Tag: book review
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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: The Past is Red by Catherynne M Valente
**I was provided an audiobook ARC from the publisher through NetGalley.** Actual rating: 3.5 Catherynne Valente reworks the short story “The Future Is Blue” into the novella The Past is Red. Valente lends her unique style and imagination to climate science fiction with this newest work. Tetley lives in Garbagetown, a city that floats along…
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Review: My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
**I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Stephen Graham Jones returns with his newest homage to slasher films in My Heart Is a Chainsaw. Jade is the horror chick in her senior year in her small town. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of…
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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: Venom Lethal Protector by James R Tuck
**I received an audiobook galley from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars James R Tuck adds to the novels of the Marvel universe with Venom: Lethal Protector. Tuck essentially novelizes the comic by the same name and narrator David Bendena lends voice to antihero Venom. Overall, I enjoyed this audiobook.…
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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: The Smallest of Bones by Holly Lyn Walrath
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Holly Lyn Walrath presents a poetry collection, The Smallest of Bones, discussing a broad variety of topics including relationships, queerness, ghosts, and darkness. NetGalley also chose to classify this work as Horror in addition to Poetry. I…
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Review: Greek Myths by Jean Menzies
5 stars **I bought this one myself :)** How could this not be 5 stars? This book is intended as a children’s introduction to Greek myth, and it does exactly that. The classics academia background from author Jean Menzies and the absolutely stunning art from illustrator Katie Ponder make this a must have book. Menzies…
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Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 4.5 Andy Weir returns with his newest space adventure in Project Hail Mary. This time, Earth is under threat from a space algae that has infected the sun, causing it to lose energy. Junior high school science teacher…
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Review: Goblin by Josh Malerman
**I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Josh Malerman returns with his newest novel, Goblin. The novel is composed of six intertwining stories of characters that all live in the city of Goblin, a city with a rich and twisted history full…
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