Category: Book Review
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Devoney Looser
author of Wild for Austen About Wild for Austen Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser. Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at last…
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Lindsey Pogue
author of The Savage North Chronicles, The Surviving Earth Chronicles, and several others About The Savage North Chronicles Sometimes the most shattered souls make the fiercest protectors When a virus decimates civilization, those remaining must survive in an unrecognizable world. Elle awakes from her fever forever changed. Her touch is lethal and power courses through…
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Cait Jacobs
author of The Princess Knight About The Princess Knight A princess desperate to win back the prince who broke her heart follows him to his kingdom’s prestigious military academy—and in doing so, falls in love, saves the realm, and continues to look fabulous, in this delightful debut fantasy. Domhnall and Clía are an ideal match—or…
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Seanan McGuire aka Mira Grant
author of Overgrowth and the October Daye series About Overgrowth Day of the Triffids meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this full-on body horror/alien invasion apocalypse. This is just a story. It can’t hurt you anymore. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an…
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Mystic Neptune
author of I Ran Away to Evil About book 1 A reluctant heroine finds unexpected love when she’s sent to assassinate a lonely dark lord in the first book of this cozy romantasy series. Henrietta Doryn has never enjoyed fighting. She’d rather be in the kitchen baking cookies. But it’s her duty as Warrior Princess…
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Beth Revis
author of the Chaotic Orbits trilogy and co-author of Night of the Witch About Chaotic Orbits book 1: Full Speed to a Crash Landing A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter’s…
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Jacquelyn Benson
author of Raiders of the Arcana series About Empire of Shadows, book 1 One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions. When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s…
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Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
Released November 2018 I was pretty sure this book was going to be “okay”. Maybe even “alright”. I was wrong. This book is hilarious, sweet, intelligent, and made me want to read everything T. Kingfisher has written. The story starts off with Halla being mistreated by her dead husband’s family, but then quickly veers away…
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Foundations: Tower of Somnus Book 1 by Cale Plamann
Released July 6th, 2022 Originally released on Royal Road, Foundations follows Kat Debs a young woman sick of being controlled by the corporation (a state-like entity that controls the lives of their “employees”) she was born into. Kat is a young woman who graduates high school and gets placed in her legit job as a…
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Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik
Released July 12th, 2022 Eclipse the Moon is the second book in Starlight’s Shadow trilogy. This one follows Kee, a young bubbly woman who lived through a galactic war and came out still able (if not determined) to see the good in people. Eclipse the Moon picks up right where the first one left off,…
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