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Continue reading →: The Return of Ellie Black
Authored by Emiko Jean; Published May 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I may have read one too many novels like The Return of Ellie Black. To me, there was nothing particularly shocking or remarkable in it–and in several ways, that’s actually a good thing. The writing didn’t get in the…
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Continue reading →: The Ministry of Time Made Me Laugh and Think
Authored by Kaliane Bradley; Published May 2024; Science fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ The first thing that struck me about The Ministry of Time was that it made me laugh. Introduce figures from across the past several centuries into the modern-day U.K., and surely hijinks will ensue. The humor got me…
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Continue reading →: The Goblin Emperor is Light on Magic, Heavy on Heart
Authored by Katherine Addison; Published 2014; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Although elves and goblins are the only characters in The Goblin Emperor, I found myself consistently forgetting that fact. This novel was about 95% court intrigue, and 5% fantasy. While I would have liked a few more hints of the…
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Continue reading →: Good Material Breaks the Romance Mold
Authored by Dolly Alderton; Published November 2023 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ When I first started Good Material, I kind of hated it. A little part of me dreaded picking it up every time. It is a disturbingly detailed and accurate recounting of a bad break up, and, as a mark of quite how…
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Continue reading →: Lies and Weddings Shows the World of the Super Rich
Authored by Kevin Kwan; Published May 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ As far as I’m concerned, there’s really only one reason to read Kevin Kwan’s books: to step into the lives of the uber-rich and enjoy a few days in their shoes. Like many of his other novels, Lies and…
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Continue reading →: The Fifth Season Looks at How Much We Love Control
Authored by N.K. Jemisin; Published in 2015; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The Fifth Season is totally transporting—these four hundred pages introduce you to a new world, a new language, a new way of living. I can be intimidated by books that do this, that immerse me in a whole new…
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Continue reading →: Long Time Gone
Authored by Charlie Donlea; Published May 2024; Mystery ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ Sometimes, I set myself up for failure when I pick up a mystery to read. My brain has a tendency to go into overdrive and create twists where none exist, seeing ghosts behind every metaphorical corner. Reading Long Time…
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Continue reading →: Funny Story is About More than Romance
Authored by Emily Henry; Published April 2024; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ I love Emily Henry’s romances. They’re never *just* about the love story but the full emotional life of the heroine. At the end of Henry’s books, the star crossed pair is not just together, but better. Funny Story is…
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Continue reading →: These Is My Words Brings Me Back to the Oregon Trail
Authored by Nancy Turner; Published 1998; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ These is My Words is a significant departure from the novels that I normally read. It doesn’t have one big climax that the entire book is leading up to; instead, it’s a series of mountains and valleys throughout the…
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Continue reading →: The Wings Upon Her Back Shows the Destruction Religion and Power Can Wreak
Authored by Samantha Mills; Published April 2024; Science Fiction/Fantasy ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ The heart of the most powerful version of the story of The Wings Upon Her Back is the trauma that can be inflicted by a person seeking power, wrapped in the trappings of religion. Trauma inflicted on a…
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