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Review: Hearts, Strings and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins

By CandidCeillie December 20, 2019December 19, 2019

I really wanted to like Hearts, Strings and Other Breakable Things. There were parts that had me wrapped up in it, but overall, this was a real disappointment.

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Review: Final Draft by Riley Redgate

By CandidCeillie June 15, 2018May 10, 2018

The only sort of risk 18-year-old Laila Piedra enjoys in Final Draft is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and…

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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:: 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:: 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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Review:: Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

By CandidCeillie May 29, 2017March 25, 2018

After a shout-out from one of the Internet’s superstar vloggers, Natasha “Tash” Zelenka finds herself and her obscure, amateur web series, Unhappy Families, thrust into the limelight: She’s gone viral…

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Review:: How to Make A Wish by Ashley Herring Blake

By CandidCeillie May 5, 2017March 25, 2018

All seventeen year-old Grace Glasser wants in How to Make A Wish is her own life. A normal life in which she sleeps in the same bed for longer than three…

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Review:: Noteworthy by Riley Redgate

By CandidCeillie May 1, 2017March 25, 2018

It’s the start of Jordan Sun’s junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts in Noteworthy. Unfortunately, she’s an Alto 2, which—in the musical theatre world—is sort…

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Review:: Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman

By CandidCeillie April 24, 2017March 31, 2018

In Girl Out of Water, Anise Sawyer plans to spend every minute of summer with her friends: surfing, chowing down on fish tacos drizzled with wasabi balsamic vinegar, and throwing…

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Review:: Hope in Nautical Dusk by Miri Castor

By CandidCeillie March 13, 2017March 31, 2018

In Hope in Nautical Dusk, the Gift of Twilight flourishes within Opal Charm as winter descends on Dewdrop. Life was already rough before, but Opal’s got new obstacles to face…

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TBT:: The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead

By CandidCeillie February 16, 2017March 31, 2018

In the aftermath of a forbidden moment that rocked Sydney to her core, she finds herself struggling to draw the line between her Alchemist teachings and what her heart is…

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Review:: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

By CandidCeillie December 12, 2016April 9, 2018

Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which…

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Series Saturday:: Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

By CandidCeillie November 26, 2016April 9, 2018

"Two races of vampires walk our world. One, the Moroi, are alive and wield elemental magical. The other, the Strigoi, are undead and evil—feeding on the innocent to survive. Rose…

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Review:: The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

By CandidCeillie November 7, 2016April 9, 2018

Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? Find out in The Star-Touched Queen. Maya is cursed.…

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Review:: The Diviners by Libba Bray

By CandidCeillie October 17, 2016April 9, 2018

In The Diviners, Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City – and she is pos-i-tut-ely thrilled.…

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