Tag: 4 stars
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Review: Cryptid Club by Sarah Anderson
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Sarah Anderson returns with Cryptid Club, a collection of short comics centering on various cryptids. I have been a fan of Sarah Anderson’s comics for quite some time, and love a good themed collection. Anderson also provides…
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Review: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
4 stars **I received an Audio Review Copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Ruthanna Emrys presents her newest scifi novel, A Half-Built Garden. Readers follow Judy as she accidentally becomes the human who engages in first contact with two alien species. The aliens have said they have…
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Review: Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
4 stars **I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Robert Jackson Bennett wraps up the Founders Trilogy with the final novel, Locklands. Of course, for the concluding novel, it is difficult to discuss without spoilers. I will do my best to avoid them, but proceed with caution…
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Review: Vows of Empire by Emily Skrutskie
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Emily Skrutskie completes the Bloodright Trilogy with Vows of Empire. This book picks up shortly after the cliffhanger ending of book two, and any real discussion of the plot will undoubtedly spoil the first two books. Suffice…
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Review: Sorceline by Sylvia Douyé
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Sylvia Douyé presents Sorceline Volume 1, an upper middle grade fantasy graphic novel following the titular Sorceline. Sorceline finds herself in a magical school for cryptozoology where she and her fellow students aim to learn about magical creatures and…
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Review: Batter Royale by Leisl Adams
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Leisl Adams debuts with a contemporary graphic novel, Batter Royale. Marketed as Check, Please! meets The Great British Bake Off, readers follow Fred and Rose as they compete on a reality cooking show. Fred wants the prize…
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Review: Yagi the Bookshop Goat by Fumi Furukawa
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Fumi Furukawa’s Yagi the Bookshop Goat is a sweet and spicy yaoi manga intended for adults. Yagi is a goat who loves books and desperately wants to work in a bookshop. Since Yagi is a goat, he…
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Review: Jackals Wild by Abby Kaitz
**I was provided an electronic ARC through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Abby Kaitz presents Jackals Wild, a queer new adult contemporary romance. College mathematician Adam is all about making sure he is acing his classes and putting in the work to get there. Adam is thrown off by his annoyingly attractive…
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Review: The City of Dusk by Tara Sim
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Tara Sim returns with the ambitious first book of an epic fantasy series, The City of Dusk. Sim has created a world of multiple coinciding realms and those realms are accompanied by an incredible amount of species,…
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Review: Edgewood by Kristen Ciccarelli
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Kristen Ciccarelli returns with a standalone fantasy centered on song and sacrifice. Readers follow Emeline Lark who is living her dream of making her way in the music industry. But as Emeline works to realize her dream,…
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