Tag: fantasy
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Review: The Midspring Rebellion by Doreen Heron
2 stars ** I was provided with an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** The Midspring Rebellion by Doreen Heron follows the King of the Fairies, Oberon, as he seeks a vacation in the human world after his wife, Titania, leaves him. There he meets Nick Chandler who is…
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Review: Master of Restless Shadows by Ginn Hale
** I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 4.5 stars Ginn Hale’s newest fantasy continues to explore the universe she has previously established in other works. In this book, we follow a wide variety of characters, but most notably Narsi and Atreau. Narsi is a…
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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 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: 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: Cursed by Thomas Wheeler
** I was provided an electronic ARC of this book by publisher, Simon & Schuster, through NetGalley in return for an honest review.** Actual rating: 2.5 stars The team of Frank Miller and Thomas Wheeler create a story in “Cursed” where Arthurian legend is retold with sixteen-year-old Nimue in possession of the Sword of Power.…
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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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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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