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Hotel Magnifique eARC Review
All her life, Jani has dreamed of Elsewhere. Just barely scraping by with her job at a tannery, she’s resigned to a dreary life in the port town of Durc, caring for her younger sister Zosa. That is, until the Hotel Magnifique comes to town. – GoodReads My Review Do…
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Plutoshine eARC Review
Terraforming – the megascale-engineering of a planet’s surface to one more Earth-like – is now commonplace across the Solar System, and Pluto’s is set to be the most ambitious transformation yet. – GoodReads My Review This was pretty much sci-fi perfection. The actual science melding with this amazing plot that…
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A Far Wilder Magic eARC Review
A MAGICAL SECRET. A MYTHICAL HUNT. AND A LOVE THAT COULD RISK EVERYTHING. – GoodReads My Review Guess what really wasn’t about a magical secret or a mythical hunt. *Crickets chirp* Just wanted to sob ‘disappointment’ sadly as I finished reading this. The pacing was not what I expected given…
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The Atlas Six eARC Review
The Alexandrian Society is a secret society of magical academicians, the best in the world. – GoodReads My Review There was so much hype about this book I went in thinking I wasn’t going to like it very much or that it would just straight up disappoint me. Imagine how…
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The Gifts that Bind Us eARC Review
Maeve and her friends have revealed their powers and banded together as a coven: Roe can pick locks, Lily sends sparks flying, Maeve can read minds and Fiona can heal any injury. – GoodReads My Review CW: Transphobia, homophobia, self harm are strong themes in this. They’re back; Maeve, Roe,…
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Blood Mercy eARC Review
One human. One immortal. Will their alliance save the kingdom, or will their forbidden love be a death sentence? – GoodReads My Review Slow. Intricate world-building. Building tension. Amazing political-court intrigue. And a dash of vampires. I’m sorry, Vela Roth, but get out of my head. It’s like she took…
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I Must Betray You eARC Review
Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. – GoodReads My Review I suppose I’m not what one would call an emotional reader, I get teary eyed a lot…
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The Iron Sword eARC Review
As Evenfall nears, the stakes grow ever higher for those in Faery… – GoodReads My Review Before we start, if you’re curious, here’s my review for The Iron Raven: Now! Onto The Iron Sword! Once again we’re thrown back into the magnificent world of Faery that Kagawa has built. She’s…
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The Midnight Girls eARC Review
It’s Karnawał season in the snow-cloaked Kingdom of Lechija, and from now until midnight when the church bells ring an end to Devil’s Tuesday time will be marked with wintry balls and glittery disguises, cavalcades of nightly torch-lit “kuligi” sleigh-parties. Unbeknownst to the oblivious merrymakers, two monsters join the fun,…
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A Marvellous Light eARC Reivew
Robin’s predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they’ve been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in…
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