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Review: The Reluctant Healer by Andrew Himmel

I was given a copy of the Reluctant Healer in exchange for an honest review.  The Reluctant Healer tells the story of a young attorney who is torn between mounting evidence that he has the spiritual ability to heal others and his life-long skepticism of alternative views. Will Alexander is cautious and conventional. But when he meets Erica, a beautiful, intense energy healer, he becomes troubled not only by her unorthodox endeavors but also by…
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Review: Vicious by V.E. Schwab

Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. Ten years later, Victor breaks out of…
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Review: Don’t Stay Up Late by R.L. Stine

Ever since a car accident killed her father and put Lisa and her mother into the hospital, Lisa can't think straight. She's plagued by nightmares and hallucinations that force her to relive the accident over and over again in vivid detail. When Lisa finds out that a neighbor is looking for a babysitter for her young son, she takes the job immediately, eager to keep busy and shake these disturbing images from her…
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Book Review: City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

Happy Halloween!!  I thought this book was fitting for the day! Synopsis Cassidy Blake sees ghosts.  In fact her bet friend is a ghost.  When her parents a television ghost hunting duo travel to Edinburgh, Scotland, for their new TV show, Cass—and Jacob—join them. There, Cass is surrounded by ghosts and learns a little more about herself and her gifts, and fighting the Red Raven. Review So I should preface this by saying…
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Review: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon…
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Review: #fashionvictim by Amina Akhtar

Fashion editor Anya St. Clair is on the verge of greatness. Her wardrobe is to die for. Her social media is killer. And her career path is littered with the bodies of anyone who got in her way. She’s worked hard to get where she is, but she doesn’t have everything. Not like Sarah Taft. Anya’s obsession sits one desk away. Beautiful, stylish, and rich, she was born to be a fashion world…
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Review: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Stella loved math, algorithms, and economics.  What she doesn't love french kissing, loud noises and sex in general.  Her parents are pressuring her to get a boyfriend and give them grandbabies.  Stella thinks that she needs to get better at sex, and so she hires an escort to teach her.  When Michael Phan shows Stella that not all kisses feel like hark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. This book has a lot…
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The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Synopsis Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs…
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Review: Sadie by Courtney Summers

When her sister is found dead and no one is held responsible, Sadie goes out on her own to find her sister's killer.  Upon hearing Sadie's story, West McCray starts a podcast that tracks Sadie's journey, hoping to find her. This is not an easy book to read, but it is worth it. This is probably the first book I have read that I think would have been better as an audiobook. I…
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Review: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

After serving a year of her hard labor sentence,  Celaena Sardothien id offered the chance at freedom, as long as she agrees to be the Champion of the Crown Prince in a competition in a competition to find a new royal assassin. She must beat out thieves, assassins, and warriors from across the empire.  With the help of Captain Westfall, she trains to beat out her competition. When one of the contestants turns…