Tag: 3 stars
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Review: Scarlet Gaze by Foster Bridget Cassidy
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Scarlet Gaze is a new adult paranormal romance centered around a magical school in England. Collin is a freshman at Marke Staple University, where he learns that magic is real and that he has power. When his…
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Review: 55 slightly sinister stories by Racha Mourtada
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher on NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Racha Mourtada brings 55 slightly sinister stories, a collection of 55 drabbles that are all 55 words long exactly. There are corresponding illustrations for the drabbles that are included in the collection as well. This collection is…
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Review: All the Pretty Things by Emily Arsenault
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Emily Arsenault’s second YA novel, All the Pretty Things, is part slice of life, part mystery, and part hard-hitting contemporary. Readers follow Ivy Cork whose father owns a doughnut franchise and amusement park. When a local kid…
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Review: Hollow by Rhonda Parrish
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** In Hollow, Rhonda Parrish tells the story of Morgan, a high school student who is going through quite a lot. Morgan has had a bad breakup and has been in a bad car accident that killed her…
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Review: The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Roshani Chokshi’s newest book, The Silvered Serpents, is the sequel to The Gilded Wolves. Readers follow a group of characters in shifting perspectives who make up a found family, and they have a new heist in this…
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Review: Nils The Tree of Life by Jérôme Hamon
3 stars **I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Jérôme Hamon brings us Nils: The Tree of Life, a nordic inspired fantasy graphic novel set in a society where things have ceased growing. The land and people both have become infertile. Nils and his father seek to…
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Review: The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Alechia Dow creates a story in the not-so-distant future where alien races have landed on and conquered Earth. We follow two characters: Janelle Baker, a Black human girl who runs an illicit library, and M0Rr1S, a lab made…
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Review: Mainly By Moonlight by Josh Lanyon
3 stars **I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Josh Lanyon brings forth a murder mystery fantasy LGBTQ whirlwind romance. Cosmo is a witch who is all set to marry the love of his life, the new police commissioner, John. But when Cosmo is found at the…
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Review: The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy
3 stars ** I was provided an electronic ARC of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.** Lauren Mansy’s novel, The Memory Thief, follows a teenaged girl, Julietta, in a world where memories are used as currency. Memories can be traded, stolen, sold, and more. The Gifted have varying…
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Review: All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
3 stars This book is actually difficult for me to review because I have such mixed feelings about it. A majority of my mixed feelings about it likely come from my existing thoughts about Maggie Stiefvater as a writer. Let me start off by saying that I’ve read the Raven Cycle and The Scorpio Races.…
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