Tag: 4 stars
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Review: Anatomy A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Dana Schwartz presents Anatomy, which is a love story in many ways. Readers follow Hazel at the turn of the 19th century. She is to be married to a future viscount, but her true love has always…
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Review: Moth by Michael Takeda
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through BookSirens as a prize in a giveaway. I provide an honest review of my own accord.** 4 stars With Moth, Michael Takeda explores Urbino, Italy through the lens of a young gay man with a heroin addiction. The grungy underbelly of the city and the…
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Review: Oaths of Legacy by Emily Skrutskie
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Emily Skrutskie returns with the second installment in the Bloodright Trilogy, Oaths of Legacy. Readers follow Gal in the aftermath of the end of book one, Bonds of Brass. This second book picks up very shortly after…
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Review: Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** TJ Klune’s newest work, Under the Whispering Door, explores life, death, and grief with care and humor. Readers follow Wallace Price, who is a white-collar attorney and a bit of a jerk. When Wallace has a heart…
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Review: Written in Bone by Sue Black
**I was provided an audio ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Professor Dame Sue Black (whose plethora of other titles I dare not list) returns with her second non-textbook publication with Written in Bone. If I enjoyed All That Remains (and I did), I found that I enjoyed…
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Review: Small Favors by Erin A Craig
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Erin A Craig returns with her small-town horror Small Favors. Readers follow Ellerie Downing, eldest daughter of one of the founding families in Amity Falls. Amity Falls is a small village where neighbors must support one another.…
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Review: Namesake by Adrienne Young
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Adrienne Young concludes her Fable duology with the sequel, Namesake. Fable, West, and the crew of the Marigold return to enemies new and old and to enemies that are maybe actually friends? Namesake sets off right where…
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Review: My Contrary Mary by Hand/Meadows/Ashton
4 stars **I was provided a galley audiobook from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows return to the world established in My Lady Jane to bring My Contrary Mary. In this installment, the author trio continues with their fantastical retellings of historical women by taking…
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Review: The Conductors by Nicole Glover
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Nicole Glover’s debut novel, The Conductors, brings magic to an alternate timeline Underground Railroad. Readers follow Henrietta “Hetty” Rhoades, who along with her husband Benjamin “Benjy”, was once a conductor along the railroad guiding slaves to freedom.…
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Review: The June Boys by Court Stevens
4 stars **I received a galley of the audiobook from the publisher through NetGalley.** Court Stevens tells the story of The June Boys through her story about the investigation into the criminal known as the Gemini Thief. On June 1, boys are taken from somewhere in Tennessee. They are kept for a year and the…
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