a Chainsaw. Jade is the horror chick in her senior year in her small town. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of…
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Review: Venom Lethal Protector by James R Tuck
**I received an audiobook galley from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars James R Tuck adds to the novels of the Marvel universe with Venom: Lethal Protector. Tuck essentially novelizes the comic by the same name and narrator David Bendena lends voice to antihero Venom. Overall, I enjoyed this audiobook.…
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Review: The Smallest of Bones by Holly Lyn Walrath
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Holly Lyn Walrath presents a poetry collection, The Smallest of Bones, discussing a broad variety of topics including relationships, queerness, ghosts, and darkness. NetGalley also chose to classify this work as Horror in addition to Poetry. I…
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Review: The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn Bowman
3 stars **I was provided a physical ARC from the publisher in exchange for honest review.** Akemi Dawn Bowman explores what it means to be human in The Infinity Courts. After Nami is murdered, she finds herself in Infinity, a place that was once dreamed by humans for consciousness to go after a physical body…
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Review: Don’t Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller
**spoiler alert** **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Kirsten Miller presents a YA mystery thriller in Don’t Tell a Soul. Readers follow Bram, a troubled girl going to live with her uncle in the country after something has happened to make her leave…
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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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