Tag: 3 stars
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Review: Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash by Yahtzee Croshaw
**I was provided a digital ARC from the publisher in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Jacques McKeown returns in Yahtzee Croshaw’s sequel to Will Save the Galaxy for Food, the aptly named Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash. Our main character is a star pilot who has been through many names and identities, but…
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Review: Ink by Jonathan Maberry
**I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Jonathan Maberry’s newest work, Ink, is a supernatural horror story that surrounds something strange happening in Pine Deep, PA. Pine Deep has always been a strange town with weird things happening. But now, people in the…
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Review: Kink: Stories by RO Kwon et al
*I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars RO Kwon and Garth Greenwell compile a series of short literary fiction stories from various authors to convey the spectrum of kink, love, and desire. As always, with anthologies, certain stories resonate more than others for each…
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Review: The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeier
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Kevin Brockmeier brings a plethora of ghost stories in the anthology The Ghost Variations. Brockmeier further divides the anthology into similar themes, which made for a pleasant reading experience. My issues with this book are very similar…
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Review: The Chosen by Taran Matharu
3 stars **I was provided an electronic copy post-publication from the publisher in exchange for honest review.** Taran Matharu begins a new YA fantasy series with The Chosen. Readers follow a group of characters who find themselves torn from their homes to participate in a game with unknown rules, in an unknown time, in a…
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Review: Night Call by Brenden Carlson
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Brenden Carlson’s Night Call is the start of a series following Elias Roche, former cop now Mafia enforcer. Set in an alternate history 1930s New York where robotics are commonplace assets, Elias is saddled with an Automatic…
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Review: Diana and the Island of No Return by Aisha Saeed
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Aisha Saeed brings the first of a new series of middle grade adventures surrounding Wonder Woman. Princess Diana, age 12, maintains that she is ready to begin Amazon warrior training, but her mother would like for her…
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Review: Where the Veil is Thin by Alana Joli Abbott
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Where the Veil is Thin is a collection of short stories from various authors, all surrounding the fae folk. Each story has a somewhat different take on fae lore or explores a different aspect of fae lore.…
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Review: American Midnight Tales of the Dark by Laird Hunt
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Laird Hunt’s American Midnight Tales of the Dark is a selection of short stories from a variety of authors in horror literature. I was happy to have the opportunity to read the selection as some I was…
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Review: Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh
**I was provided a physical ARC by the publisher in a mystery box.** 3 stars Sophie Mackintosh’s newest novel involves a society where girls receive a lottery ticket when they enter puberty. Blue gets you freedom and a career. White gets you marriage and motherhood. When Calla, a blue ticket recipient, decides she wants to…
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