Tag: fantasy
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Review: The Middling Affliction by Alex Shvartsman
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Alex Shvartsman presents The Middling Affliction, the first in a new urban fantasy series set in New York. The series follows Conrad Brent, a middling, who is able to see magic, but cannot use magic himself…
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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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Review: Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente
**I was provided an audio galley of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Comfort Me With Apples is Catherynne M Valente’s newest novella that seems to defy genre. There is a bit of horror, a bit of fabulism, and a literary sort of vibe all wrapped…
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Review: The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker
**I was provided an audiobook ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Kylie Lee Baker presents The Keeper of Night, a story about a girl caught in between two bloodlines- Shinigami and Reaper. Ren serves the gods of death as best she is able and is determined to find…
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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: 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: 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: The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn Bowman
3 stars **I was provided a physical ARC from the publisher in exchange for honest review.** Akemi Dawn Bowman explores what it means to be human in The Infinity Courts. After Nami is murdered, she finds herself in Infinity, a place that was once dreamed by humans for consciousness to go after a physical body…
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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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