Tag: book review
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Book Review: The Starlit Prince
After reading the Scepter and Crown series by C. F. E. Black last year, I decided to pick up her next book, The Starlit Prince, part of the Fae Secrets series of standalone romantasy novels. This story was inspired by the Spanish fairytale The Lily and the Bear, but could also be compared to Beauty and…
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Book Review: Caraval
In my Facebook Group, “The Reader’s Guild,” we were discussing what book world readers would want to fall into. One of them suggested the world of Caraval. Until that point, I had never heard of the book, but was intrigued by this reader’s answer. So I went looking, and when I found this book available on my Libby account…
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Book Review: The Boys in the Boat
This novel by Daniel James Brown is one that I had heard about for months. Friends and family around me kept asking, “Have you read The Boys in the Boat yet?” Well, it finally came up in my Libby account (a free ebook and audiobook service provided by most libraries. If you have a library card, you can usually access…
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Book Review: On The Wings of Ash and Dust
Action, danger, and challenging tasks, all underscored by a star-crossed romance, make this Hunger Games X Pirates of the Caribbean X Tinkerbell YA novel a nice lighter-hearted read. (And you can find it in audio on Spotify and Audible). When five clans of faeries get together, things heat up into a game of life or…
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Book Review: The Lunar Chronicles
Four fairytale retellings in a futuristic world where cyborgs exist. I first came across The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer when I was a new mom with an infant that didn’t sleep. I loved the series then, and I still love it today. One thing that sets Meyer’s retellings apart is how she gives just enough of…
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Book Review: A Breaking of Realms
How far would you go for those you loved? A BREAKING OF REALMS is a fascinating dive into themes of love and loyalty and how those two things mix, like oil and water. And sometimes it’s enough to break the world… But before we dive into the review, don’t forget to like the post and…