Tag: 4 stars
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Review: The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh
** I came to be in possession of an ARC, but the ARC was NOT provided to me by the publisher. In good faith, I’ll write a quick review anyhow. 🙂 ** 4 stars Renee Ahdieh’s newest work, The Beautiful, has been hailed as the book to bring vampires back to YA. There are vampires.…
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Review: The Sin Soldiers by Tracy Auerbach
4 stars ** I was provided an electronic ARC of this book by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** In The Sin Soldiers, author Tracy Auerbach, utilizes her background as a science teacher to bring the dystopian science fiction tale to life. The world that Auerbach creates is one in which crystals…
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Review: A Drop of Magic by LR Braden
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.** LR Braden’s debut novel, A Drop of Magic, is part murder mystery, part preternatural fantasy, and one solid good time. The reader follows the perspective of metalsmith Alex Blackwood as she learns about…
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Review: Critique of Criminal Reason by Michael Gregorio
4 stars Critique of Criminal Reason is certainly what it promised to be- a historical fiction detective novel. Michael Gregorio cleverly utilized a historical background of Napoleonic era Prussia combined with the inspiration of the philosophies of Immanuel Kant to form the backbone of the story. Add in one young investigative magistrate in Hanno Stiffeniis…
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Review: Irenicon by Aidan Harte
4 stars Ohhh this book. First, let me say that I absolutely enjoyed reading Irenicon. After saying that, let me begin to unpack this whole situation. This book was slow to get through for me, but that is because the entire first section of the book is absolutely and beautifully filled with world-building. Harte has…
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Review: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
4 stars Jonathan Stroud has done it again. I was first introduced to Stroud, like most, through his Bartimaeus books. I loved Stroud’s accessible and witty flair to writing then, and I still love it now. Stroud creates an additional alternative modern London with the Lockwood & Co series. “The Problem”, as the paranormal activity…
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