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Monday Mini Reviews: 1/7

By CandidCeillie January 7, 2019January 2, 2019

While I was down from my surgery, there wasn't a whole lot I could do. However, I could hold my phone and read. Thanks to the pain and the medicines…

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Review: Under the Midnight Sun by Lore Graham

By CandidCeillie August 13, 2018August 11, 2018

In Under the Midnight Sun, the eldest son of Thunderhill's warrior-kings, Otto Johanson lives for battle but has forsaken love since the death of his partner three years ago. Still…

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Review: All of This Is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor

By CandidCeillie April 30, 2018April 21, 2018

Miri Tan loved the book Undertow like it was a living being. So when she and her friends went to a book signing to meet the author, Fatima Ro, they…

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Review:: Isle of Blood and Stone by Makiia Lucier

By CandidCeillie April 9, 2018March 23, 2018

Nineteen-year-old Elias is a royal explorer, a skilled mapmaker, and the new king of del Mar's oldest friend. Soon he will embark on the adventure of a lifetime, an expedition…

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February Wrap Up

By CandidCeillie February 28, 2018February 27, 2018

For being the shortest month of the year, did February drag on for anyone else? I mean, jeez! I have been writing.... A LOT. Like, seriously, I'm pretty sure there…

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Review:: Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones

By CandidCeillie February 12, 2018September 9, 2019

Shadowsong picks up six months after the end of Wintersong. Liesl is working toward furthering both her brother’s and her own musical careers. Although she is determined to look forward and not…

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Review:: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

By CandidCeillie January 30, 2018January 22, 2018

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s…

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Review:: The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

By CandidCeillie October 20, 2017February 9, 2018

Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty—an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and One Thousand and One…

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Review:: Murder, Magic and What We Wore by Kelly Jones

By CandidCeillie September 25, 2017February 15, 2018

The year is 1818, the city is London, and 16-year-old Annis Whitworth has just learned that her father is dead and all his money is missing. And so, of course,…

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Review:: The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken

By CandidCeillie September 1, 2017March 10, 2018

"I would say it's a pleasure to meet thee, Prosperity Oceanus Redding, but truly, I only anticipate the delights of destroying thy happiness." - The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding Prosper…

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Review:: The Butcher’s Daughter by Florence Grende

By CandidCeillie July 21, 2017March 25, 2018

Florence Grende's memoir The Butcher's Daughter is a family portrait drawn in lyrical style that examines the effects of war, and follows the narrator's search for her parents survival story…

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Review:: The Tell-Tale Tarte by Maya Corrigan

By CandidCeillie June 23, 2017March 25, 2018

It's a cold January in the Chesapeake Bay area, but Cool Down Cafe manager Val Deniston has plenty to sweat over--like catering a book club event, testing recipes for her…

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Review:: Wild by Hannah Moskowitz

By CandidCeillie May 25, 2017March 25, 2018

Zack Ramos is training for two things: being a parent to his twelve-year-old sister once his mother's early-onset Alzheimer's (the same kind he and his sister each have a 50%…

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Review:: Nasty Women Anthology

By CandidCeillie May 19, 2017March 25, 2018

With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever for women to share their experiences. We must hold the truth to account in the midst…

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Review:: Death and Night by Roshani Chokshi

By CandidCeillie May 15, 2017March 25, 2018

Before The Star-Touched Queen there was only Death and Night. He was Lord of Death, cursed never to love. She was Night incarnate, destined to stay alone. After a chance…

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