Book Review
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Rapid Fire Reviews
Once again, it’s time for some rapid fire reviews! Because sometimes you don’t always have a ton to say (regardless of whether or not you liked a book). Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty’s most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are graciously provided upon request, and should you Continue reading
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Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
Book review Going home is always hard. For Vera, going home means returning to the notorious Crowder House where her serial killer father murdered his victims and buried their bodies beneath. Then notes start to appear in Vera’s father’s handwriting – but they can’t be from him. He has been dead for years. Vera thought Continue reading
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Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher
Book review He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a secretive order, on the trail of the raiders who burned her convent and kidnapped her sisters. When their paths cross at the point of a sword, Istvhan and Clara will be pitched headlong into Continue reading
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Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
Book review During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a ‘HELP NEEDED’ sign in a flower shop window. She’s just left her fiancé, lost her job, and moved home to her parents’ house. She has to make a change and bring some good into her life, so she goes inside Continue reading
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My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
Book review Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos’ life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos’ backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes Continue reading
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Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
Book review Noah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reckoning” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in. But when his own phone calls go Continue reading
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The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton
Book review At sixteen, Honora ‘Nora’ Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in Gamanix; her family controls all the money – and all the magic – in the entire country. But when her mother is found murdered in an alley, the family throne and fortune are up for grabs, which means Nora Continue reading
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Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher
Book review Whilst foraging for startleflower, perfumer Grace finds herself pursued by ruffians and rescued by a handsome paladin in shining armour. Only, to outwit her hunters they must pretend to be doing something very unrespectable in an alleyway. Stephen, a broken paladin, spends his time knitting socks and working as a bodyguard, living only for Continue reading
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Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Book review A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz. You don’t have to eat food to know the way to a city’s heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned Continue reading
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The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Book review Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death. ‘Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath.’ In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Continue reading
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