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Sweet & Bitter Magic
Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation. But after committing the worst magical sin, she’s exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. –GoodReads My Review Cottagecore aesthetics with a sweet love story between a grumpy girl and a cinnamon roll girl? Uh. All…
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Mini Review Day
Paris, at the dawn of the modern age: Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. – GoodReads My Review I picked this up during my recent spat of graphic novel/comic purchases and the spawn and I adore it! A sweet tale…
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The LGBTQ+ Rep Book Tag
Thank you so much to Nine Tale Vixen for this tag which is of course perfect as we close out on another Pride month! Here’s her own tag answers, I loved them! I used The Sassy Library Fox’s artwork/blog banner and I’m so thankful for being allowed to do so!…
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Mini Review Day
GoodReads: Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth. Cesare Aldo, a former soldier and now…
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Girl, Serpent, Thorn Review
GoodReads: A captivating and utterly original fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse… There was and there was…
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Not Your Sidekick Review
GoodReads Welcome to Andover… where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship—only it turns…
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Cinderella is Dead eARC Review
GoodReads: It’s 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over. Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she’s tiny until the night she’s sent to the royal ball for choosing. And every girl knows that…
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Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, A Memoir ARC Review
GoodReads: From bestselling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs. This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps…
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A Phoenix First Must Burn: Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance and Hope Review
GoodReads: Evoking Beyoncé’s Lemonade for a YA audience, these authors have woven worlds to create stunning narratives that centre Black women and gender nonconforming individuals. With fantasy, science fiction and magic at their core, the stories are sharp, atmospheric and visual explorations of histories, relationships and alternate universes that you can’t help…
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Pride Month Recs and TBR
Happy Pride Month, I know that there’s a lot going on in the world right now, and so much of it is so important, especially Black Lives Matter and their movement really gaining a foothold finally. [And remember, ALL Black Lives Matter, you can’t be part of the movement…
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