Roar Review: Riders on the Storm
Aurora has a big secret. She's not special. Oh, she's a princess. She's heir to a city-state and has never known physical hardship. She's lovely, adept in languages, a gifted horsewoman, and a practiced…
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Down Among the Sticks and Bones Review: Equal and Opposite Forces
When I was younger, I always wanted a twin. Siblings were fine, but a twin--that would really have been something. Someone just like me who I could always depend on, who would be there…
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The Monstrous Child Review: Hel’s Belle
Breathing new life into old characters is the second-oldest tradition in storytelling, right after making those characters up in the first place. Oh, I could tell you about modern trends, what Wicked and The Red…
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I Believe in a Thing Called Love Review: My Sassy KDrama Girl
A note before I get started: this book should come with one of those advisory warnings, except instead of warning parents against explicit lyrics, it should just warn everyone about lyrics. Just lyrics. Because…
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Given to the Sea Review: Fathomless Weight
Even though Mindy McGinnis is an accomplished author, this feels very much like a first book. I suppose it's because Given to the Sea is her first foray into fantasy, a genre divide that…
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Killing Gravity Review: Aiming to Misbehave
Killing Gravity is a novella by Corey J. White that is hopefully the first in a series featuring Mars, a void witch, space witch, a living psychic weapon. She and her...pet...a creature named Seven,…
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City of Miracles: Immaculate Conclusion
There was never going to be a question of whether City of Miracles, the final installment* of the Divine Cities trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett, was good. Of course it was going to be…
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Review: A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
With V.E. Schwab’s A Conjuring of Light, the doors between Londons and her Darker Shades of Magic trilogy comes to a close. In it, the characters find themselves on the frontlines of a major…
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Waking Gods Review: Rise and Shine
Well! Waking Gods certainly doesn't waste any time, I'll tell you that much. Despite taking place about ten years after the first book (Sleeping Giants), everything is as urgent and immediate as ever. Global…
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But Then I Came Back Review: Eden is Burning
While it's not necessary to read This Raging Light to be drawn into But Then I Came Back, this book is a close companion to Estelle Laure's debut, although very different in tone. If…
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