Half Wild Review: Wild Ride
Having survived his ordeals, Nathan is now trying to survive his own success: he found his father and received his Three Gifts, and found his special talent as a witch, but that power is…
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Half Bad Review: All Good
Confession time: I resisted and disdained this book at first because the first chapter and a smattering of other sections are in the second person. And I hate that. There's nothing more irritating than wanting…
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The Raven and the Reindeer Review: Snow Queen Sans Snowmen
At this point, everyone is probably sick of "Let It Go," resultant jokes about letting "let it go" go, and anything to do with animated Norse princesses or their sentient snow sidekicks. Which is…
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Untwine Review: Ties That Bind
Untwine is the kind of book that must be read in installments. Not because it has Dickensian chapters; it actually flows so naturally from page to page, story to story, that it really should be…
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Kingfisher Review: Gordon Ramsay’s Grail
I'm pretty sure that somewhere in all fantasy author contracts is the Arthurian Clause: a section stipulating that at least once in their careers, each author must take on some aspect of the King…
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The Maiden Thief Review: Steal a Grim Few Hours
I don't like short story compilations. Even if each story is a perfect, precious jewel--well, that's actually the problem. A good story is complete. It says what it must, and it's done. And yes,…
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Calamity Review: Brilliant As A Radioactive Manatee
No, there aren't atomic Trichechidae in this story. It's not that they would be out of place--this is a series about people with superhuman but often deeply strange abilities--but they exist only in the…
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The Immortals Review: The Pure Maiden Gets Her Hands Dirty
This begins--no, it doesn't even begin, it's epigraphed--with a hymn to the divine twins, Artemis and Apollo. There are three ways to my heart. One is pizza. One is being my husband. The third…
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Bones and All: I Could Gobble You Up I Love You So
You know, I think YA has been trying to one-up itself of late. Ever since Twilight and Harry Potter bowed out of the spotlight, we've had more sick, unstable, unfortunate teenagers than you could…
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Old Man Logan #1 Review: Lost in New York
I am a sucker for time travel stories. Maybe it has something to do with the immutable march of time we all must inevitably face, or maybe it’s just fun to dwell in the…
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