Tag: young adult
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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: 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: Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Wab Kinew brings a young adult light scifi with Walking in Two Worlds. Readers follow Bugz, a power player in a digital world who has a lot of self-doubt in the real world. Kinew draws upon Anishinaabe…
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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 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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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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