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Review: Summer Fishing in Lapland - Juhani Karila
Genre: magical realism Published: Pushkin Press, July 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summer Fishing in Lapland has been out for a few years...
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Review: The Surviving Sky - Kritika H. Rao
Genre: fantasy/sci-fi Published: Titan Books, June 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars I added The Surviving Sky to my list of most anticipated...
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Review: Assassin of Reality - Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Genre: Fantasy Published: Harper Voyager 2023, originally published by Эксмо in 2021 in the original Russian. My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “How...
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Review: Dark Water Daughter - H.M. Long
Genre: Fantasy Published: Titan Books, July 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars “There are fates worse than death, Mr. Rosser.” For the past few...
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Review: The Ghost Theatre - Mat Oseman
Genre: Historical Fantasy Published: Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars “The thing is, Shay: the stage is the only...
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Review: The Girl from Earth's End - Tara Dairman
Genre: Middle-grade fantasy Published: Candlewick Press, March 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars Look, I’ve done the whole “I’m not crying, you...
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Review: A Fire Endless - Rebecca Ross
Genre: Fantasy Published: Harper Collings, Dec 2022 My Rating: 4/5 stars Note: this is part two in the Elements of Candence duology. Link...
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Review: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett
Genre: fantasy Published: Orbit, January 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars “Perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect...
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Review: Age of Myth - Michael J. Sullivan
Genre: High Fantasy Published: Del Rey, June 2016 My Rating: 3/5 stars Synopsis: Since time immemorial, humans have worshipped the gods...
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Review: The Waking Forest - Alyssa Wees
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Published: Delacorte, March 2019 My Rating: 1/5 stars I gave this book two valiant attempts but I simply can’t...
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Review: The Secret of Haven Point - Lisette Auton
Genre: Middle-Grade Fantasy Published: Puffin Books (Penguin), February 2022 My Rating: 5/5 stars “I still haven’t told my gang about all...
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Review: Natural Law - Solomonica de Winter
Genre: Sci-fi Published: Prometheus, October 2022 My Rating: 2/5 stars As a Dutchy myself, who reads and writes almost exclusively in...
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Review: Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree
Genre: Cozy Fantasy Published: Tor, November 2022 originally self-published by the author, February 2022 My Rating: 3/5 stars I feel like...
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Review: Wildblood - Lauren Blackwood
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Published: Little Brown Book Group, February 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars Wildblood felt like a book with an...
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Review: Senlin Ascends - Josiah Bancroft
Gerne: Fantasy Published: Orbit January 2018, originally self-published February 2013 My Rating: 2/5 stars “Never let a rigid itinerary...
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Review: The Luminaries - Susan Dennard
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Published: Daphne Press, January 2023 My Rating: 1/5 stars “Culture runs deeper than blood. ” Might well be,...
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Review: The First Binding – R.R. Virdi
Genre: Fantasy Published: Gollancz, August 2022 My Rating: 4/5 stars The First Binding seems to be one of the more divisive fantasy...
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Review: Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
Genre: Fantasy, Retelling Published: Redbook/Orbit, April 2022 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars “I was born on the full moon under an auspicious...
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Review: Babel - R.F. Kuang
Genre: Fantasy Published: Harper Voyager, August 2022 My rating: 3.5/5 stars "Translation in it's essence, is always an act of betrayal."...
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Review: The Monsters We Defy - Leslye Penelope
Genre: Historical Fantasy Published: Redhook/Orbit Publishing, August 2022 My Rating: 5/5 stars Every so often Redhook, being the huge...
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