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REVIEW: Not Your Crush's Cauldron

REVIEW: Not Your Crush's Cauldron

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REVIEW: Ex Marks the Spot

Author: Gloria Chao | Pub Date: 31.12.2024 | Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Summary: It’s always been Gemma and her mom against the world. For all she knew, her grandparents and her ties to Taiwanese culture were dead—that is, until a mysterious man shows up to tell her her grandfather left her something in his will. Starting the quest of a lifetime, Gemma hopes to find a life-changing prize. Along the way,…

REVIEW: Ex Marks the Spot

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REVIEW: Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies

Author: Catherine Mack | Pub Date: 30.04.2024 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Summary: Successful author, Eleanor Dash, is on an Italian book tour with some seriously devoted fans, two of her exes, and other authors who share her publisher and some of her connections. However, Connor, the start of Eleanor’s career and past lover, is sure someone is trying to kill him. Now, it’s up to Eleanore to determine…

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REVIEW: Prince of the Palisades

Title: Prince of the Palisades | Author: Julian Winters | Pub Date: 20.08.2024 | Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Summary: Prince Jadon had it all until he overheard something he shouldn’t. Letting his anger get the best of him, he’s recorded speaking out and ends up exiled to the Palisades. There he finds more than just an opportunity to rebuild his image, he finds Reiss. What’s a prince to do when shaping up…

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REVIEW: Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear

Author: Seanan McGuire | Pub Date: 01.07.25 | Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cry count: 3, one lasted for a good five percent of this book. It’s not McGuire if you’re not crying.  This series breaks me and builds me up every time.  Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear is so gorgeous and emotionally devastating in ways that are so hard to describe. I’m going to try for the sake of this review, the beautiful…

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REVIEW: How to Help a Hungry Werewolf

Author: Charlotte Stein | Pub Date: 10.01.24 | Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Summary: Cassie swore she’d never go back to her hometown after being humiliated at her school talent show. However, she’s the one responsible for getting her grandmother’s house in order after her sudden passing. Cassie’s expecting a quick in-and-out operation, but her ex-best friend shows up looking for something only her…

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REVIEW: Bittersweet in the Hollow

Author: Kate Pearsall | Pub Date: 10.10.23 | Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Summary: Rural Caball Hollow is, and always has been, home to the James women, and their small town knows there’s something more to them than meets the eye. Linden has a special gift: the ability to taste others’ emotions. But it doesn’t mean she can explain, or even remember, what happened to her on the summer solstice the year…

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REVIEW: Compass and Blade

Author: Rachel Greenlaw | Pub Date: 02.29.2024 | RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Summary: The sea gives and the sea takes: a lesson Mira knows well as part of the crew who dives the wreckage of ships to help support her island. The laws of nature may just bend to those of man when the Council Watch sets a trap and catches members of the island. To save her father, Mira is willing to do anything, but will her…

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REVIEW: Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

Author: Seanan McGuire | Pub Date: 01.09.24 | Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Summary: When other students learn Antsy could be the key to going home, she must flee the school and hope she can find her way back to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. As she and her friends travel worlds that cut deep and worlds that time forgot, they learn there’s more to change and the Doors than they could have imagined.…

REVIEW: Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

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REVIEW: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord

Author: Celeste Connally | Pub Date: 11.14.23 | Rating: ⭐️⭐️ Summary: Lady Petra has decided to hell with men and declared herself a spinster. Now that the love of her life is gone, she’s going to live the rest of hers doing what she wants. But ballroom gossip says maybe the death of her friend isn’t as clean cut as originally thought, what she wants is to figure out what really happened. Holy…

REVIEW: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord

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REVIEW: 10 Things That Never Happened

Author: Alexis Hall | Pub Date: 10.17.23 | Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Title: 10 Things That Never Happened | Summary: Sam Becker likes his job. Sure it’s not exactly where he pictured himself and his boss is kind of a huge jerk, but his coworkers are pretty mint. Jonathan Forest knew Sam wasn’t the best choice for the job and is working on fixing that when an accident happens during their difficult…

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REVIEW: The Bitter Past

Author: Bruce Borgos | Published: 07.18.23 While not typically fond of historical fiction in general, I liked the feel of this book. It definitely read as an action/thriller spy kind of thing which was a nice change of pace for a small-town cop story. Borgia kicks his series off with a bang, and gives us a potential international incident, spies, and a heartbreaking dual timeline set during the…

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REVIEW: A Fragile Enchantment

Title: A Fragile Enchantment | Author: Allison Saft | Published: 01.02.24 Summary: Magic, mystery, and love entwine in a story that feels like a regency drama. Niamh O’Conchobhair is a dressmaker with the ability to embroider emotions into her creations. Kit Carmine is a prickly prince marrying for duty. However, court secrets, love, and political unrest may show them both just how much more…

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REVIEW: When Oceans Rise

Title: When Oceans Rise | Author: Robin Alvarez | Format: Audiobook | Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Note: Thanks so much to NetGalley, Robin Alvarez, and Tides Collide Publishing for a chance to listen to an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. I’ll preface this with: at first, I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. When Oceans Rise was one I didn’t think…

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REVIEW: When Grumpy Met Sunshine

Title: When Grumpy Met Sunshine | Author: Charlotte Stein | Pub Date: 02.06.24 Summary: Grumpy ex-footballer Alice Harding has been strong armed into selling his memoir, but writing it may be a problem after the reviews he got for the prologue he came up with for a coworker and friend. Sweet ghostwriter Mabel Willicker didn’t know what she was expecting, but it certainly wasn’t everything she…

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REVIEW: Night of the Witch

Author: Sara Raasch and Beth Revis | Published: 10.03.23 Note: a big thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this ebook in exchange for an honest review. All opinions of this work are my own! Summary: As the line survivor of the brutal attack on her village, Fritzi is looking to save her cousin and hide away in the Well, a safe place for witches in…

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