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Review: Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories - Kelly Barnhill
Genre: Short Stories, Fantasy/Magical Realism Published: Algonquin Books, February 2018 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars "It is our flaws that make...
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Review: Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Granta Books, September 2018 My Rating: 4/5 stars “I shivered. Of course, that was the whole point of...
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Review - The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi
Genre: Fantasy, YA Published: Wednesday Books, January 2019 My Rating: 5/5 stars “That’s it, I’m done with YA fantasy.” - sentence...
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Review: Sadie - Courtney Summers
Genre: YA contemporary/mystery Published: Wednesday Books & MacMillan Audio, September 2018 My Rating: 4/5 stars <i>"When Sadie lost...
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Review: The Book of M - Peng Shepherd
Genre: Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic Published: William Morrow, June 2018 My rating: 5/5 stars If only we were elephants. Then we could help...
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Review: Everything Happens For a Reason - Kate Bowler
Genre: Non-fiction/Biography, Cancer memoirs Published: Random House, February 2018 No Star-rating given “God, I am walking to the edge...
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Review: Down Among the Sticks and Bones - Seanan McGuire
Genre: (YA) fantasy Published: Tor, June 2017 My rating: 2.5/5 stars “Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the...
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Review: Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire
Genre: (YA) fantasy Published: Tor Publishing, April 2016 My Rating: 2/5 stars "She was a story, not an epilogue" One of the worst cases...
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Review: Land Mammals and Sea Creatures - Jen Neale
Genre: Literary fiction Publised: ECW Press, May 2018 My rating: 2/5 stars “Selfdestruction can be a lot of things. Sad, devastating,...
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Review: The Glass Woman - Caroline Lea
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Michael Joseph, February 2019 My rating: 4.5/5 stars Iceland, 1686. Rosa, a village girl from an...
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Review: Halibut on the Moon - David Vann
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Grove Press, March 2019 My Rating: 5/5 stars Halibut on the Moon was among my most anticipated novels...
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Review: An Unkindness of Magicians - Kat Howard
Genre: Fantasy Published: Saga Press, September 2017 My Rating: 3/5 stars “Magic, at its heart, starts with sacrifice. You have to give...
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Review: The Age of Miracles - Karen Thompson Walker
Genre: Apocalyptic, Fiction Published: Random House, 2012 My Rating: 3/5 stars “How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in...
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Review: The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Genre: Fantasy, YA Published: Greenwillow Books, 2009. Originally published 1996 by Harper Collins Rating: 3/5 stars “A little danger...
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Review: All the Birds, Singing - Evie Wyld
Genre: literary fiction Published: Vintage publishing, May 2014 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars Birds Singing, Everywhere by Evie Wyld is a case...
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Review: Tales from the Inner City - Shaun Tan
Genre: Short-story collection Published: Arthur A. Levine Books, September 2018 My rating: 5/5 stars Beautiful in so many ways... Tales...
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Review: The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber
Genre: Fiction/Science-fiction Published: October 2014 My Rating: 5/5 stars “The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something...
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Review: La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Published: Alfred A. Knopf, October 2017 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars La Belle Sauvage unfortunately started 2019...
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Review: Elevation - Stephen King
Genre: "horror" Published: Scribner, October 2018 My rating: 2/5 stars ”Everything leads to this, he thought. To this elevation. If it’s...
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Post Mortem: The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Genre: Literary fiction Published: Harper Collins, first published 1988 My Rating: 1/5 stars CAUSE OF DEATH: Multimorbidity (a.k.a.:...
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