Category: Book Reviews
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ARC Review: The Tombs by Deborah Schaumberg
The Tombs Author: Deborah Schaumberg Genre: Fantasy, YA, Historical Fiction Release date: February 20th 2018 Publisher: HarperCollins Goodreads | Purchase New York, 1882. A dark, forbidding city, and no place for a girl with unexplainable powers. Sixteen-year-old Avery Kohl pines for the life she had before her mother was taken. She fears the mysterious men…
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ARC Review: We Own the Sky by Sara Crawford
We Own the Sky Author: Sara Crawford Genre: YA, Fantasy, paranormal, magic, mythology Publication Date: August 15th 2017 Goodreads What could you create if you fell in love with a Muse? 16-year-old musician, Sylvia Baker, has always been different. She’s the only one who can see the “flickering people.” When she sees a gorgeous flickering…
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ARC: Ouroboros by Genevieve Iseult Eldredge
Ouroboros Author: Genevieve Iseult Eldredge Genre: Adaptation, YA, Fantasy, Fairytale Publisher: Monster House Books LLC Goodreads All introverted geek girl Syl Skye wants is to get close to her girlfriend. But when you can kill with a simple touch, a normal date night’s not really in the cards. As it happens, Syl is also a…
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ARC Review: Society of Wishes by Elise Kova
Society of Wishes by Elise Kova Series: Wish Quartet #1 Genre: Urban Fantasy, paranormal, magic, dystopia Goodreads | Bookwitty BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. Josephina Espinosa makes her living as a hacker-for-hire in the Lone Star Republic, a remnant of the fractured U.S.A. That is, until the day she and her best friend are…
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ARC Review: Dragon’s Future by Kandi J. Wyatt
Dragon’s Future Author: Kandi J. Wyatt Series: Dragon Courage #1 Format: Audiobook Genre: Fantasy, YA Goodreads | Bookwitty Every child of Woolpren dreams of becoming one, but only a few are chosen. Now, ten-year-old twin brother and sister, Ruskya and Duskya, have been selected to join an elite group of riders: dragon riders. Full of…
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ARC Review: Quest of Thunder by Karissa Laurel
Quest of Thunder Author: Karissa Laurel Series: The Stormbourne Chronicles #2 Genre: Fantasy, adventure, young adult Evelyn Stormbourne has overcome revolutionaries, pirates, devious relatives, and powerful Magicians to claim her birthright as Lady of Thunder, but before she can embrace her dominion over the skies, her powers falter, leaving her impotent and adrift. Under the…
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ARC Review: Duty Bound by Christina Bauer
Duty Bound Author: Christina Bauer Genre: Paranormal, YA, Fantasy Publisher: Monster House Books Release Date: February 27th 2018 By popular demand! A prequel novella to the best-selling Angebound, told from Prince Lincoln’s point of view! As the High Prince of the demon-fighting thrax, Lincoln knows he must marry for political gain. Not that he minds.…
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ARC Review: Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones
Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones Publisher: Thomas Dunne Release Date: February 7th 2017 Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Retellings, Romance Goodreads | Bookwitty All her life, Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, dangerous Goblin King. They’ve enraptured her spirit and inspired her musical compositions. Now eighteen, Liesl can’t help but feel that her musical dreams and…
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Book Review: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Title: The Mysterious Affair at Styles Author: Agatha Christie Series: Hercule Poirot #1 Genre: Mystery, murder mystery, classic, detective, crime GOODREADS | BOOKWITTY Rating: Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Sus-pects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary–from the heiress’s fawning…
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Book Review: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Author: Agatha Christie Series: Hercule Poirot #4 Rating: Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He knew someone was blackmailing her ― and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.…