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Review: Ghost Walk by Kay Solo

By CandidCeillie September 17, 2018September 15, 2018

Maaya is a teenager who can see ghosts, and she and her three friends get by on the poor streets of Sark by sealing away troublesome spirits under the direction…

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Review: Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova

By CandidCeillie June 4, 2018May 31, 2018

Lula Mortiz feels like an outsider in Bruja Born. Her sister's newfound Encantrix powers have wounded her in ways that Lula's bruja healing powers can't fix, and she longs for…

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Review: Furyborn by Claire Legrand

By CandidCeillie May 28, 2018May 24, 2018

When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic in Furyborn. The…

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Author Interview:: CJ Bedell

By CandidCeillie April 26, 2018January 25, 2018

Hello, dear readers! Today, I'm here to introduce you to CJ Bedell, author of In The Name of Magic from NineStar Press! Tell us a little bit about your publishing process.…

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Review:: The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

By CandidCeillie February 9, 2018January 30, 2018

Camellia Beauregard is a Belle. In the opulent world of Orléans, Belles are revered, for they control Beauty, and Beauty is a commodity coveted above all else. In Orléans, the…

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Review:: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

By CandidCeillie February 2, 2018September 9, 2019

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years…

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Review:: The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman

By CandidCeillie January 8, 2018January 30, 2018

A covert mission A royal demand And a race against time The fourth title in Genevieve Cogman's witty and wonderful The Invisible Library series, The Lost Plot is an action-packed…

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Review:: Chainbreaker by Tara Sim

By CandidCeillie January 2, 2018February 9, 2018

Clock mechanic Danny Hart knows he's being watched. But by whom, or what, remains a mystery. To make matters worse, clock towers have begun falling in India, though time hasn't…

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Review:: The November Girl by Lydia Kang

By CandidCeillie November 17, 2017February 9, 2018

I am Anda, and the lake is my mother. I am the November storms that terrify sailors and sink ships. With their deaths, I keep my little island on Lake…

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Review:: Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel Jose Older

By CandidCeillie November 6, 2017February 9, 2018

Shadowhouse rising Sierra and her friends love their new lives as shadowshapers, making art and creating change with the spirits of Brooklyn. Then Sierra receives a strange card depicting a…

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Review:: The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso

By CandidCeillie October 30, 2017February 9, 2018

In The Tethered Mage's Raverran Empire, magic is scarce and those born with power are strictly controlled -- taken as children and conscripted into the Falcon Army.  Zaira has lived her…

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Review:: Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

By CandidCeillie October 6, 2017February 15, 2018

Love grows such strange things in Wild Beauty. For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, the lush estate gardens that enchant guests from around…

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Review:: Nyxia by Scott Reintgen

By CandidCeillie September 11, 2017March 10, 2018

Emmett Atwater isn't just leaving Detroit; he's leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited him is a mystery, but the number of zeroes on their contract has him boarding their lightship and…

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Review:: Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

By CandidCeillie September 4, 2017March 10, 2018

Girls Made of Snow and Glass is Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber. This ia a feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale as you've never seen it before, tracing the relationship of…

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Review:: Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller

By CandidCeillie August 28, 2017March 10, 2018

Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and…

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