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Book Review: Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland

SynopsisKamai was told not to open the Black Door.  But the Black door is tempting.  As a Soulwalker, Kamai is used to being able to know everything, and she must know what's Beyond the Black Door.  Thank you to Imprint for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.  This post contains affiliate links. You can read more on my disclosures page. ReviewBeyond the Black Door is basically non-stop action…
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Book Review: Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry

Synopsis Best friends are forged by fire. For Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce, that fire happened the night they met outside the police station—both deciding whether to turn their families in. Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home that she shares with her seemingly perfect father, celebrity weatherman Stormy Olsen. No one knows that he locks the pantry door to control her eating and leaves bruises where no one…
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Book Review: The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey

Thank you to Inkyaed Press for Young Readers and Netgalley for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.       From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother’s hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new…
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Book Review: Fireborne by Rosaria Munda

Thank you to G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers and Netgalley for sending me an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.    Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone—even the lowborn—a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders.Now they are both rising stars in the new regime, despite backgrounds that couldn’t be more different. Annie’s lowborn family was executed…
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Book Review: The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Thank you to St. Martin's Press for sending me an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.    Survive the year.No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden.In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the…
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Frankly in Love by David Yoon

Thank you to Penguin and Libro.fm for providing me an audio copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.     High school senior Frank Li is a Limbo–his term for Korean-American kids who find themselves caught between their parents’ traditional expectations and their own Southern California upbringing. His parents have one rule when it comes to romance–“Date Korean”–which proves complicated when Frank falls for Brit Means, who is smart, beautiful–and…
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Book Review: Wicked Fox by Kat Cho

   Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret--she's a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hide and hunt.But after feeding one full moon, Miyoung crosses paths with Jihoon, a human boy, being attacked by a goblin…
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Who’s Your Daddy?

This post is going to have spoilers, so I want to make sure that you are well aware of that.  I tried to pick older books so that the spoilers are at a minimum. So this isn't Wednesday, it isn't that sort of Daddy.  This is more the "Luke, I am your father" sort of thing.  You know when the villain ends up being the father of the main character, sending the main…
September 10, 2019
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Book Review: There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool

Thank you to Henry Holt and Co. for sending me an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.    For generations, the Seven Prophets guided humanity. Using their visions of the future, they ended wars and united nations―until the day, one hundred years ago, when the Prophets disappeared.All they left behind was one final, secret prophecy, foretelling an Age of Darkness and the birth of a new Prophet who could…
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Book Review: The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young

Thank you to Wednesday Books and NetGalley for sending me an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.   For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of…