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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: Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves - Quinn Connor
Genre: Magical Realism, horror Published: Sourcebooks Landmark, May 30th 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars "The dead have a tight grip on this...
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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: Wolfwood - Marianna Baer
Genre: Young Adult contemporary, magical realism Published: Amulet Books/Tantor Audio, March 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “What does it...
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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: In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
Genre: Literary Fiction, Sci-fi/Speculative Published: Atlantic Books, February 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “A family is a group of...
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Review: Hellfinder - Paula Stokes
Young Adult, Adventure Published: August 2023, Fitzroy Books My Rating: 3/5 stars Demonically obsessed metal-bands, gunslinging grandma’s...
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Review: Place of Cool Water - Ndirangu Githaiga
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Bon Esprit Books, August 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars “I see you’re one of those people who feel they...
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Review: The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts - Soraya Porter
Genre: Magical Realism Published: Viper Publishing, March 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "See once upon a time there was a woman. And this...
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Review: How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix
Genre: horror Published: Berkley Press, January 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars "Shit," Mark said. "There's a lot of dolls..." Leave it up to...
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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: Monstrilio - Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Genre: Speculative horror Published: Zando Projects, March 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars "He wasn’t Monstrilio anymore, but he wasn’t...
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Review: Catfish Rolling - Clara Kumagai
Genre: Magical Realism, Science fiction, Grief Published: Zephyr, March 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars, potential new favourite "In the zone,...
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Review: We Are All So Good At Smiling - Amber McBride
Genre: Novel in Verse Published: Feiwel Friends, January 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars "My point is that a leaf knows it’s important at all...
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Review: Violets - Kyung-Sook Shin
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Feminist Press 2022, First published January 2001 My Rating: 5/5 stars “This desire grew slowly,...
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Review: Flights - Olga Tokarczuk
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Riverhead Books 2018, originally pubished as Bieguni in 2007. My Rating: DNF “Move. Get going. Blessed...
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Review: Corpse Beneath the Crocus - N.N. Nelson
Genre: modern poetry Published: Atmostphere Press, February 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars “I am haunted, by the ghost of the future I wanted”...
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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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